Busan International Film Festival has revealed the 14 titles for its first-ever Competition section, including 10 world premieres from across Asia.

The newly launched strand will comprise films from Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, Iran, Tajikistan and Sri Lanka. Five of the titles are directorial debuts.

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Titles include Gloaming In Luomu , the latest from Korean-Chinese auteur Zhang Lu, who played in Competition at the Berlinale in 2023 The Shadowless Tower and at Locarno in 2014 with Gyeongju, and won Cannes’ ACID award and BIFF’s New Currents award with Grain In Ear in 2005.

Spying Stars marks the first feature in seven years from Sri Lanka’s Vimukthi Jayasundara, who won Cannes’ Golden Camera with The Forsaken Land in 2005, was selected f

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