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No Other Land
True Story
Politics
History/War
Basel is a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta in the West Bank. From a young age, he has resisted the forced evictions by the Israeli military and documented the harsh realities of his village. He befriends Yuval, a young Israeli journalist who comes to write articles that are helpful for Palestine, and an unexpected bond that forms between them. Yet there is also an unbridgeable divide, as they live in completely different worlds just 30 minutes apart. This unique film, created over four years from 2019 by four Israeli and Palestinian activists, uses the camera as the ultimate weapon in exposing the harsh realities of Palestinian resistance, as a tool for dialogue in an improbable friendship, and as a means to preserve the memory of a village on the brink of disappearing. (JO Ji-hoon)
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Youth (Homecoming)
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 (Homecoming)
is the third chapter in the trilogy of films that follow the workers in the workshops of Zhili, following
Youth (Hard Times)
. In 2016, the workers return home for the Spring Festival. Mu Fei and Dong Mingyan embark on long journeys to visit their parents and relatives, bearing gifts, yet they worry about the future. Shi Wei and Liang Xianglian return to their hometown in the mountains to hold a traditional wedding. Chen Qingtao returns home alone and eats with his parents in silence. Fang Lingping heads home with her husband. Each to their own home, and then back to Zhili. In 2018, during the Spring Festival, Lin Shao and Chen Wenting visit home for the first time after their wedding and the birth of their child. Everyone returns home. Yet late at night, a man remains in an empty factory, working alone. It is the Lunar New Year. (JUNG Sung-il)
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May I Say? Chapter 2
Comedy/Satire
“Retirement is not on my mind, and I find joy in continuing to work and create new stories.” This is what the 82-year-old maestro Marco Bellocchio says. The first chapter of his comedy short film series
May I Say? Chapter 1
, first released in 2021, begins with 50-year-old Fausto returning to his hometown of Bobbio after his mother’s death. Fausto, who often approaches strangers with somewhat rude advice, always starts with, “May I say?” This reflects the director’s own critical and comic observation of Italian society. The second chapter, introduced today, takes place three years after his mother’s death. Fausto, who still lives in his mother’s house, has no intention of working. Several people visit him one after the other, encouraging him to sell the house. Fausto responds to these hypocritical visitors without being aggressive, stating that he will not change his way of life. This amusing and refreshing short film series clearly reflects Bellocchio’s pursuit of complete independence, much like the characters in his own films, with no concern for honor. (SEO Seunghee)
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
The Girl with the Needle
Psychology/Mystery/Suspence/Thriller
True Story
Women
Revenge
History/War
In the early 20th century, Karoline, desperate to make ends meet while working at a textile factory that produces military supplies, suddenly finds herself out on the streets. Pregnant with an illegitimate child, she wanders through the alleys of Copenhagen, until Dagmar, offering a glimmer of hope, extends a helping hand. With the prospect of placing the child for adoption with a wealthy family, the two grow closer. However, the reality Karoline faces is far more wretched, and the truth about Dagmar is nothing short of horrifying.
The Girl with the Needle
feels like a strange and brutal fairy tale. In the woods, when a girl is lost and falls under the spell of a witch, what choice does she really have? Can it even be called a ‘choice?’ Throughout the consistently grim, monochromatic atmosphere, Karoline, with her weary expression, is not a girl dreaming of transforming a frog into a prince with a kiss. The girl with the needle clings to life, refusing to let go of her attachment to it, in a desolate attempt to escape the cruel wheel of misfortune. (Karen PARK)
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)
Wide Angle
My Stolen Planet
Family/Child
True Story
Women
Politics
Narrated in the form of a reflective diary, the documentary has two main parts. One is about resisting the power that demands forgetting by remembering a free past; the other is about documenting the past and present struggle for women’s freedom. To do this, the director captures a free and happy past via personal footage and super 8mm film footage collected from the streets, and reconstructs the past and present of women fighting to reclaim a world that has been taken away from them, focusing on the 2022 anti-hijab protests. In doing so, it shows that the hijab is not just a meter-long piece of fabric, but a symbol of power that seeks to control people’s daily lives and desires. This is a “homemade history” of Iranian women, documenting their reality, their past and present history, and the battle between memory and oblivion. (JO Ji-hoon)
Special Program in Focus
Fishbone
Family/Child
Coming of Age
Eighteen-year-old Li Qi is confident and skilled in handling difficult customers at her mother’s fish shop in the local market. After refusing her mother’s suggestion to repeat a year after failing her college entrance exams, Li Qi accidentally breaks Xiaowei’s iPhone during a fight at Xiaowei’s birthday party. Thus begins her struggle to buy a new iPhone for Xiao Wei. The world is harsh and unforgiving to an 18-year-old who has not successfully transitioned from high school to college. As Li Qi stands at the boundary between adolescence and adulthood, her sense of hopelessness, anxiety, and pain is metaphorically represented by the pain of a fishbone stuck in her throat. With its intricately woven narrative and compelling conflicts between characters, the film won the New Talent Award for Best Screenplay at the Shanghai International Film Festival and Best Actress at the Xining FIRST International Film Festival. (PARK Sun Young)
Special Program in Focus
I Am the Secret in Your Heart
Remake/Adaptation
Love/Romance
Coming of Age
Xiaoxia and Yuzu have been close since childhood, enough for their friends to call Xiaoxia “Yuzu’s wife.” Yet one day, their relationship begins to strain when a perfect transfer student named Cheng Yih arrives. Xiaoxia and Cheng Yih are drawn to each other, complicating Yuzu’s feelings as he watches from the sidelines. Based on a novel by a Taiwanese author that has also been translated into Korean, this is a perfect film to continue the tradition of Taiwanese youth romance films. The film stirs our emotions by evoking the nostalgia of first love, sometimes in a lively and comedic way, and at other times in a poignant and bittersweet manner. It features charming performances by the lead actors Tsao Yu Ning and Lee Moon, who have an active presence in recent Taiwanese films and drama series, and SHOU, who is a boy group singer and actor. (PARK Sun Young)
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A Traveler’s Needs
Hong Sangsoo’s 31st film,
A Traveler’s Needs
, true to its title, navigates through the non-verbal moments found in the steps of a traveler. Iris (Isabelle Huppert), who came from France, wanders around Seoul, teaching French. When she’s not teaching, she spends time in parks or hills, meeting various people. She enjoys walking barefoot on the ground, lying on rocks, and most of all, she loves makgeolli (Korean rice wine). Like Hong Sangsoo’s previous works, this film leaves certain moments open for interpretation, capturing resonant instances with calmness, much like the rhythm and cadence of poetry through repetition and variation. As you match your pace with Iris’ steps, curious about what a traveler truly needs, you’ll gradually find yourself realizing why the foreign perspectives and unfamiliar air that a traveler brings are essential to our lives. (SONG Kyung-won)
World Cinema
Familia
Family/Child
Crime/Violence
True Story
Una Femmina: The Code of Silence
(2022), delves deeper into the same themes in
Familia
. Opening with partially blurred flashbacks, both films follow protagonists recovering from distorted memories of the past to uncover the truth. The father, after painful years in and out of prison, seeks to reunite with his family. Though the family accepts his tearful apology, his old violent tendencies and paranoia soon resurface.
Familia
contrasts the father, who controls the family, with the son, who gets involved in an extremist organization, as he grapples with the cycle of violence passed through generations. The film is an allegory that flips the “prodigal son” narrative and reinterprets the hero of the Greek tragedy through the protagonist struggling to escape the chains of fate. (LEE Yong Cheol)
Korean Cinema Today
Inserts
Love/Romance
Films about Films
Comedy/Satire
Jin Joo-seok works as an insert director on a commercial movie set. When Ma Chu-hyun, who has a strange aura, joins the film team, the two become close and spend the night together. However, the next day, Ma Chu-hyun gets angry with Jin Joo-seok for some reason. Afterwards, Jin Joo-seok waits for Ma Chu-hyun with a longing heart. This is the second feature film by director Lee Jong-su, who was invited to the New Currents section and won the KB New Currents Audience Award with
Heritage
(2023). Like in his previous work, sudden dark humor continues to shine in this film. The unpredictable and distinctive characters are also charming. The film creates an unfamiliar rhythm with witty dialogue, situations, and irregular twists, occasionally suddenly stopping to capture beautiful landscapes and portraits from time to time. It is a sarcastic commentary on cinema, yet above all, a poignant, biting, and charming love story. (JUNG Hanseok)
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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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Program Director NAM Dong-chul
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. Program Director NAM Dong-chul "Notable Japanese and Iranian Films" Two new films by Kurosawa Kiyoshi Serpent's Path (2024) Cloud Kurosawa Kiyoshi, the recipient of this year’s Asian Filmmaker of the Year Award, released two new feature films in 2024: Serpent’s P
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