Song Joong-ki, Park So-dam to host Busan International Film Festival opening ceremony

By PTI

NEW DELHI: South Korean stars Song Joong-ki and Park So-dam will host the opening ceremony of the upcoming Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) on October 6, the organisers introduced Thursday.

The twenty sixth version of Asia’s main film gala shall be held in Busan, South Korea and can run via October 15.

According to the official web site of the BIFF, the socially-distanced opening ceremony will happen on the Busan Cinema Center on the evening of October 6.

Song, finest identified internationally for hit Korean dramas reminiscent of “Descendants of the Sun” and “Sungkyunkwan Scandal”, most just lately performed the titular position in Netflix’s authorized crime sequence “Vincenzo”.

He additionally appeared within the South Korean house Western movie “Space Sweepers”.

Regarded as the primary Korean house blockbuster, the film was additionally launched on Netflix.

Park shot to world prominence because the artful Ki-jung, the youngest daughter of the Kim household, within the broadly celebrated South Korean movie “Parasite”, directed by Bong Joon-ho.

Prior to the a number of Academy Award-winning “Parasite”, she additionally starred in movies like “The Royal Tailor” and “The Silenced”.

Her Korean drama credit embody reveals like “A Beautiful Mind”, “Cinderella and the Four Knights” and “Record of Youth”.

As beforehand introduced, the BIFF will display 223 movies from 70 international locations, of which 92 shall be world premieres and 4 shall be worldwide premieres.

The pageant will open with the world premiere of Im Sang-soo’s “Heaven: To The Land Of Happiness”, which was chosen for final 12 months’s Cannes 2020 label.

The world premiere of Longman Leung’s “Anita”, which is the much-anticipated biopic about late Hong Kong cinema legend Anita Mui, will shut the film gala.

From India, filmmaker Shoojit Sircar’s manufacturing “Deep6” and Aparna Sen’s function “The Rapist” will premiere on the pageant in ‘A Window on Asian Cinema’ part.

“The Rapist”, starring Konkona Sen Sharma, Arjun Rampal and Tanmay Dhanania, is nominated for the celebrated Kim Jiseok Award on the movie gala.

Bangladeshi filmmaker Mostofa Sarwar Farooki can also be nominated for the Kim Jiseok Award for his newest function “No Land’s Man” starring Indian actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui.

This 12 months, the BIFF has launched a brand new part “On Screen”, which is able to showcase extremely anticipated drama sequence that shall be streamed over on-line video streaming platforms.

Yeon Sang-ho’s “Hellbound”, Kim Jin-min’s “My Name”, and “Forbidden”, which was co-directed by Anucha Boonyawatana (Thailand) and Josh Kim (US) are the three dramas which were invited to launch the section.