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Open Cinema
RM: Right People, Wrong Place
Travel/Road Movie
True Story
Music/Dance
Art/Artist
This documentary chronicles the making of BTS leader RM’s second solo album, “Right Place, Wrong Person.” It tells the story of the final chapter of his twenties as he prepares for mandatory military service, and offers a deeply personal glimpse into the life of Kim Nam-joon.
RM: Right People, Wrong Place
opens with grainy shots that evoke a sense of nostalgia. It is a chronicle of youth, spanning from February 8, 2023, to November 10, 2023, with each section dated like a journal entry, documenting the progress of “Team RM’s” project. In a collaborative project that feels like a small festival, where like-minded friends with similar tastes come together to share burgers and whiskey, RM, or Kim Nam-joon, dreams of creating an album that is “entirely his own.” The film follows him as he travels to places where no one recognizes him, and the photographer captures him just as he is.
RM: Right People, Wrong Place
is both a film about the making of RM’s album and a very special record of a unique youth. (KANG Sowon)
A Window on Asian Cinema
Land of Broken Hearts
Love/Romance
SF/Fantasy
Comedy/Satire
Kai, a 27-year-old who recently got a job at an advertising company, dyes his hair blue and sets out to start anew. But following him, as they have since the day he was born, are aliens carrying cameras and lights. Just as they begin to complain about the monotony of Kai’s life, a woman named Xiaole, who shares her home with Kai, appears. Will the aliens get what they want and see Kai find happiness with Xiaole?
Land of Broken Hearts
, the second feature film by Wen Shipei, who was invited to Cannes with his debut film
Are You Lonesome Tonight?
(2021), offers small comfort to those questioning a life dictated by a script and dreaming of their own ‘Buenos Aires’. The film suggests that when life gets too hard, you should take off your shoes and feel the energy of the land that comforts broken hearts. (CHOI Eun)
A Window on Asian Cinema
Second Chance
Family/Child
Travel/Road Movie
Love/Romance
Women
On a cold winter day, a woman dances strangely in the snow-covered foothills of the Himalayas, moving slowly as if performing a ritual to wash away the deep wounds of her life. This woman is 25-year-old Nia, who is left bewildered by an unexpected pregnancy. She repeatedly contacts her boyfriend to no avail. Carrying her pain, she retreats to her family’s mountain cabin, where she is enveloped by silence and fear. But soon she reconnects with memories of her childhood through her interactions with Bhemi, a local woman who takes care of the cabin, and her grandson Sunny, and gets closer to the lives of the locals, even finding moments of laughter. Against the harsh backdrop of winter mountains, these three individuals, each bearing their own wounds despite their age and class differences, slowly grow closer and form relationships that bring comfort to one another—simply witnessing this process is healing in itself. (HONG Soin)
Wide Angle
Lucky Dog
Music/Dance
Comedy/Satire
Animation
Lucky Dog
shows the struggles of people trying to immigrate to Canada. It’s tough to meet the embassy’s strict requirements, especially if you’re a dog with no special talents. (PARK Sungho)
Special Program in Focus
Arabian Nights Vol. II - The Desolate One
Films about Films
Comedy/Satire
Human Rights/Labor/Social
History/War
The
Arabian Nights
trilogy maintains the surreal quality of the original work by shifting between the past and present without hesitation and overlapping them intentionally. It freely utilizes elements of both documentary and fiction to present a diverse array of stories about Portuguese people living through the economic crisis, conveyed through satire, metaphor, and realistic depiction. While Part 1 directly satirizes the incompetence of the politicians who caused the economic crisis and realistically portrays the lives of ordinary people experiencing the crisis, Part 2, composed of three episodes, provides the bleakest yet most powerful political metaphors, satire, and black humor in the trilogy. It shows how one seemingly unrelated event influences another and ultimately functions as a political metaphor through a chain of intriguing stories. (JO Ji-hoon)
A Window on Asian Cinema
Saba
Family/Child
Women
Human Rights/Labor/Social
In Dhaka, Bangladesh, 25-year-old Saba cares for her paralyzed mother, Shirin, after an accident leaves her unable to walk. As Saba shoulders the responsibilities of caregiving and earning a living, the daily grind seems never-ending, and Shirin’s demands grow as her health deteriorates. While working at a job she found to earn money for Shirin’s surgery, Saba meets Ankur, who brings a glimmer of hope into her life. When Saba senses her mother’s impending death, this moment of overwhelming pain also signals the end of her seemingly endless cycle of life. In the final scene, as Saba wanders the streets of Dhaka and collapses, staring forward into somewhere unknown, the camera’s impressive close-up captures the depth of her complex emotions, encapsulating the layered significance of this pivotal event. (HONG Soin)
A Window on Asian Cinema
Travesty
Crime/Violence
Psychology/Mystery/Suspence/Thriller
Politics
In a small village hospital on the outskirts of Mongolia, a hostage situation unfolds. The perpetrator holds the village’s only doctor, along with nurses, a cook, and patients, demanding an enormous ransom. As the local police, overwhelmed by the magnitude of the crisis, struggle to handle the situation, a veteran detective named Davaa arrives from the city. Despite his efforts to navigate the harsh conditions,—lacking proper resources or support—he finds himself increasingly helpless as more hostages are killed. Set against the desolate landscape of inner Mongolia, the hostage situation unfolds skillfully within the conventions of the thriller genre. However, as time goes on, Davaa’s growing sense of helplessness and despair diverges from typical crime drama conventions, exposing the incompetence and corruption of the police leadership and politicians. Director Batsukh Baatar, who began his career as a cinematographer, captivates viewers with his striking visuals. (PARK Sun Young)
Gala Presentation
Visiting Hours
Psychology/Mystery/Suspence/Thriller
Women
Human Rights/Labor/Social
Patricia Mazuy is an unpredictable director. Her filmography spans thrillers, comedies, and westerns. In
Visiting Hours
, a social drama mixed with comedy, the director portrays of two women whose fates will soon intertwine. Alma (Isabelle Huppert), from the bourgeois class, and Mina (Hafsia Herzi), a young mother from the working class, first meet in the waiting room of a prison where their husbands are incarcerated. Alma’s husband, a famous doctor, was convicted for a drunk driving accident, while Mina’s husband was found guilty of robbing a jewelry store. But the real victims and the other prisoners here are the women themselves. Their lives revolve around visiting the prison, and the burden of social responsibility for their husbands’ crimes falls on them. They are also captives of their respective social classes. When Mina starts living with Alma, the director doesn’t just focus on the clash between these two classes. Soon, they will find an unexpected way to liberate themselves from each other. (SEO Seunghee)
Midnight Passion
The Damned
Psychology/Mystery/Suspence/Thriller
Religion/Spirituality
Eva, a 19th-century widow is tasked with making an impossible choice when, in the middle of an especially cruel winter, a ship sinks off the coast of her isolated fishing post. Eva and her crew must choose to either rescue the shipwrecked or survive the winter with their last remaining food. Facing the consequences of their choice and tormented by their guilt, the inhabitants wrestle with a mounting sense of dread and begin to believe they are all being punished for their choices... From the creator of Netflix’s
The Valhalla Murders
comes this visually striking psychological horror anchored by powerhouse performances from rising stars Odessa Young & Joe Cole.
The Damned
is a 2024 horror film directed by Thordur Palsson, with Jamie Hannigan writing the screenplay from a story by Palsson, which had its world premiere at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival.
A Window on Asian Cinema
Desert of Namibia
Love/Romance
Coming of Age
Women
Comedy/Satire
Director Yamanaka Yoko was invited to the Forum section of the Berlin Film Festival with her debut work
Amiko
(2017), which she made at the age of 20. The lead actress, Kawai Yuumi, says that meeting Yamanaka Yoko after watching
Amiko
as a teenager was her first experience of conversing with a film director. Kawai Yuumi later appeared in
It’s a Summer Film
(2020),
A Balance
(2020),
Plan 75
(2022), and finally reunited with Yamanaka Yoko in D
esert of Namibia
. It’s an impressive work that requires a special trust relationship between the director and the actress, featuring performances that expose everything about herself without defense. 21-year-old Kana appears to be a young woman living without much thought. She doesn’t have any ambitions for the future, her affection for her boyfriend is questionable, and she doesn’t seem satisfied with her current job. She is not someone who would easily win over many people, as she sometimes erupts into hysteria, as if she has built up anger inside. The charm of
Desert of Namibia
lies in examining her closely, even more closely, and finding commonalities between her and us. The film is a good example of character exploration that can’t be guessed easily. (NAM Dong-chul)
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The Empire
SF/Fantasy
Comedy/Satire
It’s been a full 25 years since BIFF introduced Dumont’s second film, and he has since become an unparalleled auteur. Yet, the dizzying experience of watching
Humanity
(1999) for the first time remains intact, making him a filmmaker who still eludes easy definition. The themes he delves into resist being easily pinned down by words. His latest film, which won the Jury Grand Prix at the Berlinale, adds a layer of bewilderment to his oeuvre. Can you believe he has ventured beyond his only comedy,
Slack Bay
(2016), into comic adventure and space opera? This mischievous work not only parodies
Star Wars
and teases
Dune
, but also audaciously manipulates Bach’s compositions. Despite all this, Dumont doesn’t neglect themes like ‘the divine and human, good and evil, body and soul.’ Through the clash of 0s and 1s, he even manages to encompass the future of the digital generation. Bruno Dumont remains, as ever, a philosopher who, while questioning everything, still reaches out to humanity. (LEE Yong Cheol)
Midnight Passion
Do Not Enter
Psychology/Mystery/Suspence/Thriller
Religion/Spirituality
Two working class youtubers ‘in the making’ enter an abandoned mansion to get their basketball back, and get lost inside while pranking each other. They record their ‘quick adventure’ with their phones for their audience, and tweak it with a fake phantom appearance to attract more followers to their YouTube channel. When uploaded the video goes viral, so they start a challenge: if the video reaches a certain number of views, they will enter the house again, at night, alone, totally unprotected. As fans react positively, they will do as promised, not only to discover and unveil the true nature of the place and their inhabitants, but to realize they might not be among the living anymore. Which opens a question - how far would you go to be famous?
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Actors' House
SUL Kyung-gu
12:00 (KST), Oct 3 (Thu)
Master Class
The Golden Era of Ann HUI
19:00 (KST), Oct 3 (Thu)
Actors' House
PARK Boyoung
18:00 (KST), Oct 4 (Fri)
Actors' House
HWANG Jung-min
20:00 (KST), Oct 4 (Fri)
Master Class
Miguel GOMES, a filmmaker of Joyful Melancholy
14:30 (KST), Oct 5 (Sat)
Actors' House
CHUN Woo-hee
19:00 (KST), Oct 6 (Sun)
Master Class
KUROSAWA Kiyoshi: At the forefront of genre cinema
10:30 (KST), Oct 6 (Sun)
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The Kinder Programmer :
Programmer PARK Sungho
Presenting The Kinder Programmer: The Kinder Programmer is a project designed to bring to our audience members and subscribers recommendations from this year's selection, hand-picked by BIFF's very own programmers. Programmer PARK Sungho Only a decade ago, the Southeast Asian film market as a whole was smaller than the Korean film market. Yet, with a steady increase in both quality and quantity, it has come to the point where not only do Southeast Asian films receive great attention
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