10 Films you shouldn’t miss at the 17th Busan International Kids and Youth Film Festival

By Asian Film Festival on June 28, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

These are ten 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 the beautiful city of Busan, South Korea.

– Selected Films –

**All of Us** by Pierre Pirard – Belgium | 2022 – 93 minutes
**Section**: Staying Together

What if, away from tensions around questions of identity and the fear of others, we had found other realities? What if we had stories to tell of audacious citizens who, with a strong desire for people of different beliefs to live together in harmony, have found ways of reinventing family, education, social relations, culture, and work… and have done so despite existing difficulties and frictions? What if, thanks to these stories, gathered from around the world, we can begin to see the emergence of what could be the multi-identity and yet harmonious world of tomorrow? And what if we all took part in it? (Biky 2022)

Screening:
July 13, 2022 | Wednesday | Busan Cinema Center Indieplus | 13:30 pm

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**Chun Tae-il** by Hong Jun-pyo – South Korea | 2021 – 99 minutes
**Section**: Staying Together

At the age of 16, Taeil got a job as a sewing assistant at Pyeonghwa Market. He is a warm-hearted person who empties his pocket to buy street cakes for the young fellow workers, knowing that he has to walk home in the morning dew with no penny for a bus ride. His devoted mother passes sleepless nights, waiting for his son Taeil. After his father passed away, Taeil becomes the sole provider of his family. At the age of 19, he finally became a tailor but could not turn a blind eye to the young female workers and his fellows. First coming to know the existence of ‘the Labor Standards Act’, Taeil struggles to change the labor conditions of Pyeonghwa Market. However, he was fired mercilessly, despite his effort. Now, Taeil resolves to become the spark of hope by himself to break through the walls of unjust reality. (Biky 2022)

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**Discrimination** by Kim Ji-woon, Kim Do-hee – South Korea | 2021 – 84 minutes
**Section**: Embrace the Difference

Since 2010, the Japanese government has implemented a free education policy for all high schools in Japan, including international schools. However, only ten Chosun high schools are excluded from the policy because that there is a suspicion that the subsidies could be misappropriated by Jochongnyeon (General Association of Korean Residents in Japan) and others. Five Chosun high schools, protesting against this suspicion, claimed a compensation suit against the Japanese government in 2013. After four years of the hearing process, the verdict of the first trial was made, starting with Hiroshima Korean high school on July 19, 2017. Discrimination is the story of the two-year‘s lawsuit process from the first trial of Osaka Korean high school in July 2017 to the lawsuit of Kyushu Korean high school about the free education in April 2019. And it also tells the struggle of Korean-Japanese people who have been guarding Chosun Schools for more than 70 years and various people supporting Chosun schools in Korea and Japan. (Biky 2022)

Screening:
July 14, 2022 | Thursday | Busan Cinema Center Cinema 2 | 16:30 pm

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**Dreams are like Wild Tigers** by Lars Montag – Germany | 2020 – 97 minutes
**Section**: Finding Myself

Young Ranji’s father finds a job in Germany, so the Indian family moves from Mumbai to Berlin. Ranji’s biggest dream is to dance in a film with his role model, Bollywood star ‘Amir Roshan’. He finds it difficult to feel at home in Germany. When he receives a casting call from his hero in India, he decides to apply for the job. But his father as well as his classmates give him a hard time. His father, who is only interested in facts and figures, even forbids him to submit an application. Moreover, his school gang including Ranji’s neighbour Toni seems to try everything to spoil his life in Germany. (Biky 2022)

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**Farha** by Darin J. Sallam – Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Jordan | 2021 – 92 minutes
**Section**: Special Program – Channel 1016

Farha is a 14 years old girl who lives in Palestine, and she wants to continue her education like her best friend Farida. But when the threat of war hits their village, Farha’s father locks her up in a concealed, small food storage space by the house, promising to return. But he never does. Over the course of the next few days, Farha undergoes a lifechanging experience while buried in the tight dark space. (Biky 2022)

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**My Sunny Maad** by Michaela Pavlátová – Slovakia, Czech Republic, France | 2021 – 82 minutes
**Section**: Embrace the Difference

When Herra, a Czech woman, falls in love with Nazir, an Afghan man, she has no idea about the life that awaits her in post-Taliban Afghanistan, nor about the family she is about to join. (Biky 2022)

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**Sea Boys** by Afshin Hashemi – Iran | 2021 – 95 minutes
**Section**: Finding Myself

SEA BOYS tells the story of two boys living in two opposite sides of the country with a shared story of them losing one of their parents. The one living in the North has lost his father and the one living in the South has lost his mother. Both of them are in search of a substitution for the love of their lost guardian. (Biky 2022)

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**Sons of Cain** by Keti Stamo – Albania, Italy, France | 2021 – 69 minutes
**Section**: Finding Myself

Sons of Cain is a film set in a small village in northern Albania. In this place time is suspended and the severe rules of an old code (KANUN) still dictate life and death of the inhabitants. A group of seven children obliged to live under this code, meet and discuss about the story of Cain and Abel. Creating their own dream space, partially consciously and partially not, they create an analogy between their own stories and the biblical fables. Stuck in the fine line between reality and forgetfulness, this is one of the few chances they have to face their traumas and emotions. (Biky 2022)

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**Two Friends** by Prasun Chatterjee – India | 2021 – 111 minutes
**Section**: Embrace the Difference

The aftermath of Babri Mosque demolition and the Bombay blasts in India, 1992-’93, found its violent echoes even in a remote village of West Bengal adjacent to the India-Bangladesh border where the story begins to unfold. A story of friendship between two little boys belonging to two warring religious communities. Palash is the son of a Hindu Brahmin while Safikul is the son of a Muslim weaver. The innocence of Palash and Safikul receives its sustenance from nature. The greenery of the village, the river and the vast stretch of paddy fields playfully rebound the echoes of the voices and the laughter of the boys. However, relentless fate arrives quietly, when separation becomes the destiny of their friendship. (Biky 2022)

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**Yuri** by Kamila Andini – Singapore, Austria, Indonesia, France | 2021 – 96 minutes
**Section**: Special Program – Channel 1016

Yuni is a teenage girl — smart with big dreams of attending university. When two men she barely knows ask to marry her, she rejects their proposals, sparking gossip about a myth that a woman who rejects three proposals will never marry. The pressure is building when a third man asks for her hand, and Yuni must choose between the myth of a final chance at marriage, or her dream of future happiness. (Biky 2022)

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