Born in 1969, Min Byunghun graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in Moscow. He first co-directed with Jamshed Usmonov the feature drama <Flight of the Bee> (1998), which revolves around an elementary school teacher in a small village in Tajikistan during the civil war. The film won the Silver Alexander at the Thessaloniki Film Festival and the Prize of the City of Torino, the Audience Award and the FIPRESCI Award at the Torino Film Festival. After fil...More

Born in 1969, Min Byunghun graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in Moscow. He first co-directed with Jamshed Usmonov the feature drama <Flight of the Bee> (1998), which revolves around an elementary school teacher in a small village in Tajikistan during the civil war. The film won the Silver Alexander at the Thessaloniki Film Festival and the Prize of the City of Torino, the Audience Award and the FIPRESCI Award at the Torino Film Festival. After filming <Let’s not cry> (2001) in Uzbekistan, he moved to Korea to make <Pruning The Grapevine> (2007). He then worked on the short <Nostalgia> (2011), and he followed this up with the drama film <Touch> (2012), about a family of modest means facing crisis after the father committed a hit and run, which screened at many film festivals. <Mask and Mirror> (2013), an experimental documentary short about a Paris-based painter, won Best Director Prize at Korean Competition For Shorts of the Jeonju International Film Festival. After the documentary <Begging Island: Let It Be> (2014) in which he followed a photographer as he witnesses the industrial development of an island he tried to protect, Min returned to arthouse fiction fare with <Love Never Fails>, which debuted at the Busan International Film Festival in 2014, just as <Touch> did two years prior. His next work <I’m Feng>, an experimental blend of fiction and documentary filmmaking that presented the work of Chinese artist Feng Zhengjie, came a year later. He then explored with Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.5 in <The Emperor> (2016), and in 2020, he dabbled in artistic film essay with <Eternity and a Day> (2020). In 2021, he released his latest drama film <Miracle> (2020), which premiered at the Yubari International Film Festival and ventured into art video with his exhibition named “The More You See”.Less