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Self-Portrait: Fairy Tale in 47KM
  • Mengqi ZHANG
  • China
  • 2021
  • 109min

In 2019, director Zhang Mengqi spent her ninth winter in the village of "47KM" in Hebei Province. "47KM" is her father′s hometown, and she′s completed a film every time she visited...

World Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

24
  • Royston TAN
  • Singapore/Thailand
  • 2021
  • 77min

Two men are passionately engaging in a sexual romp in a bedroom, when a sound engineer suddenly appears, unnoticed. He is in the process of capturing sounds for a very specific col...

World Premiere

Wide Angle

206: Unearthed
  • Chul-nyung HEO
  • Korea/Thailand
  • 2021
  • 93min

After the dissolution of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which was launched as a South Korean government organization in 2005, civic groups and bereaved families wishing t...

  • 2018 AND 비프메세나펀드
World Premiere

Wide Angle

Sarira
  • Mingyang LI
  • China
  • 2021
  • 28min

A middle-aged Buddhist monk in a small temple suffers from increasing tooth pain. To complicate matters, he must endure the construction noise of the development that will eventual...

Asian Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

Shankar′s Fairies
  • Irfana MAJUMDAR
  • India
  • 2021
  • 93min

Lucknow, northern India, in 1962. In the upper-class family of a high-ranking police officer, Shankar is an indispensable servant. To Anjana who attends a Catholic school and her l...

  • 로카르노영화제 현재의감독경쟁
World Premiere

Wide Angle

Suicidal Student
  • Jun-hyeok PARK
  • Korea
  • 2021
  • 15min

High school student Minjae wants to die. He jumps out of a classroom window, but instead of dying, he is forced to see the school counselor. The audience will soon become sympathet...

World Premiere

Wide Angle

Salvador Dali
  • Eldiar MADAKIM
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • 2021
  • 19min

Orozbek, a joyful boy who loves to draw, lives with his grandmother in a remote village deep in the snowy mountains. He has to walk a long distance to school, and one day the strea...

Asian Premiere

Wide Angle

A.rtificial I.mmortality
  • Ann SHIN
  • Canada
  • 2021
  • 74min

If you were able to create an immortal version of yourself, would you? Until this decade, that question was the stuff of science fiction, but now experts in the fields of artificia...

World Premiere

Wide Angle

TARGET
  • Shinji NISHIJIMA
  • Japan
  • 2021
  • 100min

In 1991, the issue of "comfort women" was raised for the first time through the testimony of the late Kim Hak-sun. One of the first reporters in Japan to write an article about her...

World Premiere

Korean Cinema Today

A Bit Different.
  • Woodong LEE
  • Korea
  • 2021
  • 61min

In the darkness of night, a man and a woman walk in an alley sharing a cigarette. They are detectives working together. Their story is complicated: They are about to make up a scen...

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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