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Grain In Ear |
Silent Holy Stone |
There are many awards at Pusan International Film Festival but those reserved for non-Korean films are in the “New Currents Awards” competition, awarded to the best first and second-time Asian directors. Its summary is below.
New Currents Award : Grain in Ear by Zhang Lu ( China / South Korea ), awarded for “the director’s consistent strength, uncompromising story, and superb acting.”
First Special Mention : Silent Holy Stones by Wanma Caidan ( China ), awarded for the director’s ability to “capture very well the most untrained actors in the film by precise directing and deliver the sense of humanity.”
Second Special Mention : The Unforgiven by Yoon Jong-bin ( South Korea ), awarded for “an impressive directorial debut.”
The five-member New Currents Jury consists of Abbas Kiarostami (Iranian director), Christian Jeune (French head of film department at Cannes Film Festival), Eric Khoo (Singaporean director and producer), Lee Hye-young (Korean actress), and Mika Kaurismaki (Finnish director and producer).
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The Unforgiven |
FIPRESCI Award : The Unforgiven by Yoon Jong-bin ( South Korea ). “Yoon’s independent film offers a fresh insight into the Korean national character with its harrowing depiction of the psychological violence done to young Korean men during their obligatory military service. Shot in intimate, naturalistic style, [the film] suggests that the pent-up violence that explodes in such highly stylized popular entertainment as A Bittersweet Life and Oldboy may have its root in the brutality inflicted by military discipline and an authoritarian social structure—elements which may have passed from Korean society as a whole but which linger on in the life of the barracks.”
The five-member FIPRESCI (International Federation of Film Critics) Jury consists of Dave Kehr ( United States ), Martin Anderson ( Sweden ), Kobari Akiko ( Japan ), Sergey Lavrentiev ( Russia ), and Han Okhi ( South Korea ).
PSB Audience Award : The Unforgiven by Yoon Jong-bin ( South Korea ), awarded to the most popular film chosen by festival audience from New Currents section.
PPP ( Pusan Promotion Plan) Awards :
- Busan Award : Fairy Tale of a Picture Tree by Lee Kwang-mo (South Korea) [who has made the film Spring in My Hometown in 1998] and Heartbreak Pavilion by Sompot Chidgasornpongse (Thailand) [which has Apichatpong Weerasethakul as producer].
- Kodak Award : Paju by Park Chan-ok ( South Korea ) [who has made the film Jealousy Is My Middle Name in 2002].
- MBC Movie Award : Broken Piece of Mirror by Hong Ki-seon ( South Korea ).
- CineClick Asia Award : Opium War by Siddiq Barmak ( Iran ).
- BFC Award : To Get to Heaven First You Have to Die by Djamshed Usmonov ( Tajikistan ).
Thai films which have previously won PPP Awards included: Hi-So by Aditya Assarat, which won the Hubert Balls Fund in 2003 and The Queens of Pattani by Nonzee Nimibutr, which won the Cine Classic Asia Award in 2004.
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