20 Short Films you shouldn’t miss at the 17th Busan International Kids and Youth Film Festival (Part 2)

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

We continue with our list of short films that 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 first part of this article please go here: PART 1

– Selected Shorts –

**Reflection** by Sanna de Vries – Netherlands | 2021 – 4 minutes
**Section**: Beyond the Boundary

Mirrors cover every inch of Fiep’s little house. As she stares at her own reflection, Fiep focuses on her flaws so intensely that they literally grow gigantic… and turns her into some kind of mutation of all her imperfections. Overwhelmed with this sight of herself, Fiep fights her way through the door, into the ferocious winter landscape that surrounds her home -running away as far as possible… (BIKY 2022)

**Run** by Hong Ye-in – South Korea | 2021 – 29 minutes
**Section**: Ready – Action! 18

Na-gil is having a hard time because her track records hardly get improved, and Jian, who also loves running like Na-gil, encounters her mother’s opposition. The two want to run happily, but it is not easy at all. (BIKY 2022)

Screening:
July 14, 2022 | Thursday | Busan Cinema Center Cinematheque | 16:30 pm

**Secret Friend** by Kim Gyu-ree – South Korea | 2022 – 19 minutes
**Section**: Ready – Action! 15

15-year-old Haesol is indifferent to everything. On the other hand, Byeolha, her classmate, is active. One day, Byeolha suggested to have a game, called “Manito” (a secret friend game). Haesol picks Byeolha as her secret friend, but she has no intention of participating in the game. A few days later, Haesol finds a letter from her manito, saying “I will give a homework. Find three things you like, I will help you make your life more exciting. (BIKY 2022)

Screening:
July 16, 2022 | Saturday | Busan Cinema Center Cinema 2 | 10:30 am

**String** by Ryu Seong-hwan – South Korea | 2022 – 17 minutes
**Section**: Ready – Action! 18

At the endless dark dawn, a student writes something and agonizes at his desk. A woman walking in the hallway, is followed by something. A student tied with a string around his wrist takes the test. Suddenly, something is connected to the string. Two men crossing the road, are connected with a string. In the middle of the road, one of the men stops walking and a car runs toward them. (BIKY 2022)

Screening:
July 14, 2022 | Thursday | Busan Cinema Center Cinematheque | 16:30 pm

**Suicidal Student** by Park Jun-hyeok – South Korea | 2021 – 15 minutes
**Section**: Special Program : Channel 1016

Minjae, a high-schooler, wants to die. (BIKY 2022)

**The Right Words** by Adrian Moyse Dullin – France | 2021 – 15 minutes
**Section**: Staying Together

Kenza, 15, and her little brother Madhi, 13, regularly humiliate one another on social media. On the bus, Kenza puts her naive and romantic little brother to the test: to profess his love for Jada, the girl that Madhi loves, even though she does not know him. Placed under pressure by his sister, Madhi plucks up the courage to confess. (BIKY 2022)

Screening:
July 10, 2022 | Sunday | Busan Cinema Center Cinematheque | 10:40 am

**The Silent Echo** by Suman Sen – Nepal, Bangladesh, India, France | 2021 – 16 minutes
**Section**: Finding Myself

Mustang region – Nepal. Four teenagers, from a remote mountain village, spend their days in an abandoned bus on a ridge, playing music. When a band competition is organized in a neighbor town, they gather money and courage to be part of it. (BIKY 2022)

Trailer:
July 15, 2022 | Friday | Busan Cinema Center Cinema 2 | 13:00 pm

**The Sound of the Shell** by Kim Jung-min – South Korea | 2021 – 20 minutes
**Section**: Ready – Action! 18

Lee-On was sent to her grandmother‘s house in the countryside after her parents died in an accident. However, she feels ill at ease with her grandmother. (BIKY 2022)

Screening:
July 15, 2022 | Friday | Busan Cinema Center Cinema 2 | 18:40 pm

**Today’s Superpower** by Lee Min-seob – South Korea | 2021 – 25 minutes
**Section**: Embrace the Difference

My friends got superpowers from aliens when they were young. And now they’re adults. But, strangely they say they cannot use them any more. Are they true? And why did they lose superpowers? (BIKY 2022)

Screening:
July 9, 2022 | Saturday | Busan Cinema Center Cinema 2 | 13:00 pm

**Village Heroes** by Kim Ha-young – South Korea | 2021 – 21 minutes
**Section**: Staying Together

Only Soon-sim, who is about to graduate from a well-known film school, fails to get film production subsidies. With no money and no staff, she has no choice but to go to her hometown, ‘Yong-duk Village’ and ask the village people for help to make her film. This is a story about the villagers who don’t know anything about film-making and Soon-sim who has to complete her film anyway! With clumsy help from the villagers, could Soon-sim graduate from her school? (BIKY 2022)

Screening:
July 10, 2022 | Sunday | Busan Cinema Center Cinematheque | 14:00 pm

To see the first part of this article please go here: PART 1

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