From RM: Right People, Wrong Place to Hellbound 2: All films & series to be screened at 29th Busan International Film Festival

The 29th Busan International Film Festival announced on September 3, 2024, the Korean and World cinema films and series that will screen at the festival through their official social media pages and the official website. The 29th Busan International Film Festival is set to commence on Wednesday, October 2, 2024, and conclude on Friday, October 11, 2024.

RM's solo documentary, titled RM: Right People, Wrong Place, by Lee Seok-jun, is set to debut in the Open Cinema section of the 29th Busan International Film Festival. The dark fantasy thriller series Hellbound season 2 will also premiere at the 29th Busan International Film Festival.

Full list of 29th Busan International Film Festival screening: Hellbound 2, RM: Right People, Wrong Place, My Mister, & more

The 2024 Busan International Film Festival will showcase South Korean films like Revolver, The Killers, Somebody, 12.12: The Day, and more. Uprising, helmed by Kim Sang-man, will be screened as the opening film, while Spirit World, directed by Eric Khoo, will be screened as the closing film.

Gala Presentation

Caught by the Tides
Cloud
Grand Tour
Serpent′s Path (2024)
Visiting Hours

Icons

A Traveler's Needs
Anora
Emilia Perez
Here Children Do Not Play Together
It′s Not Me
Limonov: The Ballad of Eddie
May I Say? Chapter 2
Meeting with Pol Pot
Misericordia
Phantosmia
Suspended Time
The Empire
The Room Next Door
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Three Friends
Youth (Hard Times)
Youth (Homecoming)

Jiseok

Aimitagai
Deal at the Border
I Am Love
Motherland
So it goes
Traveling Alone
Village Rockstars 2
Yen and Ai-Lee

A Window on Asian Cinema

All We Imagine as Light
Black Dog
Blue Sea
Blue Sun Palace
Crocodile Tears
Desert of Namibia
Don't Cry, Butterfly
How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies
In Retreat
Land of Broken Hearts
Mongrel
My Favourite Cake
Pierce
Pooja, Sir
Regretfully at Dawn
Saba
Sad Letters of an Imaginary Woman
Santosh
Second Chance
Soldier of Love
State of Statelessness
Super Happy Forever
The Colors Within
The Hearing
The Witness
To Kill a Mongolian Horse
Travesty
Viet and Nam

New Currents

Abel
As the River Goes By
For Rana
Kaneko′s Commissary
MA – Cry of Silence
Montages of a Modern Motherhood
Tale of the Land
The Height of the Coconut Trees
The Land of Morning Calm
Waterdrop

Korean Cinema Today - Panorama

12.12: The Day
Method Acting
Revolver
Somebody
The Killers
You Are the Apple of My Eye

Korean Cinema Today - Vision

Fragment
Humming
Inserts
Journey to Face Them
Kike Will Hit a Home Run
Merely Known as Something Else
Red Nails
Spring Night
Tango at Dawn
The face of Hwanhee
The Final Semester
The Waves of Winter

Busan International Film Festival (Images via Instagram/@busanfilmfest)

World Cinema

A Real Pain Jessica
And Their Children After Them
April
Armand
Dad Croaked on Saturday
Dog on Trial
Dying
Familia
Ghostlight
Gloria!
Grey Bees
Harvest
Julie Keeps Quiet
Kill the Jockey
Kneecap
Love
Of Dogs and Men
Sasquatch Sunset
Souleymane′s Story
The Damned
The Girl with the Needle
The Other Way Around
The Quiet Son
The Sparrow in the Chimney
There's Still Tomorrow
Universal Language
Vermiglio
When the Light Breaks
Wild Diamond

Flash Forward

Anywhere Anytime
Do I Know You From Somewhere?
Drowning Dry
Ghost Trail
Holy Cow
Memories of a Burning Body
Mr. K
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
Paul and Paulette Take a Bath
The End
The Village Next to Paradise

Wide Angle - Korean Short Film Competition

By Hand
Dive
Driver
Escape Velocity
Just Another Film
Lost Target
MICHELLE
Night Walkers
The Dream with Sofa
Variation
WavyWavy
Yurim

Wide Angle - Asian Short Film Competition

A Garden in Winter
Ash Valley: Janyl
Blue Boy
Lao San
Lucky Dog
Shoredust
Suintrah
The Black Dog
The Last Day
threefor100: or the thrifting of love and various other things

Korean Cinema Today - Special Premiere

A Girl with Closed Eyes
A Normal Family
Bogota: City of the Lost
DIRTY MONEY
Hear Me: Our Summer

Wide Angle - Short Film Showcase (BIFF)

Magic Candies

Wide Angle - Documentary Competition

A Fly on the Wall
Ainu Puri
Another Home
At the Park
Every Single Dot
Gingerbread for Her Dad
K-Number
Ms. Hu′s Garden
The First Responders
Works and Days

Wide Angle - Documentary Showcase

Black Box Diaries
Dahomey
Ernest Cole: Lost and Found
Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989
Landscape Drifting
Lula
Mother′s Household Ledger
My Stolen Planet
No Other Land
SAVE THE GAME — PARK Yunjin
So Long — Guillaume BRAC
Soundtrack to a Coup d′Etat
The Last of the Sea Women
The Other One
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
The Sense of Violence
XiXi

Open Cinema

Civil War
Flow
Ghost Cat Anzu
I Am the Secret in Your Heart
Kalki 2898 AD
RM: Right People, Wrong Place
The Solitary Gourmet

Midnight Passion

Do Not Enter
Ghost Train
Night Call
The Damned
The Shameless
The Substance

On Screen

Beyond Goodbye
Born for the Spotlight
Dongjae, the Good or the Bastard
Gangnam B-Side
Hellbound Season 2
Way Back Love

Special Program in Focus - Teen Spirit, Teen Movie

City of Wind
Fishbone
Girls Will Be Girls
Happyend
I Am the Secret in Your Heart
My Sunshine
Swimming in a Sand Pool
The Uniform
Tiger Stripes

Special Program in Focus - Miguel GOMES, a filmmaker of Joyful Melancholy

Arabian Nights Vol. I - The Restless One
Arabian Nights Vol. II - The Desolate One
Arabian Nights Vol. III - The Enchanted One
Grand Tour
Our Beloved Month of August
Tabu
The Face You Deserve
The Tsugua Diaries

Special Program in Focus - In Memory of Lee Sun-kyun

A Hard Day
Land of Happiness
My Mister
Our Sunhi
Paju
Parasite

Special Screening

Walking in the Movies

Meanwhile, a section paying homage to the late actor Lee Sun-kyun, titled Special Program in Focus - In Memory of Lee Sun-kyun, will be held at the Busan International Film Festival. It will showcase some of his popular films and series, including Parasite, My Mister, and more.

The Busan International Film Festival will held from October 2 to 11, 2024, in Busan.

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