Tony Leung Chiu-wai, the Hong Kong star of “In The Mood For Love” and Marvel’s “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” has been named Asian Filmmaker of the Year by the Busan International Film Festival.
Leung will collect his award at the festival’s opening ceremony on Oct.
5.
2022.The festival will open with a screening of “Scent of Wind” by Hagi Mohaghegh.
The Iranian director previously won the 2015 New Currents competition in Busan with his second feature “Immortal.”The festival will close with “A Man,” from Japan’s Ishikawa Kei.
The title premiered this week at the Venice film festival in the Orrizonti section.Busan organizers said that the festival will play a total of 243 films (features and shorts) from 71 countries and territories.
These include 89 world premieres and 13 international premieres.After two years of disruptions the festival will operate largely normally.
This includes a red carpet opening ceremony,
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