The 31st Busan International Film Festival in South Korea has announced its Vision award winners at a ceremony in a city hotel ballroom. The edition, which opened on 6 October and wraps on 15 October with the main competition prizes, screened 247 films, six more than last year.
The big winner of the Vision Asia strand is Zogsool, directed by Byamba Sakhya, which collected four honours: the NETPAC Award, the FIPRESCI critics' prize, a Hylife Vision Award and the Vision of Jiseok Award.
India also stood out. Selvi, Sailesh Rathnakumar's Tamil-language debut, produced by and starring Anjali Patil as a migrant home-care nurse, won a Hylife Vision Award and the Taipei Film Commission Award. Shashank Walia's Birds in the Dark earned the Songwon Vision Audience Award for Asia, worth 10 million won.
On the Korean side, Jeong Jihye's Full Moon took the CGV Award, the K-Movie Award and the audience prize, while Park Songyeol's Beyond Love's Horizon won the KBS Independent Film Award and the Critic b Award. Performers Won Hyang-ra and Kang Seung-ho were named Actors of the Year.
