Zogsool Tops Busan Vision Awards With Four Prizes — SkimNews
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- Sakhya Byamba's "Zogsool" took four prizes at the Vision Awards — the Netpac Award, Fipresci Award, Vision of Jiseok Award, and a shared Hylife Vision Award with Sailesh Rathnakumar's "Selvi," which separately won the Taipei Film Commission Award
- Jeong Jihye's "Full Moon" led Korean titles with three wins: the CGV Award, the K-Movie Award, and the Songwon Vision Audience Award – Korea
- Park Songyeol's "Beyond Love's Horizon" won the KBS Independent Film Award and the Critic b Award, with Won Hyangra taking one of two Actor of the Year honors for her work in the film; Kang Seung-ho claimed the other for "Cosmic Trace"
- Central Asian titles punched above the headline: Darkhan Tulegenov's "The Cord" won the International Film Festival of India – Vision Asia Award, Chen Jianying's "There Will Be Snow" took the Bishkek International Film Festival-Central Asia Cinema Award, and Arvin Belarmino's "Ria" won the Heart of Eurasia Award
- The 31st edition of BIFF opened Oct. 6 and closes Oct. 15, with its industry arm, the Asian Contents & Film Market, running Oct. 10–13
- Audience prizes went to Shashank Walia's "Birds in the Dark" (Songwon Vision Audience Award – Asia), Im Yeonjeong's "Recovery" (Documentary Audience Award), and Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi's "La Bola Negra" (Flash Forward Audience Award)
Why it matters: "Zogsool's" four-prize sweep — the largest haul at this year's Vision Awards, the festival's showcase for emerging Asian cinema — establishes it as the breakout title of the ceremony, while three Central Asian films taking dedicated regional prizes underlines Central Asia's outsized presence on a slate that also features Korean and Mongolian front-runners.
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