16th Busan International Film Festival to Close Friday

Published on 2011/10/14 | Source

The 16th Busan International Film Festival will wrap up in Seoul Friday to end its nine-day run.

At this year's festival, the films "Mourning", by Iranian Morteza Farshbaf, and "Nino", by Loy Arcenas, won the New Current's award.

The Flash Forward award, which is given to non-Asian directors, was awarded to Italian Guido Lombardi's "LA-BAS. A Criminal Education".

The closing ceremony of the festival will be held from half-past-six in the evening. Emcees will be director Jang Jin and actress Ryu Hyun-kyung. From eight in the evening, the closing piece, "Chronicle of My Mother", directed by Japanese Harada Masato, will be screened