Chinese language director Zhang Yimou has been named jury president of the primary competitors part of the Busan Worldwide Movie Competition (October 6-15).
At his facet, Chinese language filmmaker Bi Gan, whose 2025 movie Resurrection performed within the Busan competitors final yr; Korean actress Moon Choi, who produced and starred in Bedford Parkscreened on the competition this yr; Japanese director Kei Ishikawa (A pale view of the hills); Korean director July Jung (Dora), Vietnamese producer Tran Thi Bich Ngoc (Youthful pores and skin) and Kazakh actress Samal Yeslyamova (Ayka).
The jury will take a look at the beforehand introduced collection of 13 function movies and current awards in 5 classes: Greatest Movie, Greatest Director, Particular Jury Prize, Greatest Actor and Creative Contribution, with a complete prize cash of $80,000 (KRW 110 million).
The Busan Movie Competition launched a full-fledged competitors part for the primary time final yr, with Zhang Lu’s Chinese language title Gloaming in Luomu successful the Busan Award for Greatest Movie. Following adjustments to the Oscar standards for Greatest Worldwide Function Movie, launched in Could this yr, movies that win the Busan Greatest Movie award will mechanically be submitted to the Greatest Worldwide Function Movie class.
The competition additionally introduced the juries for its Imaginative and prescient – Asia part, with the NETPAC jury comprising Nina Kochelyaeva, Matthew Poon and Lee Dongha; and the FIPRESCI jury together with Ma Xingxu, Teresa Vena and Roh Chul-Hwan.
Moreover, the BIFF Patronage Award jury within the function documentary competitors consists of Rintu Thomas, Kim Taeil and Zhou Hao. The Sonje Prize jury consists of Anuparna Roy, Abinash Bikram Shah and Lee Ranhee.