Ari Aster, Choi Min-shik, Jeon Do-yeon, Lee Sun-gyun, Lee Ha-nui, Gong Myung, Jang Seo-hee, Yu Jun-sang, and Ga Jin-dong were named in the lineup.
This year, director Ari Aster of the opening film 'Beau Is Afraid' will open the door. On the 29th, a master class will be held at the Korea Manhwa Museum at 4:00 p.m. following a movie screening at 1:00 p.m. It raises the audience's expectations for the story that director Ari Aster, who is called 'Horror Master' and has secured many fans in Korea, will tell.
Director Makoto Tetsuka's master class will be held at Fantastic Cube, Bucheon City Hall, on June 30th at 4pm. A master class by director Kazuya Konaka, who is well known for his 'Ultraman' series, will be held on July 5th at 2pm at CGV Picnic.
There are also mega talks with actors representing Korean films. On the 30th, at 6:00 pm at the Cultural Hall of Hyundai Department Store's Jungdong Branch, an exhibition of Choi Min-sik, the main character of this year's actor special exhibition, will be held. We will have time to listen to the story of Choi Min-sik, an actor who led the heyday of Korean cinema.
Actress Jeon Do-yeon visits BIFAN as 'B My Guest' with director Byun Seong-hyun. On the 1st of next month, at 2:00 pm in the Hyundai Department Store’s Jungdong branch, we are planning to tell the story behind the movie <Gilboksoon>.
Actors Lee Seon-gyun, Lee Ha-nui, Gong Myung, Bae Yu-ram and director Lee Won-seok of 'Killing Romance' will hold a GV screening with fans at the Korea Manhwa Museum at 7:30 pm on the 1st of next month under the title 'Night of the Living Fans'. DJ and producer 250 (Lee Oh-gong) will also meet with K-Pop fans at 1:00 pm on the same day at the Korea Manhwa Museum in a mega talk called 'Finding Mulberry'. On the same day, at 2:00 PM, at Solan Art Hall, director Jang Hang-joon of 'Rebound' and the cast will prepare 'Visiting Neighborhood Cinema'.
A variety of domestic and foreign guests are scheduled to visit the GV screenings. Director Shimizu Takashi, who is synonymous with J-horror, and lead actress Tomoko Hoshi will join the audience with the closing film, Everyone's Song. Actor and director Ga Ji-dong has a GV for his directorial debut film 'Black Education', starring actors Joo Heon-yang, Song Baek-wi, and Chae Beom-hee, and Indian film maestro director Anurak Kasiap and lead actor Rahul Bhatt for 'Kennedy'. Along with this, director Amanda Nell Yu of 'Tiger Girl' and foreign guests such as Robert Groze, Tak Sakaguchi, Yudai Yamaguchi, Yu-Lun Yang, Takamasa Oe, Eiji Uchida, Heon-Yang Joo, Shinzo Katayama, Christopher Murray, and Ho Chuk-Tin will participate.
Domestic guests include Go Won-hee, Kwon Da-ham, Kim Geum-soon, Kim Hye-na, Nam Yeon-woo, So Joo-yeon, Oh Tae-kyung, Oh Min-ae, Lee Ju-seung, Lee Pil-mo, Jang Seo-hee, and Jeong Ha-dam. Yoo Jun-sang, Eum Moon-seok, and Jang Dong-yoon, who present their works as directors rather than actors, and Dun Mills and Hwang Chi-yeol, who have transformed from musicians to actors, are also listed in the GV lineup.
On the 1st of next month, at Bucheon Art Bunker B39, 'Ghostdam Campus' will present a 'Ghostdam Class Class' with genre novel writers. At 2:00 p.m., Seo Mi-ae, Song Si-woo, Jung Hae-yeon, Hong Seon-joo, Lee Eun-young, and Han Sae-ma will hold a book talk under the theme of "Destroyers' Night, Thriller Writers Talk about Female Villains." Starting at 4:30 p.m., author Seo Mi-ae, the queen of mystery novels, delivers her creative know-how under the title of 'Making a work with ghost stories'. The 'Genre Literature Mini Book Fair' with Golden Eggplant and Butterfly Club publishers can also be found at 'Story Square' from the 1st to the 3rd of next month. During the same period, 'XR Talk' will be held at Bucheon Art Bunker B39 MMH Hall with XR content experts from home and abroad. From directors of this year's Beyond Reality screenings to officials from overseas XR film festivals, they are expected to attend.
The 27th BIFAN will be held in Bucheon City from the 29th to the 9th of next month.
Reporter Kim Se-ah, Ten Asia haesmik@tenasia.co.kr