Basu's 'Barfi' selected for Busan International Film Festival

03 September, 2012

A tweet from Director Anurag Basu informed that his film 'Barfi', along with being awarded U-certificate from the Indian Censor Board, has also been selected for the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) to be held in October in South Korea.

IN BARFI, Ranbir Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra and Ileana D'Cruz play the lead roles. Ileana D'Cruz is making a debut in Bollywood with this film. The film is most likely to be released in the second week of September.

According to the organisers' website, the 17th BIFF (Oct. 4-13) has finalized jurors for Flash Forward section, a competitive section for films by non-Asian directors. The website informs that the anchor of Japanese Independent Cinema, Wakamatsu Koji, has been selected as the recipient of ‘Asian Filmmaker of the Year Award’.

BIFF is held annually since 1996 in South Korea and is deemed a premier film festival in Asia. The festival has a section called 'A Window on Asian Cinema' that showcases new and/or representative films by the talented Asian filmmakers with their diverse points of view and style. Also, during the festival a retrospective and special showcase of films of a certain notable director or genre are organized.

The 16th BIFF was held on October 6–14, 2011, in which 307 films from 70 countries were screened in which 11,268 people participated including the press.