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The Sea Calls for Me
  • Tumpal TAMPUBOLON
  • Indonesia
  • 2021
  • 18min

Sura, an orphaned boy, lives a lonely life in a fishing village, earning a penny for his labor. Wandering the beach in the vague expectation that his father may return, he discover...

  • 부산국제영화제 선재상
Korea Premiere

Special Program in Focus

Vania on Lima Street
  • Bayu Prihantoro FILEMON
  • Indonesia
  • 2022
  • 24min

Vania lives in a large Chinese medicine store. She wants to be helpful to adults but is too young. On a quiet night, she finds an injured thief running away from mobs. She invites ...

Korea Premiere

Special Program in Focus

Dancing Colors
  • M. Reza FAHRIYANSYAH
  • Indonesia
  • 2022
  • 15min

Dika is an adolescent with extraordinary sensitivity. His parents want to have a ritual to turn their son back to “normal.” An imam is summoned to chase the jinn away, but his acti...

  • 로카르노영화제 경쟁
Asian Premiere

Special Program in Focus

Basri & Salma in a Never-Ending Comedy
  • Khozy RIZAL
  • Indonesia
  • 2023
  • 15min

Basri and Salma have been married for five years. Together, they run a small amusement ride for children. Their peaceful daily routines begin to reveal small cracks in their facade...

  • 칸영화제 단편경쟁
World Premiere

Jiseok

At the End of the Film
  • Sunkyoung AHN
  • Korea
  • 2023
  • 175min

After a decade of false starts and failed projects, film director Si-won (Park Jong-hwan) is about to make a mountain movie. However, the film faces another setback, and then the d...

World Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

Scream
  • Kenzhebek SHAIKAKOV
  • Kazakhstan
  • 2023
  • 108min

Born without legs, Melis lives with his young son in a small rural village. There is a weapons test site near the village, but Melis and other villagers lead a peaceful life. Zhalg...

Korea Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

Remembering Every Night
  • Yui KIYOHARA
  • Japan
  • 2022
  • 116min

Remembering Every Night follows three women in one spring day in Tama, a satellite city of Tokyo. Chizu, forty-four, receives a postcard from an old friend inviting her to c...

  • 베를린영화제 포럼
Asian Premiere

Opening Film & Closing Film

The Movie Emperor
  • Hao NING
  • China
  • 2023
  • 125min

In 2006, Ning Hao delighted his fans in Busan with the closing film, Crazy Stone, at the Busan International Film Festival. This year, he returns after seventeen years with ...

World Premiere

Korean Cinema Today

Sorigouldari: The Sound Underpass
  • Ryunhoi GUPASU
  • Korea
  • 2023
  • 67min

In 2046, an AI named Salvation senses the end of the world. A group of artists are the only ones who can stop it. The Resisters, as they call themselves, recognize that their artis...

Korea Premiere

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On the Adamant
  • Nicolas PHILIBERT
  • France/Japan
  • 2023
  • 109min

Adamant is a hospital psychiatric center. This film follows patients, caregivers, and doctors as they travel to and from the center, which floats on the Seine River. The director w...

  • 베를린영화제 황금곰상
Busan Office 3rd Floor, BIFF HILL, Busan Cinema Center, 120, Suyeonggangbyeon-daero, Haeundae-gu, Busan 48058, Korea
Seoul Office #1601, GARDEN TOWER, 84, Yulgok-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul 03131, Korea
Busan Office 3rd Floor, BIFF HILL, Busan Cinema Center, 120, Suyeonggangbyeon-daero, Haeundae-gu, Busan 48058, Korea
Seoul Office #1601, GARDEN TOWER, 84, Yulgok-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul 03131, Korea