16th Busan International Film Festival information
16th Busan International Film Festival
Opening film
Always
Closing film
Chronicle of My Mother
Location
Busan, South Korea
Hosted by
Uhm Ji-won Ye Ji-won
Festival date
October 6 to October 14, 2011
The 16th Busan International Film Festival was held from October 6 to October 14, 2011 at the Busan Cinema Center and was hosted by actresses Uhm Ji-won and Ye Ji-won, making it the first year to be hosted by two women.[1]
The 16th BIFF also marks the first year for Lee Yong-kwan as the festival director after the retirement of its founding director, Kim Dong-ho and is also the first to take place at the Busan Cinema Center which was opened on September 29, 2011.[2]
A total of 307 films from 70 countries were invited to participate in the festival, with 86 world premieres and 39 international premieres.[3] The event had a total audience of 196,177.
^"In a first, women host Busan festival opener". Korea JoongAng Daily. 23 September 2011. Retrieved 2014-08-30.
^Harrison, Tianzi (17 October 2011). "Curtains close on 16th Busan International Film Festival". Travel Wire Asia. Archived from the original on 2014-09-03. Retrieved 2014-08-30.
^Bae, Hannah (4 October 2011). "Busan International Film Festival 2011: Asia's largest film festival gets a major makeover". CNN. Retrieved 2014-08-30.
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