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- A transient young man breaks into empty homes to partake of the vacationing residents' lives for a few days.
- A father driven into desire, a son coveting that of his father's and the sorrowful maternity that hovers them into tragedy.
- An unfeeling gangster seeks to ruin the life of a young girl who rejected him. He forces her into prostitution and spies on her regularly, then he soon begins to fall for her.
- A boy is raised by a Buddhist monk in an isolated floating temple where the years pass like the seasons.
- Working at a fishing resort in an idyllic location, but surrounded by various facets of human unpleasantness, a young mute woman falls in love with a man on the run from the law for committing murder.
- A loan shark is forced to reconsider his violent lifestyle after the arrival of a mysterious woman claiming to be his long-lost mother.
- To save her relationship, a woman puts herself through extensive plastic surgery.
- A North Korean fisherman breaks his boat engine by accident and drifts down to South Korea. After enduring brutal investigations in the South, he eventually gets sent back to North Korea.
- Jae-Young is an amateur prostitute who sleeps with men while her best friend Yeo-Jin "manages" her, fixing dates, taking care of the money and making sure the coast is clear. When Jae-Young falls in love with one of those man she suppresses her feelings towards him in respect of her friend who's jealous.
- Streetwise Jin-a moves into a boarding house run by a small, close-knit family. But her unacceptable behavior threatens to destroy them all.
- A love story involving a convicted prisoner who "slowly falls for a woman who decorates his prison cell".
- Romances end in blood and the frail hopes of individuals are torn apart in a vile karmic continuity of colonialism, civil war and occupation. After surviving Japanese colonization, Korea became the first war zone of the Cold War. The legacy of war remains today in this divided country.
- On a fishing boat at sea, a 60-year old man has been raising a girl since she was a baby. It is agreed that they will get married on her 17th birthday, and she is 16 now. They live a quiet and secluded life, renting the boat to day fishermen and practicing strange divination rites. Their life changes when a teenage student comes aboard...
- A gangster who wants to be an actor; an actor more gangster than anything. Here their paths and lives begin to cross.
- People from all sorts of backgrounds set sail on a warship. They get drunk on alcohol, drugs and sex. Later, everyone grows tired and falls asleep, then the ship enters an unknown space enveloped in fog.
- Seventy short films about cinema and its future.
- Eun-young is a woman cursed with great beauty. Wherever she goes, she gets unwanted admiration from men and jealousy from women. One day, one of her stalking admirer invades her place.
- Girl-1 bound by a traditional family and household. One day she meets Girl-2 with the same appearance. From this moment on, these two people change roles and help each other. But the further it goes on.
- One on One: After a high school student is murdered, the seven suspects are hunted down by members of a terrorist organization.
- Anticipation of Love has settled in a heart of a young lady. The borders between dream and passion are very elusive. Life is full of physical deprivations and sensual pleasures and the deep meaning of that all is Love of course. The deeper the feeling the more intense emotions. Each girl dreams to meet her love one day.
- In the aftermath of a car crash, a man discovers his dreams are tied to a stranger's sleepwalking.
- Rough Play displays the life of Oh Young (Lee Joon), an young cocky actor who plays a lead part on a small play. He constantly goes off script and improvises in which results in destroying the play because the lead actress can't handle it. Oh Young knows he is a good actor and is noticed by manager Kim Jang-Ho (Seo Bum-Suk), who has hit rock bottom and is looking for a comeback. Jang-Ho knows the young actor's potential and puts all he has on the line to make Oh Young the next big thing. However, the more famous Oh Young gets, he becomes more and more cocky taking his career and the people close to him for granted. This movie will portray the downfall of a young cocky actor after reaching the top in his career.
- The top movies of the past year are honored at the 93rd Academy Awards, with Mank (2020), in the lead with 10 nominations, as well as The Father (2020), Judas and the Black Messiah (2021), Nomadland (2020) and Sound of Metal (2019).
- A woman forms a twisted bond with a homeless violent thug who prevented her suicide.
- A member of Coast Guard Platoon 23, Private Kang monitors a high-infiltration stretch of beach lined with barbed-wire fencing. Driven by the belief that killing a spy is the highest honor, he waits for a chance to prove his worth.
- Seung-Yeon (Lee Eun-Woo) wants to have a baby. So-Young (Jeon Soo-Jin) wants to have an abortion. Seung-Yeon asks So-Young to give birth and give the baby to her. The two women go to a house in the countryside and live together waiting for So-Young to give birth, but they face an unforeseen danger.
- Antonio Gasset hosts this show in which recently released movies and DVDs are thoughtfully discussed in a documentary-like way.
- The film follows a South Korean artist as he systematically seeks out, and then guns down his real or imagined enemies.
- Documentary on director Kim Ki-Duk looking back at his film career.
- Two Korean ex-pats meet in Paris by chance encounter. One a petty thief and wannabe artist/painter (Chong-Hae), the other a tough guy (Hong San). Hong San saves Chong-Hae from a gang of thugs and the two become friends. Seizing an opportunity, Chong-Hae and Hong San perform martial arts stunts on the streets for money.
- A young man crosses over North and South Korea to deliver the pain and longings of separated families.
- The story of a young married couple who were exposed to radiation during the meltdown at Japan's Fukushima nuclear reactor.
- A group of North Korean spies, disguised as an ordinary South Korean family, work as spies in South Korea.
- Pororo and his friends play in the snow outside, then they stumble into The Snow Fairy village, the Giant Lava Monster captures all of the snow faeries and threatens to melt them in lava. Pororo and his friends must stop them.
- A journey of a Korean girl who wanders around Europe to find her boyfriend.
- It's David versus Goliath when a man, Chen, uncovers a corporate conspiracy involving eels tainted by mercury. As he sneaks into South Korea to investigate, Chen finds a connection with a woman named Mi.
- Kim Gang-il was mobilized as a paratrooper to suppress the May 18 Gwangju Democratization Protests in 1980. Working as a forklift driver after retirement, he follows some inconvenient truths that had been buried all those years ago.
- Filmmaker Hermann Vaske explores the creative Balkan world in the hopes of understanding the meaning of "Balkan spirit", by interviewing philosopher Slavoj Žižek and various artists. However, the term's complexity very quickly becomes apparent and it seems increasingly difficult, if not impossible, to define the Balkans' geographical location, its people and its culture. Indeed, contradiction, chaos and change is at the Balkans very core.
- 663114 is a short but hard-hitting monologue of a 66-year-old cicada. The insect draws parallels between the catastrophes of Hiroshima and Fukushima and poses a fundamental question about the future of our planet. 66 is the number of years since Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed by Little Boy and Fat Man. 3/11 is the date of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and following disastrous tsunami. 4 is the number of reactors emitting radiation from the Fukushima Daichii plant.
- Movies in theaters, festivals from all around the world, upcoming industrial news, special movie lists, valuable guests and more.
- Former festival director Kim Dong-ho returns to BIFF, this time as subject in Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf's documentary about Kim's life, work and influence on Korean cinema. Following Kim as he made his own short film, Makhmalbaf unveils the amiable side of the industry legend.