20 Short Films you shouldn’t miss at the 17th Busan International Kids and Youth Film Festival (Part 1)

By Asian Film Festival on June 29, 2022 • ( 1 Comment )

These are twenty short films you shouldn’t miss at the 17th Busan International Kids and Youth Film Festival which will take place from July 8 to 17, 2022 in Busan, South Korea.

To see the second part of this article please go here: PART 2

– Selected Shorts –

**A Woman who Drags a Refrigerator** by Kim Gyeong-beom – South Korea | 2022 – 20 minutes
**Section**: Ready – Action! 18

Mi-ok decides to kill herself due to inertia, but her broken refrigerator gets on her nerves. She needs to deal with it as soon as possible. (BIKY 2022)

Screening:
July 15, 2022 | Friday | Busan Cinema Center Cinematheque | 16:20 pm

**Ateh** by Kristie Ko – Hong Kong | 2021 – 24 minutes
**Section**: Embrace the Difference

When a Filipina domestic worker finds herself pregnant in Hong Kong, she asks the little girl she cares for, Lum Lum, to keep it a secret. As Lum Lum prepares for the new baby’s arrival, Janet’s guilt pushes her to play along. How will she come to terms with leaving one child for another? (BIKY 2022)

Screening:
July 15, 2022 | Friday | Busan Cinema Center Cinema 2 | 16:00 pm

**Bad Kid** by A Wise Elementary Life(Seokgot Elementary School in Paju city)
South Korea | 2022 – 21 minutes – **Section**: Ready – Action! 12

Miteum does not believe in Santa. The winter vacation soccer special program is coming up, and Miteum, a soccer lover, wants to participate in the program, but he doesn’t have enough money. Miteum tries to get a special program fee by doing a part-time job, but he is rejected because he is too young to be hired. So Miteum decides to sell his things on the street and earns some money. On his way home, as he sees his brother being bullied and called as a bad child for not receiving a gift from Santa, he spends the money to buy a spinning top for his brother. After returning home, the younger brother, believing Miteum was Santa, told Miteum not to give himself a gift, but to give his brother a gift. One day the teacher asks Miteum to stay and have a talk. (BIKY 2022)

Screening:
July 16, 2022 | Saturday | Busan Cinema Center KOFIC Theatre | 13:00 pm

**Free as a Bird** by Annelies Kruk – Netherlands | 2021 – 15 minutes
**Section**: Finding Myself

Ariana loves to dance with her hairy friend, Mikey her dog. Sadly, she has a ticking bomb inside of her: two kidneys that are not working. If she wants to continue dancing, she must find a donor. She is determined to look for one by posting an online video. But how should you make a video about something that you’re actually so scared of? (BIKY 2022)

**Hair Tie, Egg, Homework Books** by Runxiao Luo – China | 2021 – 15 minutes
**Section**: Finding Myself

As a model student in her elementary school, 11-year-old Lin Yuqi is assigned to give a speech about her family at the Parent’s Meeting tonight. But after Lin finds out that she shares the same secret with a mischievous classmate, she starts to have second thoughts. (BIKY 2022)

Screening:
July 16, 2022 | Saturday | Busan Cinema Center Cinematheque | 19:30 pm

**Maria & Beyonce** by Song Ye-chan – South Korea | 2021 – 28 minutes
**Section**: Special Program – Channel 1016

Mirae, a middle school student, gets a casting offer from a K-pop agency on her way back home from school. As she dreams of becoming a k-pop star that she has never expected before, she looks back on her short life and realizes what she have done could ruin her future career and reputation as a K-pop star. (BIKY 2022)

**My Daddy is an Alien** by Park Ju-hee – South Korea | 2022 – 28 minutes]
**Section**: Beyond the Boundary

One day, an Alien daddy came.

Screening:
July 16, 2022 | Saturday | Busan Cinema Center Cinema 2 | 13:30 pm

**My Feeling are water** by Yu Sung-eun – South Korea | 2021 – 14 minutes
**Section**: Ready – Action! 18

Soo-hyun, a 17 year-old boy, who is shy of showing his feelings in front of others, falls in love with his old childhood friend, and A-rang, a 17 year-old girl, suddenly starts to spout water like a fountain. So he avoids her in fear that she thinks him strange if he spouts water whenever he is in a flutter in front of her. However, that makes their relationship more awkward. (BIKY 2022)

Screening:
July 16, 2022 | Saturday | Busan Cinema Center Cinematheque | 10:00 am

**Piropiro** by Baek Mi-young – South Korea | 2021 – 10 minutes
**Section**: Beyond the Boundary

A bird living in a forest, Piripiro, happens to meet another bird, Dallae, living in a flower shop in a city. Piropiro approaches to Dallae to fly back together to the forest. (BIKY 2022)

Screening:
July 12, 2022 | Tuesday | Busan Cinema Center Cinema 2 | 10:00 am

**Proxy Exam** by Kim Na-kyung – South Korea | 2019 – 17 minutes
**Section**: Special Program – Channel 1016

A daughter of a defector from North Korea, Hyun-joo is stateless. Without an ID, she can’t go to school nor do anything ordinary that a teenager would do. Being unable to even go to her favorite idol’s fan meeting, Hyun-joo decides to borrow Joo-hee’s identity for one day in exchange for taking a proxy exam. (BIKY 2022)

To see the second part of this article please go here: PART 2

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