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Special Program in Focus
A Hard Day
Crime/Violence
Psychology/Mystery/Suspence/Thriller
Detective Go Geon-su (Lee Sun-kyun) of the violent crimes unit truly goes all the way. On the day of his mother’s funeral, he hits someone in a traffic accident and covers it up, only to be embroiled in further criminal activities after receiving threats from a witness. Lee Sun-kyun perfectly dominates the film from start to finish as the lead responsible for this entire pandemonium. The actor brilliantly portrays Geon-su, who is visibly anxious, uneasy, and flustered, yet becomes irritable and snappy when cornered - a typical fighting cock who never loses his nerve even in front of the relentlessly aggressive Park Chang-min (Jo Jin-woong). Lee’s energy and way of speaking match perfectly with the character. And it’s not just his one-man show. The acting ensemble in the intense chase and fight scenes, where bodies clash against each other, is also perfectly synchronized in breath and rhythm. (JEONG Jihye)
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The Sense of Violence
True Story
Films about Films
Politics
Art/Artist
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)
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Phantosmia
True Story
Politics
Human Rights/Labor/Social
History/War
Hilarion Zabala, a former master sergeant, is tormented by a strange smell. The diagnosis is phantosmia, i.e. olfactory hallucinations, where he perceives smells that do not actually exist. His doctor attributes this to past trauma and recommends that he confront and recall his dark military service period as a solution. Zabala, willing to take on any task, voluntarily visits a military base and is eventually assigned to a remote island penal colony. However, another horrific reality awaits him there.
From religious bloodshed to human rights abuses against women, the various forms of violence created by humans are still structurally and routinely pervasive. How can justice and salvation be achieved in an age of violence? Can violence used to prevent violence ever be justified? Deep anguish is reflected through the contemplative black-and-white imagery. (BOO Kyunghwan)
Special Program in Focus
Happyend
Love/Romance
Coming of Age
Disaster
Politics
Human Rights/Labor/Social
The first feature fiction film by director Sora Neo, who made documentary Ryuichi Sakamoto / Opus (2023), invited to the Busan International Film Festival last year. Happyend has been invited to many film festivals including Venice, Toronto, and New York, attracting attention. Set in Japan in the near future, the film depicts the conflict between an oppressive high school and rebellious students. Close friends Yuta and Kou witness the school principal entertaining government officials and play a prank with the principal’s car. The angered principal is eager to find the culprit and doesn’t hesitate to make discriminatory remarks towards Kou, who is of Korean descent. The school introduces a system that immediately gives demerits to students who misbehave using surveillance cameras, but ultimately faces resistance from the students. Happyend, which shows a miniature version of the entire Japanese society through the school, raises questions about the system that justifies dictatorship and oppression. Disadvantaging those who are not Japanese and suppressing those who rebel with public power is no different in school or society. The film movingly depicts the teenagers trying not to hurt their hearts in such a harsh environment. (NAM Dong-chul)
Korean Cinema Today
The face of Hwanhee
The face of Hwanhee
is the second feature film by director Lee Jeahan, who previously directed the tender and delicate debut film,
Sophie’s World
(2021). Composed of four chapters— House of a writer, The Visitors, To the never never land, and The face of Hwanhee—the film unfolds like a collection of short stories, and can be experienced as such. In this narrative, Hwanhee is neither anyone nor nobody. The four stories, which feature a student visiting a teacher, an unwelcome guest at a restaurant, a man contemplating studying abroad and his girlfriend and his mother, and a novelist and a reader, each contain stories within stories. They traverse freely between night and day, fact and truth, narrative and image, within and outside the frame, dream and reality, actors and characters, the singular and the plural, and chance and fate, stimulating all the senses.
The face of Hwanhee
presents four curious adventures of Hwanhee and Hwanhee’s neighbors, where structure creates mood and mood shapes the world, making for a fascinating journey. (JUNG Hanseok)
Jiseok
Traveling Alone
Family/Child
Love/Romance
Coming of Age
Women
The third feature film by Ishibashi Yuho, who won the Japan Cuts award at the Osaka Asian Film Festival with
When Morning Comes, I Feel Empty
(2022). The film delicately conveys the memory of first love and the sense of loss, moving back and forth between past and present. Misaki, who has worked in Tokyo for ten years, spends quality time with her family and friends again in her hometown. At an event where classmates gather, she learns that the boy she liked in middle school has died. Unable to forget the memory of their first conversation in the library on a typhoon day, Misaki visits the library again on another typhoon day.
Traveling Alone
is a film that shows another way to fill the emptiness in one’s heart. While the music they listened to together on an MD player shows the emotional fullness of that time and place, the film only depicts the situation without directly playing the music. There is beauty that can be imagined because it’s empty, and there is love that is poignant because it wasn’t fulfilled. (NAM Dong-chul)
Jiseok
So it goes
Travel/Road Movie
Crime/Violence
Psychology/Mystery/Suspence/Thriller
SF/Fantasy
Comedy/Satire
A young couple in love drive around committing murders. Bodies, guns, knives, ropes, and bottles are scattered everywhere. From fields and forests to rivers, seas, and urban landscapes, they go wherever they please, as long as they’re together. The film
So It Goes
is the third feature film by Lee Haram, who previously brought his bizarrely stylized debut
Beyond
(2022) to the Busan International Film Festival. It is another form of eccentricity and travelogue. The film offers a playful yet brutal assault on humanity and history, set in a dystopian world teetering on the brink of apocalypse. It blends elements of romance with invisible entities, expresses a melancholic embrace of death, and creates a strange collage of themes. This bizarre and unique hybrid world cannot be compared to anything else and does not converge into any familiar genre. It features traces and aromas of Westerns, horror, gore, sci-fi, road movies, and romance. It is a provocative journey that invites viewers to wander willingly. (JEONG Jihye)
Wide Angle
Escape Velocity
Family/Child
Women
Jaehyeon, who works at a bike shop, learns that the owner of a motorcycle that was left unclaimed for several months has died in an accident. He delivers the bike to the man’s widow. What follows is a beautiful ride shared by two people, each grappling with the vast and immeasurable gap between “hard to accept” and “impossible to fathom” in the face of tragedy. (KANG Sowon)
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Youth (Hard Times)
True Story
Human Rights/Labor/Social
From 2014 to 2019, Wang Bing filmed workers in the Chinese garment district of Zhili in Huzhou, Zhejiang Province. In 18,000 workshops, 300,000 migrant workers who have left home to toil for low wages, working 15-hour days.
Youth (Hard Times)
is the second chapter in the trilogy of films that follow the workers in the workshops of Zhili, following
Youth (Spring)
. This time, the focus is on “money.” A young worker misplaces his wage ledger and pleads with his boss to be paid, only to be ignored. At one factory, the owner fails to pay on Sunday and then disappears, leaving only the unpaid workers behind. In such moments, someone always says, “I should go back home and farm” or “Everyone is like that here.” Another factory sees disputes over overtime pay. When the workers board buses to return home for the Spring Festival, they fall asleep clutching gift packages. A young man sings, “I want to know why you look so sad.” (JUNG Sung-il)
Special Program in Focus
Girls Will Be Girls
Family/Child
Love/Romance
Coming of Age
Women
In a small village near the Himalayas, 16-year-old model student Mira becomes captivated by the free-spirited transfer student, Sri. As she falls for her first love, Mira’s sexual desires and rebelliousness begin to surface. The one thing that stands in the way of Mira’s self-discovery is her mother, Anila, who has never experienced a rebellious phase in her life. The conflict between the controlling Anila and the increasingly rebellious Mira takes an unexpected turn with Sri’s involvement. Director Shuchi Talati skillfully captures the subtle changes in their emotions and relationships, creating a captivating portrayal of Mira and Anila’s coming-of-age stories. The film features standout performances from Kani Kusruti, one of the most noteworthy Asian actors of the year, and two young actors making their debut. Winner of the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival. (PARK Sun Young)
Korean Cinema Today
The Waves of Winter
Travel/Road Movie
Psychology/Mystery/Suspence/Thriller
Moon-young works as a railroad conductor in Seoul. The accidents and their aftereffects that she witnesses as a conductor are hard to endure, and she doesn’t get along with people. One day, she receives a call from a friend and decides to visit her hometown, which she has been trying to forget. Sang-woo works as a teacher at an elementary school. He follows the traces of Moon-young who left for her hometown. There is a quiet tension that lingers throughout the film. The two stories of Moon-Young’s and Sang-woo’s journeys are two similar forms. Moreover, within this symmetrical structure, fascinating cracks of memory and illusion permeate asymmetrically, sometimes intensely, sometimes subtly, drawing us into the realm of curiosity.
The Waves of Winter
is a meticulous psychological drama that delves deeply into the characters’ inner selves and an illusory road movie that makes us newly aware of time and ourselves. (JUNG Hanseok)
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SUL Kyung-gu
12:00 (KST), Oct 3 (Thu)
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The Golden Era of Ann HUI
19:00 (KST), Oct 3 (Thu)
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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)
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CHUN Woo-hee
19:00 (KST), Oct 6 (Sun)
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KUROSAWA Kiyoshi: At the forefront of genre cinema
10:30 (KST), Oct 6 (Sun)
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The Kinder Programmer :
Programmer KANG Sowon
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 KANG Sowon The Rise of Emerging Korean Documentary Filmmakers This year, the number of entries in the Wide Angle – Short Film Competition (both Korean and Asian) has set a new record. While the number of submissions has steadily risen each year, this year saw an
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