The 19th Busan International Film Festival was held in South Korea from October 2 to October 11, 2014, and was hosted by Ken Watanabe and Moon So-ri. A total of 312 films from 79 countries were screened with total attendance of 226,473. Hong Kong director Ann Hui receives the Asian Filmmaker of the Year award. The closing film was Gangster Payday.
Program
Opening
Paradise in Service - Doze Niu (Taiwan)
Gala Presentation
Coming Home - Zhang Yimou (China) The President - Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Georgia/France/United Kingdom/Germany) Revivre - Im Kwon-taek (South Korea) The Golden Era - Ann Hui (China/Hong Kong, China)
A Window on Asian Cinema
Dearest - Peter Chan (Hong Kong, China/China) Haider - Vishal Bhardwaj (India) Song of the Phoenix - Wu Tianming (China) Bwaya - Francis Xavier Pasion (Philippines) Gentle - Le-Van Kiet (Vietnam/United States) The Continent - Han Han (China/Hong Kong, China) Suntali - Bhaskar Dhungana (Nepal) Sun Station - Saman Salur (Iran) Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2 - Johnnie To (Hong Kong, China) Fires on the Plain - Shinya Tsukamoto (Japan) Over Your Dead Body - Takashi Miike (Japan) Flapping in The Middle of Nowhere - Nguyen Hoang Diep (Vietnam/France/Germany/Norway) The Furthest End Awaits - Chiang Hsiu-chiung (Japan/Taiwan/Korea) So Be It - Kongdej Jaturanrasmee (Thailand) Tokyo Tribes - Sion Sono (Japan) W - Chonlasit Upanigkit (Thailand) Taksu - Kiki Sugino (Japan/Indonesia/Thailand/United States) A Corner of Heaven - Zhang Miaoyan (China/France) Sharing - Makoto Shinozaki (Japan) Second Life of Thieves - Woo Ming Jin (Malaysia/Netherlands/Switzerland) The Inseminator - Bui Kim Quy (Vietnam) Finding Fanny - Homi Adajania (India) Margarita with a Straw - Shonali Bose (India) The Monk - The Maw Naing (Myanmar/Czech Republic) Trench 143 - Narges Abyar (Iran) Black Coal, Thin Ice - Diao Yinan (China/Hong Kong, China) Labour of Love - Adityavikram Sengupta (India) A Few Cubic Meters of Love - Jamshid Mahmoudi (Iran/Afghanistan) Red Amnesia - Wang Xiaoshuai (China) Still the Water - Naomi Kawase (Japan) Fah-Gam-Toh - Parm Rangsi (Thailand) Kabukicho Love Hotel - Ryūichi Hiroki (Japan) The Sacred Arrow - Pema Tseden (China) The Move - Marat Sarulu (Kyrgyzstan) Goli Soda - Vijay Milton (India) Our Family - Yuya Ishii (Japan) My Man - Kazuyoshi Kumakiri (Japan) We Have a Guest - Mohammad Mehdi Asgarpour (Iran) Zahir - Sidhartha Siva (Iran) Sensitive Floor - Kamal Tabrizi (India) Fantasia - Wang Chao (China) Partners in Crime - Chang Jung-Chi (Taiwan) The Owners - Adilkhan Yerzhanov (Kazakhstan) Daughter..Mother.. Daughter - Panahbarkhoda Rezaee (Iran) Men Who Save the World - Liew Seng Tat (Malaysia/Netherlands/Germany/France) Dukhtar - Afia Nathaniel (Pakistan/United States/Norway) The Coffin in the Mountain - Xin Yukun (China) Teacher's Diary - Nithiwat Tharathorn (Thailand) Taxi and Telephone - Ernest Abdyjaparov (Kyrgyzstan/Germany) Tales - Rakhshan Bani-E'temad (Iran) Ant Story - Mostofa Sarwar Farooki (Bangladesh) Exit - Chienn Hsiang (Taiwan/Hong Kong, China) Memories on Stone - Shawkat Amin Korkiv (Kurd/Germany) Journey to the West - Tsai Ming-liang (France/Taiwan) 2030 - Minh Nguyen-Vo (Vietnam) One Summer - Yang Yishu (China)
New Currents
Mariquina - Milo Sogueco (Philippines) Jalal's Story - Abu Shahed Emon (Bangladesh) We Will Be Ok - Baek Jae-ho (South Korea) End of Winter - Kim Dae-hwan (South Korea) Ghadi - Amin Dora (Lebanon/Qatar) Don't Say that Word - Takuma Sato (Japan) Nezha - Li Xiaofeng (China) What's the Time in Your World? - Safi Yazdanian (Iran) (Sex) Appeal - Wang Wei-ming (Taiwan) Sunrise - Partho Sen-Gupta (India/France) 13 - Hooman Seyedi (Iran) The Face of the Ash - Shakhwan Idrees (Iraq)
Korean Cinema Today - Panorama
Han River - Lee Moo-young (South Korea) Alive - Park Jung-bum (South Korea) Thread of Lies - Lee Han (South Korea) Venus Talk - Kwon Chil-in (South Korea) Haemoo - Shim Sung-bo (South Korea) Love Never Fails - Min Byung-hun (South Korea) The Pirates - Lee Seok-hoon (South Korea) The Admiral: Roaring Currents - Kim Han-min (South Korea) The Tenor – Lirico Spinto - Kim Sang-man (South Korea) Mother - Bong Joon-ho (South Korea) Half - Kim Se-yeon (South Korea) Kundo: Age of the Rampant - Yoon Jong-bin (South Korea) Hill of Freedom - Hong Sang-soo (South Korea) Timing - Min Kyung-jo (South Korea) Gyeongju - Zhang Lu (South Korea) One on One - Kim Ki-duk (South Korea) A Girl at My Door - July Jung (South Korea) A Hard Day - Kim Seong-hun (South Korea) Daughter - Ku Hye-sun (South Korea) The Target - Chang (South Korea) The Fatal Encounter - Lee Jae-kyoo (South Korea)