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Jun Sato / Getty Images The 31st Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) has confirmed seven jurors for its Competition section, with Chinese director Zhang Yimou serving as jury president for the section’s second edition.
Zhang has won prizes at each of the three major European festivals: the Golden Bear at Berlin for his 1987 debut “Red Sorghum,” the Golden Lion at Venice twice, for “The Story of Qiu Ju” (1992) and “Not One Less” (1999), and the Grand Prix of the Jury at Cannes for “To Live” (1994). His films have also picked up three Academy Award nominations and five Golden Globe nominations. He directed the opening and closing ceremonies for both the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics and the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, and remains active with recent work including “One Second” (2021) and “Full River Red” (2023), plus an upcoming adaptation of “The Three-Body Problem.” His history with Busan dates to 2010, when “Under the Hawthorn Tree” opened the festival.
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