Alfonso Cuaron to Make First Korea Visit at Busan as Festival Also Spotlights European Women+ Filmmakers — SkimNews
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- Alfonso Cuarón makes his first-ever Korea visit at BIFF, appearing at the opening ceremony and sitting for an extended conversation about his camera language, with an IMAX screening of his 2013 film "Gravity" co-written with his son
- Jonás Cuarón's "Campeón Gabacho" — produced by Alfonso Cuarón, Jonás and Gabriela Rodriguez under their Esperanto Filmoj banner — gets its Asian premiere in BIFF's World Cinema section, followed by a post-screening Q&A
- BIFF launches the "Europe! Voices of Women+ in Film" program with the European Film Promotion, spotlighting nine officially selected films from European women and genderqueer filmmakers, four of which are feature debuts
- May el-Toukhy's "Woman Unknown" anchors the program after becoming the first Danish woman filmmaker to win the Venice Golden Lion, alongside Sandra Wollner's Cannes Un Certain Regard winner "Everytime" and Jacqueline Lentzou's Venice Horizons Best Director winner "A Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra"
- Five directors from the program — el-Toukhy, Judith Godrèche, Margherita Ferrari, Lentzou and Konstantina Kotzamani — travel to Busan, with Godrèche also leading a Cine Class session titled "Women, Rewriting the Screen"
- BIFF programmer Seo Seunghee said the European women directors' prominence among the strongest titles under consideration — in both volume and quality — reflected a generational shift in European cinema
Why it matters: BIFF's EFP-backed program gives nine women+ filmmakers — including Venice and Cannes winners — direct Asian distribution visibility, while the simultaneous debut of four feature debuts signals BIFF is positioning itself as a launchpad for the next generation rather than just a showcase of established names.
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