Script : Kim Young-jo, Jeon Byoung-won
Photographer : Jang Hee-cheol
Editing : Kim Young-jo
Sound : Lee Sang-hyeok, Jeon Jun-bum
Music : Kim Hyoung-bin
Production : Soulfilm Production
Contact :
M-Line Distribution
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Year : 2022
Screening : 2023
DCP, Color, 117 mn, OV korean ENGSUB
French electronic subtitles
European premiere
In May 2017, Kim Jiseok, deputy programmer of the Busan International Film Festival, died from a heart attack at the Cannes Film Festival. This unexpected death was a shock for the whole world of Asian cinema. This documentary was conceived to pay tribute to Kim Jiseok who, as one of the BIFF’s founding members in 1996, created and made the identity of the Busan International Film Festival - the "Hub of Asian films". This movie is filled with touching anecdotes told by the masters of Asian cinema, such as Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Kore-eda Hirokazu, Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Jafar Panahi. His long-time friends and colleagues, movie-directors, actors and managers of the festival, recall their happy memories with this cinema lover. Since his life was deeply linked to the BIFF’s, the movie also gives a glimpse of the festival's history and the torments which they had to face in 2014 and the following years.
