Special Screening

• Young-jo KIM
• Korea
• 2022
• 117min

On May 18, 2017, the Busan International Film Festival’s Program Director Kim Jiseok died suddenly and unexpectedly from a heart attack while on a business trip to the Cannes Film ...

Wide Angle

• Hae-il CHUNG
• Korea
• 2022
• 29min

On her way home during the holiday season, Jooyoung is called back to work. Having to work overnight is annoying enough, but then she gets stuck at a sobriety checkpoint. It is m...

Wide Angle

• Sadeq ES-HAQI
• Iran
• 2022
• 22min

The daily life of a gay couple living together in Tehran is interrupted by an invisible third presence?the spirit of the ex-boyfriend who died six years ago who has returned and ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Saim SADIQ
• Pakistan
• 2022
• 127min

Mumtaz is a makeup artist who is passionate about her work. She lives with her considerate husband, Haider; her dominating father-in-law, Aman; in addition to her brother-in-law, h...

• Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard

Korean Cinema Today

• Kunjae JANG
• Korea
• 2022
• 75min

Juhee (Kim Jooryung), a professor of theater, is diagnosed with a possible malignant tumor at the hospital. She goes back to school and tries to settle her affairs but many peopl...

• 2022 ACF Post-Production Fund

Open Cinema

• Shinsuke SATO
• Japan
• 2022
• 134min

Kingdom(2019) was a successful film based on Hara Yasuhisa’s manga series that began publication in 2006. The manga series was also adapted into a popular TV series. Its seq...

World Cinema

• Maryna ER GORBACH
• Ukraine/Turkiye
• 2022
• 101min

2014 Donbas, east of Ukraine. A civilian airplane is shot down by “mistake.” Irka’s husband and her brother have endless quarrels, and pro-Russian Separatist neighbors are no lon...

• Directing Award for World Cinema Dramatic at Sundance Film Festival

Flash Forward

• Andrés RAMÍREZ PULIDO
• Colombia/France
• 2022
• 88min

Eliu and his accomplice arrive at a juvenile detention center/prison camp set deep in the jungle. The young delinquents, who acknowledge themselves as “a junkie, a conman, a thie...

• Grand Prize at Cannes Film Festival Critics′ Week

Wide Angle

• Sohyun PARK
• Korea
• 2022
• 13min

After Jeonghyun helps clean the bathhouse run by her friend Hosu’s family, they take a bath together. Trivial conversations, vague concerns, and daunting future. Their day flows ...

Wide Angle

• Yoon-suk JUNG
• Korea/Hong Kong, China
• 2022
• 150min

Lash is the third feature film by director Jung Yoon-suk, who received attention at home and abroad with Non-fiction Diary and Bamseom Pirates Seoul Inferno....

• 2017 AND BIFF Mecenat Fund