The Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) has selected “The Gift to
Stalin” as its opening film. In a press conference held Tuesday morning
in Busan Grand Hotel, the PIFF organizing committee announced its
opening and closing films, and reported that 315 films from some 60
countries have been invited to the festival. This year’s festival will close with South Korean director Yoon
Jong-chan’s “I Am Happy,” about the relationship between a psychiatric
patient and a nurse. The patient is played by Korea’s hottest
heartthrob Hyun Bin and the nurse by beautiful Lee Bo-young.The festival will run from October 2nd through 10th in the Nampo-dong neighborhood in the southern port city of Busan.

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