Opening and closing films for 2019 Busan International Film Festival
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Asia's biggest film festival, the Busan International Film Festival, is set to kick off next month for a ten-day run.
Around three hundred films will be showcased at the festival,... and our Choi Si-young takes a closer look at the opening and closing films for this year.
This year's opening film at the Busan International Film Festival is 'The Horse Thieves. Roads of Time' directed by Yerlan Nurmukhambetov and Lisa Takeba.
The film starts with a breadwinner going to market to sell his horse but instead getting killed.
This film from Kazakhstan is similar to classic American Western films.
"This film is narrated from an omnipresent point of view,..."
Closing film is 'Moonlit Winter' by South Korean director Lim Dae-hyung.
The film tells a story of love once lost but recaptured afterwards between a mother and her daughter.

The festival will kick off on October third, and to commemorate the 100th
anniversary of the Korean film industry, ten major Korean films will premiere at the festival.
Choi Si-young, Arirang News.
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