Busan International Film Festival FORUM BIFF

Asian Cinema Forum

Gender/Sexuality as Esthetic Impetus in South and Southeast Asian Cinema

Host: BIFF / Venue: Minseok Theater, Centum Campus, Dongseo University (B1F)

* Simultaneous interpretation(Kor/Eng) service provided

* It's possible to particiapte in every forum without forum badge.

10/9(Wed) 10:20~10:30 Opening Ceremony: Welcoming Speech and Opening Address Jay JEON(BIFF Festival Director)
10:30~12:30 Keynote Speech: The Politics of Forms and Forces – Trinh T. Minh-ha (Film Director, UC Berkeley) * Hand-printing event is held after the keynote speech Moderator: NAM Inyoung (Dongseo Univ.)
14:00~15:40 Session1 Gaze and Memories – Asia’s Leading Women Filmmakers Moderator: JOO Youshin (Youngsan Univ.) / Panel: PARK Hyun Seon (Sogang Univ.), PARK Mi Young (Hanshin Univ.)
Yasmin Ahmad, Changing the Landscape of Malaysian Cinema Through Love, Hope and Humanism Adrian Lee Yuen Beng (Universiti Sains Malaysia)
"You can See Without Looking": The Elements Trilogy of Deepa Mehta Shohini Ghosh (Jamia Millia Islamia)
‘When the antonym of the stereotyped is the poetic’: the subjectivity of the margined and the language of the interval CHO HyeYoung (Film Scholar)
16:00~18:00 Session2 Considering Locality of Queerness Moderator: KIM Sunah (Researcher of Korea Media Rating Board) / Panel: KIM Ungsan (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor), LEE Hyuksang (Director, Diaspora Film Festival Programmer)
Bóng Eroticism in Contemporary Queer Vietnamese Cinema Nguyen Tan Hoang (UC San Diego)
Notes on Socio-Political Sexploitation José B. Capino (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Siam Love Story: The Thai Queer Tilt to Asia Dredge Kang (UC San Diego)
Love after/with Death: Queering Ghostly Temporality in Malila: The Farewell Flower (2017) KIM Kyungtae (Jiseok Film Institute)