These are fifteen feature films you shouldn’t miss at the Seoul International Children’s Film Festival (Korea) which will take place from June 15 – 22, 2022.

– Selected Films –

Ebrahim is twelve. He lives with his mother and five siblings of all ages in a two-roomed shack in the heart of desert, far away from the village. Aside from feeding the children and obtaining a birth certificate for them, the main preoccupation of Ebrahim and his mother is to build a house in the village so they don’t have to walk all the way back and forth all the time… (SICFF 2022)

Screening:
June 19, 2022 | Sunday | CINEQ Sindorim 10 | 17:00 pm
June 21, 2022 | Thursday | CINEQ Sindorim 5 | 10:40 am

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Astrid LINDGREN is shown growing up with her parents, a brother and two sisters in the countryside near Vimmerby Sweden on their farm, from age 16 up: going to church, attending dances, helping on the farm. She is offered an internship with the local newspaper after they published her essay. She has an affair with the unhappily married and older newspaper editor. When she becomes pregnant, he sends her to Stockholm for secretarial school.   (SICFF 2022)

Screening:
June 20, 2022 | Monday | CINQ Sindorim 7 | 11:20 am

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Suzu is a shy, everyday high school student living in a rural village. For years, she has only been a shadow of herself. But when she enters “U”, a massive virtual world, she escapes into her online persona as Belle, a gorgeous and globally-beloved singer. One day, her concert is interrupted by a monstrous creature chased by vigilantes. As their hunt escalates, Suzu embarks on an emotional and epic quest to uncover the identity of this mysterious “beast” and to di scover her true self in a world where you can be anyone. (SICFF 2022)

Screening:
June 20, 2022 | Monday | CINEQ Sindorim 5 | 14:00 pm

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Kenza lives with her father Ouira and grandfather Weljo in the countryside of Curaçao. Ouira is a determined and rational police officer, while Weljo identifies with the original inhabitants and spirituality. As Weljo prepares his passing to the world of spirits, the relationship between them starts to escalate and Kenza searches for her own path.  (SICFF 2022)

Screening:
June 18, 2022 | Saturday | CINEQ Sindorim 9 | 13:00 pm

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Two best friends Mahmoud and Fawzi, living in the Zaatari Refugee Camp in Jordan, have an undying dream of becoming professional soccer players while facing the difficult reality of their lives. Despite being confined under dire conditions, they remain hopeful and practice day in and day out. When a world-renowned sports academy visits, both have a chance to make this dream come true.  (SICFF 2022)

Screening:
June 17, 2022 | Friday | CINEQ Sindorim 5 | 13:15 pm

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As a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults) Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family’s fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her Love of music by wanting to go to Berklee College of Music and her fear of abandoning her Parents. (SICFF 2022)

Screening:
June 17, 2022 | Friday | CINEQ Sindorim 10 | 18:00 pm

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Nabi, a veteran fire officer, accepts the coming out from her child Hankyeol, “I want to remove my breasts.” Meanwhile, Vivian, a flight crew, receives a letter from her son Yejoon, “Mom, I’m gay.” Hankyeol and Yejoon confide in their struggles even before the two mothers understand their reality.  (SICFF 2022)

Screening:
June 21, 2022 | Thursday | CINEQ Sindorim 9 | 19:00 pm

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Japan’s policy of free high school implemented in 2013. However, only 10 Korean high schools are excluded from this policy. The reason is that there is a suspicion that the free subsidies will be misappropriated by the Chongryon(General Association of Korean Residents in Japan) and others.  Five Korean high schools that protested this claim a compensation suit against the state in 2013. After four years of hearing, the first trial will be decided, starting with Hiroshima  Korean high school on July 19, 2017. Discrimination’ is the story of a two-year lawsuit process from the first trial ruling in the Osaka Korean high school lawsuit in July 2017 to a high school free lawsuit at Kyushu Korean high school in April 2019, and the struggle of Korean-Japanese,  Korean school students, and lawyers who have been guarding Korean School for more than 70 years. (SICFF 2022)

Screening:
June 18, 2022 | Saturday | CINEQ Sindorim 9 | 19:10 pm
June 20, 2022 | Monday | CINEQ Sindorim 5 | 19:30 pm

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A 14-year-old girl in 1948 Palestine watches from a locked pantry as catastrophe consumes her home.  (SICFF 2022)

Screening:
June 15, 2022 | Wednesday | CINEQ Sindorim 2 | 16:00 pm

Trailer:

Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko” is the heartwarming and moving comedy drama of an unconventional family – a not-so-ordinary mother-and-daughter pair who live their lives to the fullest. Easy-going, cheerful, passionate and always ready to eat something delicious, mother Nikuko falls hard for the bad guys. Her happy motto:  “Ordinary is best of all!” Naturally Nikuko’s loud and bold spirit embarrasses 11-year-old Kikuko, her daughter on the verge of puberty. With nothing in common except living together on a boat at the port, a miracle occurs when their secret is revealed. (SICFF 2022)

Screening:
June 19, 2022 | Sunday | CINEQ Sindorim 9 | 16:40 pm

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Sumi is a high school senior raised at an orphanage and who has nowhere to lean on. When she decides to turn her back on her hopes and commit suicide, a hospice nurse Seojin dramatically stops her. (SICFF 2022)

Screening:
June 18, 2022 | Saturday | CINEQ Sindorim 1 | 15:00 pm

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The film revolves around slum dweller Kanku, whose parents are street vendors. Once while playing; Kanku’s friend Kiara tells her that her father is a ‘Superhero’. Kanku also wants to believe that her father is a ‘Superhero’. The film is about Kanku’s struggle to prove that her father is a Superhero. (SICFF 2022)

Screening:
June 16, 2022 | Thursday | CINEQ Sindorim 5 | 14:00 pm

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At Pyonghwa Market in the 1970s, there were the girls often called, “shida,” or “gongsuni,” meaning the girls working at garment factories using the sewing machines instead of attending schools only because they were girls or from poor families. They attended the night classes with their own dreams. There, they called their names each other, sung, and dreamed together. The letter from the youth at a different time to the youth of today.  (SICFF 2022)

Screening:
June 16, 2022 | Thursday | CINEQ Sindorim 10 | 19:00 pm

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When we were young, our caregivers were our entire world. But today, this castle is fragile. Kwong is a Primary 5 student who has to contend with school and parents who constantly argue. Kwong loves everything related to space; he suffers from insomnia and loss. One day, Kwong disappears…SOS. (SICFF 2022)

Screening:
June 19, 2022 | Sunday | CINEQ Sindorim 2 | 13:30 pm

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Hyun-soo, the fastest 100 meter player in Korea in the past. Junseo, a short-range player who is still a high school student, but is getting higher. Currently, Jung Ho, the fastest sprinter in Korea. The three players prepare for the national team selection for their own reasons. (SICFF 2022)

Screening:
June 17, 2022 | Friday | CINEQ Sindorim 5 | 15:30 pm
June 22, 2022 | Wednesday | CINEQ Sindorim 10 | 11:00 am

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