A Tour Centering on the Busan International Film Festival

Busan

Busan Cinema Center

International film festivals serve as a place for the world's leading film directors and actors to gather and discuss all things cinema. Korea’s representative film festival, Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), is held in October. During this time, domestic and international filmmakers head to Busan. We introduce places where you can truly enjoy the BIFF, which started in 1996 in Nampo-dong Theater District, Busan.

Nampo-dong BIFF Street

Movie street in Nampo-dong

It is a film and culture street created in Nampo-dong, the heart of the BIFF. There are four theaters in this area alone. You can tell that it is a movie street from the record of Korea's first film producer, Chunsa Na Woon-gyu, and the handprint blocks from film giants stretching out along the sidewalk.

Busan Museum of Movies

A hands-on exhibition facility with the theme of film

As an experiential exhibition facility with a movie theme, you can see movie-related exhibitions as if you are exploring the story of a movie. You can watch the mission video on the three-sided screen and experience a virtual reality (VR) movie looking around Busan from the sky. There are facilities such as video hall, VR zone, trick eye zone, cinema studio, film history street, and masterpiece plaza.

Busan Cinema Center

Red carpet venue of the BIFF

It is a video complex cultural space where the BIFF is held. There are theaters of different sizes, such as the Cinematheque and the Haneul Theater. Various programs such as screening commercial and independent films, exhibitions related to films, and meetings with filmmakers are held. Dubbed “Dureraum,” which is a combination of Dure and Raum, it means “getting together and having fun.”

CGV Centum City

BIFF screening hall equipped with state-of-the-art facilities

It is one of the screening halls of the BIFF. With 10 screens and a total of 2,152 seats, it is equipped with state-of-the-art screens such as 4DX, SCREENX, and Starium Hall. It also operates Cine de Chef where meals are served before and during movie screenings. This hall is popular because the seats are sofas or mattresses, allowing viewers to lie down and enjoy the film as if they were at home.

Busan Cinema Street

A variety of attractions through movies

Located along Haeundae Beach with a view of Gwangandaegyo Bridge, it is decorated with movie posters and statues of films that featured Busan. It is composed of themes such as the 10 million audience movie zone, the animation zone, and the Haeundae movie zone. In Santorini Square, handprints of actors representing Korea, such as Hwang Jung-min, Lee Byung-hun, Kim Hye-soo, and Seol Kyung-gu, are hung on the walls.