The curtain came down on the 30th edition of the Busan International Film Festival last Friday night with a closing ceremony that doubled as an awards gala, bringing the event’s first-ever competition to a close. The newly launched Busan Award crowned veteran Chinese-Korean auteur Zhang Lu’s Gloaming in Luomu as best film, while Taiwanese screen star–turned–first-time filmmaker Shu Qi took home best director honors for Girl , a coming-of-age story based on her childhood.

Over the course of the 2025 event, there were 329 films, including 90 premieres, screened across 31 screens in seven theaters in this South Korean port city. And, in keeping with the occasion of marking three decades, the stars came out to play.

The curtain came down on the 30th edition of the Busan International

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