Indian drama “Zubaan,” directed by Mozez Singh, will open the 20th edition of the Busan International Film Festival.
Chinese film, “Mountain Cry” directed by Larry Yang will close the festival, which runs Oct. 1-10. “’Zubaan’ is a film that is able to highlight the past twenty years of BIFF as a festival that has discovered a number of new Asian directors and helped lift them to world class,” said festival co-director Lee Yong-kwan at a press conference in Busan on Tuesday. “’Zubaan’ also demonstrates the current transition and the future of Indian cinema that the world has recently begun paying attention to. “Mountain Cry,” adapted from Ge Shuiping’s award-winning novel of the same title, is a joint venture production by Village Roadshow Pictures Asia and Beijing Hairun Pictures.

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