메인 메뉴 바로가기
본문 바로가기
PRESS SERVICE
TICKET BOOKING
ACFM
APM
ACF
ACA & G.OTT
BAFA
Forum BIFF
PRESS
BIFF
ACFM
APM
ACF
ACA & G.OTT
BAFA
Forum BIFF
PRESS
KOR
Main menu
2024 BIFF
BIFF
Festival Overview
Program Overview
Poster
Juries
Award Winners
Sponsors
Final Report
Selection
Selection List
Opening/Closing
Gala Presentation
Icons
Jiseok
A Window on Asian Cinema
New Currents
Korean Cinema Today
World Cinema
Flash Forward
Wide Angle
Open Cinema
Midnight Passion
On Screen
Special Program in Focus
Special Screening
#Films Search
Schedule
Schedule by Date
Schedule by Theater
Schedule by Section
Festival Events
Festival Events
Streaming Schedule
Actors' House
Master Class
Hand-Printing Ceremony
Open Talk
Outdoor Greeting
Special Talk
Talk-to-Talk & Short Film, Long Chat
Special Event
BIFF Everywhere
Community BIFF
Asia Contents Awards
& Global OTT Awards
Audience Guide
Opening & Closing Information
Booking Information
Ticket Catalogue
Theater Regulation
Festival Map
Transportation
Booth Information
Merchandise
Accreditation
Accreditation
Festival
Cinephile
Press
Market
Badge Pickup Guide
Community
Notice
Newsletter
The Kinder Programmer
Selection Review
Media
FAQ
SNS Hub
홈 영역
Join the Cinematic Tide in BUSAN
The 29th Busan International Film Festival
Award Winners
More
ACA 바로가기
커뮤니티비프 바로가기
동네방네비프 바로가기
Community
Notice
&
News
More
Notice
more
[BIFF Press Release] The 29th Busan International Film Festival Final Report
Press Service The 29th Busan International Film FestivalFinal Report
2024-10-12
[BIFF Press Release] 2024 CHANEL X BAFA Celebrates a Successful Graduation Ceremony
Press Release | 2024.10.112024 CHANEL X BIFF Asian Film Academy Celebrates a Successful Graduation
2024-10-12
[BIFF Press Release] The 29th BIFF Announces 'Busan Vision Awards' Winners!
Press Release | 2024.10.10 The 29th BIFF Announces 'Busan Vision Awards' Winners! T
2024-10-10
p!tt GROUND
29th BUSAN International Film Festival
All Merchandise
BIFF News
more
[BIFF 2024] Daily Newsletter No. 10 (Oct 12)
2024-10-12
[BIFF 2024] Daily Newsletter No. 9 (Oct. 11)
2024-10-11
[BIFF 2024] Daily Newsletter No. 8 (Oct 10)
2024-10-10
Selection
BIFF 2024
Selection
More
Icons
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
The Face You Deserve
Psychology/Mystery/Suspence/Thriller
Coming of Age
Comedy/Satire
Francisco, a grumbling school teacher experiences an existential crisis on his thirtieth birthday. He contracts a severe case of measles like a child, and ends up confined to a countryside house under the care of seven men. Who are these seven men? His childhood friends? Or the seven dwarves from a fairy tale? Are they real people, or just figments of his imagination? This dreamlike film,
The Face You Deserve
, blends comedy, musical, theater, fairy tale, and adventure, suggests returning to childhood is impossible. At times, the seven authoritative boyish men reveal to Francisco that childhood is not a lost paradise, but an anxious world from which he must move beyond. In his debut feature
The Face You Deserve
, which established him as one of Portugal’s most promising director, Miguel Gomes explores the theme of Saudade (a Portuguese word for nostalgia, gentle melancholy, and a sense of longing) that would later become one of his favorite themes. (SEO Seunghee)
World Cinema
And Their Children After Them
Family/Child
Crime/Violence
Love/Romance
Coming of Age
The latest work from comedy writer duo the Boukherma brothers, is a poignant drama. After writing their own screenplays, the duo has adapted a coming-of-age film from the novel by Nicolas Mathieu, who won the Goncourt Prize. Despite this change in source material, they still focus on marginalized characters, setting the story in an economically depressed town in northeastern France. The film unfolds as a summer tale set in 1992 and revisited every two years, revolving around 15-year-old Anthony, his first love Steph, and the lives of their family and friends, all of which leave a deep emotional impact. We wonder what will happen to the boy who dreams of going to Texas and the girl who hopes to settle in Paris. The constraints imposed by class and environment are no different in advanced societies. Like the chapters of the original novel, titled after songs, the film features an impressive soundtrack. While the kids are obsessed with Red Hot Chili Peppers, the sunlit beach doesn’t quite suit them. What they really needed is Gloria Gaynor’s ‘I Will Survive.’ (LEE Yong Cheol)
Korean Cinema Today
Hear Me: Our Summer
Love/Romance
Coming of Age
26-year-old Yong-jun (Hong Kyung) is troubled by his lack of dreams when he falls for the same-age Yeo-reum (Roh Yoon-seo) at first sight. Yeo-reum takes care of her little sister Ga-eul (Kim Min-ju), a swimmer with hearing impairments, regarding her sister’s Olympic aspirations as her own dream. While youthful feelings seem to blossom between Yong-jun and Yeo-reum, she finds herself unfamiliar with these emotions and feels guilt toward her sister. In
Hear Me: Our Summer
, the youth are wholeheartedly attentive to each other’s voices. Rather than relying on spoken language, they use sign language, gestures, body language, and written text. The film persuasively shows that falling in love involves understanding and sharing the other’s language, discovering a unique form of intimacy, and ultimately, rediscovering themselves. It captures the intersection of romantic youth and coming-of-age drama with a refreshing vitality, brought to life by the energetic performances of Hong Kyung, Roh Yoon-seo, and Kim Min-ju. The eponymous Taiwanese film has gained great popularity in Korea. (JEONG Jihye)
Flash Forward
The End
Family/Child
Love/Romance
Music/Dance
Disaster
Comedy/Satire
Environment/Nature
Twenty years after doomsday, one of the last remaining families on earth are hiding in a luxurious bunker concealed deep inside salt mines. But the sudden arrival of a Girl seeking asylum shakes their seemingly perfect life, and the Son starts to question the life that his family survived before, and in the years since, the apocalypse occurred.
In his long-awaited fiction debut, Joshua Oppenheimer continues his interest in people haunted by ghosts from their past. Those who remember
Act of Killing
(2012) and
The Look of Silence
(2014) will recognize not only the recurring theme, but also the continual emphasis on singing and dancing, as The End is a musical with compelling lyrics that express the insurmountable guilt followed by resorting to denial. The film is supported by a strong ensemble cast including Tilda Swinton, George MacKay, and Moses Ingram. (Karen PARK)
Icons
Three Friends
Love/Romance
There are three friends: Joan, Alice, and Rebecca, each facing love in their own way. Joan feels that her love for her partner Victor has completely ended. Victor tries his best to improve their relationship, but he can’t change her mind. Eventually, other men enter Joan’s life. Alice has a partner, Eric, but she continues to meet an attractive man, who repeatedly appears in her dreams, in her real life. Rebecca is in a relationship that she keeps secret from her friends, but her “Mister X” turns out to be Alice’s partner, Eric. The movie takes the point of view of an observer, Victor, who wants to understand Joan. However, neither he nor the audience can fully understand the various forms of love depicted in the movie, including Joan’s feelings. Where the love starts, where it turns, and where it ends are always unclear. Director Emmanuel Mouret’s exploration of love ultimately concludes that we are beings who, without truly understanding what love is, are helplessly swayed by it. (LEE Juhyun)
A Window on Asian Cinema
Sad Letters of an Imaginary Woman
Family/Child
Women
Living a life tied to an old, worn-down house, Nidhi makes a phone call to her childhood self. “You are me,” she says. In the film, the protagonist moves through the house, capturing sounds with a boom mic and transmitting her words back to the past. In the place full of spirits, the interplay between past and present is expressed through sounds. Nidhi’s childhood memories are stained with the absence of her father and her mother’s depression, and now, as an adult, she finds herself sinking into the same deep depression her mother once experienced. Poetically portraying a woman’s inner world, this film presents a mother-daughter relationship tangled in love and resentment, all seeming to merge into a single character—the narrator. In the final scene, as Nidhi finally steps out of the house, the camera, which had been confined to the dark interior of the house, captures a ghostly gaze moving across an open space, layering the scene with deeper meaning. (HONG Soin)
New Currents
Abel
Family/Child
Crime/Violence
Politics
Set in Southern Kazakhstan after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1993,
Abel
tells the story of a shepherd who faces new hardships when his collective farm is disbanded. When the farm where Abel spent his entire life herding sheep is disbanded in the wake of the changing political landscape, the farm’s workers wait for the farm property to be divided fairly. Unfortunately, corruption and deception run rampant among the leaders, and the rapid encroachment of capitalism proves too much for Abel and his family to handle. The film meticulously and realistically follows Abel and his family’s struggles with an unflinching, observational camera. The 13-and-a-half-minute one-shot scene in the first sequence, which intricately captures the dynamics between characters, and other well-crafted long takes showcase director Elzat Eskendir’s persistent and dedicated artistry. (PARK Sun Young)
A Window on Asian Cinema
Pierce
Family/Child
Crime/Violence
Psychology/Mystery/Suspence/Thriller
Coming of Age
Sports
High school fencer Zijie is shocked to learn that his older brother, Zihan, is being released early from prison. Zijie’s mother, who is about to marry a kind, wealthy man named Zhuang, wants to erase or downplay Zihan’s existence. But Zijie remembers his older brother as the one who saved him from drowning and the winner of three national fencing championships. Was Zihan really a psychopath who deliberately killed his opponent, as their mother claims, or was it an accident? If fencing is ‘chess with swords,’ requiring strategic anticipation of the opponent’s moves, the characters in
Pierce
are players, each moving their own pieces on the board of truth. In her directorial debut, former fencer Nelicia Low captures the dangerous yet beautiful art of fencing in a tale of brotherhood, earning her the Best Director Award at the 2024 Karlovy Vary Film Festival. (CHOI Eun)
Open Cinema
Kalki 2898 AD
Crime/Violence
SF/Fantasy
Women
Disaster
Action/Martial Arts
Revenge
Science/Technology/IT
In the ages of gods, Ashwathama was cursed with immortality after losing a war, doomed to wander until he finds redemption in the next era of humankind. Six thousand years later, humanity has reached a dystopian state, marred by endless war and slaughter. A single government controls all military forces and resources, and only the wealthy live relatively peaceful lives in a megastructure called the Complex. In the Complex, a secret experiment known as Project K is being conducted on women of childbearing age. Released in 2024,
Kalki 2898 AD
became an instant sensation, not just in India but also in North America. The film presents a thrilling clash between past and present, good and evil, and the worlds of mythology and science. With grand music, intense action, and striking mise-en-scene, the performances by Prabhas from
Baahubali
, Deepika Padukone from
Om Shanti Om
(2007), and Kamal Haasan from
Vikram
(2022) add credibility to this spectacular film. (PARK Sun Young)
Korean Cinema Today
The Final Semester
Coming of Age
Human Rights/Labor/Social
The Final Semester
is the extraordinary story of an ordinary student named Chang-woo, who is in the final semester at a vocational high school. Chang-woo is doing an internship at a small to medium-sized company’s factory and finds himself awkwardly contemplating his future alongside his classmate Woo-jae, who is growing tired of factory life, and Seong-min, who is recognized as competent. Despite unfortunate accidents happening around him, Chang-woo’s education continues every single day.
The Final Semester
is the second feature film by director Lee Ran-hee, who delivered a powerful emotional impact with her debut feature
A Leave
(2020), which told the story of a middle-aged laid-off worker, while
The Final Semester
is a meticulous chronicle of a young novice worker. Watching Chang-woo clumsily working in a factory full of dangerous machinery is nerve-wracking, but he slowly and steadily grows, and his small steps forward are deeply moving. This is a modest yet solid and authentic coming-of-age story that quietly immerses the audience in the experience of growth. (JUNG Hanseok)
Wide Angle
Another Home
Family/Child
True Story
Food/Beverage
On Cheung Chau Island, located 10 kilometers south of Hong Kong, A-Cheung and his wife run an old food stall that serves simple fare like dried grilled seafood and beer. The stall has served a loyal customer for over ten years, nicknamed “Plumpy.” Plumpy, a tomboyish regular, shares a close bond with A-Cheung, despite their 40-year age difference. They are a perfect pair, who spend their days drinking beer, smoking, chatting, and playing mahjong. But when it comes to the current state of Hong Kong, which is just a ferry ride away, their views could not be more different. Leisurely pastimes and the intense rhythm of revolution clash in
Another Home
, which uses the food stall as a stage to observe how the Hong Kong pro-democracy protests and the subsequent pandemic transform their lives. With the mood of a feature film, this documentary offers a portrait of everyday life, capturing the end of better times with striking simplicity. (KANG Sowon)
Event
2024 Festival
Event
More
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)
Event
2024 Festival
Event
C
O
M
I
N
G
S
O
O
N
The Kinder Programmer
Recommendations
from this year's selection
More
The Kinder Programmer
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
Media
BIFF Media
More
BIFF SNS
Follow us on SNS!
BIFF NEWS LETTER
For latest BIFF news
Subscribe
Ticketing&Confirmation
Ticket Booking
Ticket Confirmation
Selection List
Ticket Catalogue
QUICK Menu