“Traumland” in the running for the Audience Award in Busan
The Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) is presenting four Swiss feature-length films including “Traumland” by Petra Volpe, which is competing for the new Audience Award. Multiple Swiss filmmakers will be present at the screening of their films.
01.10.2013
The 18th edition of the Busan International Film Festival (October 3-12, 2013), one of the most important cinematic events in Asia, has selected four feature-length films – two fiction and two documentaries – for its official programme.
Is an Audience Award imminent for “Traumland”?
Petra Volpe’s feature-length fiction film Traumland has been nominated among 11 films for the “Flash Forward Audience Award” with 20,000 USD being awarded for the first time this year. The film, celebrating its international premiere in Busan in the presence of the director Petra Volpe, was chosen from the 31 films in the “Flash Forward” section to compete for the “Flash Forward Audience Award”. This section is reserved for first and second arthouse films made by non-Asiatic filmmakers. “Traumland” is also part of the Opening Doors programme, consisting of 23 European films and founded by European Film Promotion (EFP) with the support of the national promotion agencies in Europe, of which SWISS FILMS is a member.
Two documentaries and one coproduction
Two documentary feature-length films are also being presented at the Busan festival: “La clé de la chambre à lessive” (The Laundry Room) by Frédéric Florey and Floriane Devigne, winner of the Grand Prix for the best Swiss feature-length film at the Visions du Reél festival in Nyon 2013, as well as “Vaters Garten” (Father’s Garden) by Peter Liechti, awarded in Berlin, Nyon, Linz and Gilching. Frédéric Florey and Floriane Devigne are making the trip to the South Korean metropolitan city to accompany the screening of their film. The Swiss coproduction “Via Castellana Bandiera” by the Italian Emma Dante (coproduction Ventura Film, Meride), which won awards on five occasions at the Mostra in Venice, is also being screened in Busan.
Important Asiatic Platform
The Busan International Film Festival is among the four most important Asian film festivals, alongside those of Hong Kong, Shanghai and Tokyo. Parallel with the event, The Asian Film Market is also taking place (October 7-10), which brings together professionals from all over the world. European Film Promotion is present with a booth in order to encourage the distribution of European films throughout Asia.
Geneva, October 1, 2013