How BIFF’s New Currents Launched Bong Joon

Bong Joon Ho ’s unique story-telling talents were first revealed to the world via the Busan International Film Festival’s New Currents award, some 12 years before the Korean filmmaker’s dark and dystopian drama Parasite picked up four Oscars and became a global box office sensation.

Jia Zhangke ’s career was similarly still in its formative stages when his talents, too, were recognized by BIFF’s New Currents, a decade before the Chinese auteur was thrust into the global spotlight when his gripping rural drama Still Life won the Golden Lion at Venice in 2006

Bong Joon Ho ’s unique story-telling talents were first revealed to the world via the Busan International Film Festival’s New Currents award, some 12 years before the Korean filmmaker’s dark and dystopian drama