Gala Presentation
Visiting HoursPatricia 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 (...
Special Screening
Walking in the MoviesThis is a documentary about the film life of Kim Dong-ho, who served as the Festival Director from the first to the fifteenth edition of the Busan International Film Festival(BIFF) and was a key member in shaping the festival into...
New Currents
WaterdropThirteen-year-old Su-yeon is left alone after her grandmother passes away. Su-yeon’s friends and neighbors, whom she hoped would take her in, gradually turn their backs on her. Faced with being placed in a childcare facility if sh...
Wide Angle
WavyWavyTwo girls with the same name meet at a swimming pool and quickly become best friends. Yet, the fear of being alone again looms over them. As their dark emotions from this fear rise to the surface, the story takes a dramatic turn w...
On Screen
Way Back LoveAt 24, Heewan (Kim Minha) struggles to find hope and the will to live. Then, her first love, Ramwoo (Gong Myoung), reappears after six years?but as a grim reaper. Ramwoo warns Heewan of her impending death and proposes that they s...
World Cinema
When the Light BreaksUna and her secret lover excitedly whisper about their future together. All of those promises disappear in flames, leaving heartbroken Una to cope with the unexpected loss by herself. Una cannot bear the unfairness of having to be...
World Cinema
Wild DiamondAgathe Riedinger’s debut feature Wild Diamond, which competed at Cannes, portrays a girl in the midst of the social network society. Liane, a 19-year-old girl from southern France, lives in the era of TikTok and Instagram. She is ...
Wide Angle
Works and Days“So soon as the time for ploughing is proclaimed to men, then make haste, you and your slaves alike.” Works and Days opens with this quote from Hesiod’s epic poem and makes the poem’s title its own. The film indeed portrays variou...
Wide Angle
XiXiWu Fan, a director from Taiwan, becomes fascinated by the free spirit of XiXi, a dancer and performance artist she meets by chance while studying in Berlin. XiXi, originally from Shanghai, marries a French husband and moves to Fra...
Jiseok
Yen and Ai-LeeThe film begins with a striking scene: a woman, bloodied and battered, appears in a quiet village alley late at night and stares directly into the camera. The scene then shifts to Yen’s reunion with her mother, Ai-Lee, after servi...