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Moon Choi joins Busan jury as ‘Bedford Park’ screens at the festival
Moon Choi, also known in Korea as Choi Hee-seo, is an actor serving on the competition jury at the Busan International Film Festival in South Korea.
Her film “Bedford Park” is also screening at the festival in the Flash Forward section.
Choi plays Audrey, a Korean American physical therapist in New Jersey who faces her immigrant parents’ expectations while trying to shape her own life.
After Audrey’s mother is hurt in a car accident, Audrey forms a bond with Eli, the former wrestler who was driving.
The film premiered at Sundance in January and won the Special Jury Award for Debut Feature.
Choi says she will look for films that leave audiences with questions and performances that feel truthful.
She describes her return to Busan as a juror as a chance to learn from the other jurors and the films in competition.
Moon Choi is serving on the seven-member competition jury at the Busan International Film Festival.
Her film “Bedford Park” is screening in the festival’s Flash Forward section.
The film follows Audrey, a Korean American physical therapist in New Jersey who forms a bond with the driver who injured her mother.
“Bedford Park” premiered in Sundance’s U.S. Dramatic competition and won the Special Jury Award for Debut Feature.
Choi says she hopes to judge films by the questions they leave audiences with after the screening.
- Who
- Moon Choi, also known in Korea as Choi Hee-seo, is a member of the festival’s competition jury.
- What
- Bedford Park” is screening at the festival, while Choi serves on the jury.
- When
- The article was published on October 12, 2026. The festival dates are not stated.
- Where
- The Busan International Film Festival in Busan, South Korea.
- Why
- Not stated.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
I don’t have the pressure that I need to prove anything to anybody
I’m kind of feeling like a student trying to learn from all these films that I’m going to be watching alongside amazing people like Zhang Yimou and Bi Gan.
I want to look for the films that leave us with these amazing questions as we exit the theater, rather than the films that I feel like that give us definitive answers.
Choi received Busan International Film Festival’s Actress of the Year honor for her lead role in “Our Body.
Bedford Park” premiered in Sundance’s U.S. Dramatic competition and won the Special Jury Award for Debut Feature.
Choi watched Lee Chang-dong’s “Possible Love” with her father.
Choi joined the competition jury, and “Bedford Park” screened in the Flash Forward section.
- Jury size
- Seven members
- Jury president
- Zhang Yimou
- Bedford Park” section
- Flash Forward
- Bedford Park” award
- Special Jury Award for Debut Feature at Sundance
- Choi’s 2018 honor
- Busan International Film Festival Actress of the Year
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