Summary Biggest prizes went to "Pascha" by Ahn Seonkyoung and "Remote Control" by Sakhya Byamba.
SEOUL (AP) - Movies from South Korea and Mongolia have won $30,000 New Currents Awards for emerging filmmakers at Asia s largest film festival.
Busan International Film Festival organizers said Saturday that the festival s biggest prizes went to "Pascha" by South Korean director Ahn Seonkyoung and "Remote Control" by Mongolia s Sakhya Byamba. It s the first time a Mongolian movie entered and won the competition in the festival s 18 years.
The awards, given to first- or second-time Asian directors, show the festival s efforts to discover and support the region s new talents.
The organizers said "Pascha," an unusual love story between a 40-year-old woman and a 19-year-old man, won the jury s heart with its highly original expression. They said "Remote Control" neatly portrayed tensions between reality and fiction.
The jury, led by Iranian director Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, picked "Transit," Hannah Espia s drama about Filipino migrant workers in Israel, as a special mention.
The 10-day festival that ended Saturday drew more than 200,000 visitors for the second straight year, even as a rare October typhoon forced the organizers to reschedule some events and close outdoor booths by corporate sponsors four days before the festival drew to a close.
The fair closed Saturday evening with "The Dinner," South Korean director Kim Dong-hyun s independent feature. The festival, which opened Oct. 3 with "Vara: A Blessing," a Bhutanese drama about classical South Indian dance, screened about 300 movies from all corners of the world.
