Busan, Asia's Biggest Film Festival, has a rival
october 12, 2005 bloomberg [...] While moviegoers in the South are treated to 62 world premieres, the silver screen in Pyongyang flickers with «Immense Honor and Happiness of the Nation,» and «Self-Reliance Is the Only Way Out,» to mark six decades under the Kim family, North Korea's state news agency said. In the South, the 10th Busan International Film Festival kicked off amid fireworks, beach parties and a screening of Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien's latest work «Three Times» in front of 5,000 spectators on a massive outdoor screen at the Busan Yachting Center....
Among the record 80 local and foreign stars set to attend the festival are French director Jean-Jacques Arnaud, Hong Kong actor Jackie Chan and Mia Riverton, actress and co-producer of ``Red Doors,'' the winner of this year's New York Tribeca Film Festival.
...«Cinema-goers will watch films impressively depicting the Korean people's pride and honor of enjoying a worthwhile life under the benevolent care of the party and the true picture of the mother party looking after the destiny and future of the people,» according to the state-run Korea Central News Agency.
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