Busan film festival draws its biggest cinema crowd since 2015 as filmmakers rally against political row
Screenings drew 200,043 admissions, the festival's highest in over a decade, with total attendance of 277,027 — around 40,000 up on last year. The numbers arrived alongside a political dispute over a Korean box office hit and an Iranian director's war speech, prompting filmmakers to hold an emergency press conference defending artistic freedom.
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