The 28th Busan International Film Festival unveils 10 selections from the ‘Today-Vision’ section of Korean Cinema

The 28th Busan International Film Festival unveiled 10 films selected for the 'Today of Korean Cinema - Vision' section that will lead the future of Korean independent films.

This is the section that first presents the latest Korean independent films, and the selected films receive great attention from the domestic and international film industry every year, such as being screened as world premieres at the Busan International Film Festival, officially released in Korea, or receiving love calls from leading film festivals.

Director Lee Ok-seop's 'Catfish' (2018), director Kim Cho-hee's 'Chansil Has Many Corridors' (2019), and director Cho Hyun-cheol's 'You and I' (2022) are representative works discovered by Korean Cinema Today - Vision. Director Yoo Ji-young's 'Birth' (2022), an invited film last year, won the grand prize in the Proxima competition section of the 2023 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. This year, 10 works with mature themes that ask questions to the audience, focusing on life, suffering, family love, and the inner self of the individual, were selected for 'Korean Cinema Today - Vision', which has been reborn as a cradle for discovering Korean independent films and new directors.

Director Jang Min-jun's 'Delivery' contains a tense irony between a wealthy couple struggling with infertility and a poor young couple struggling with an unplanned pregnancy. Director Lee Mi-rang's 'About My Daughter' is an introspective drama that depicts the problems of oneself and others with a mature touch, focusing on the relationship between a mother and daughter.

Director Kim Da-min's 'Makgeolli Will Tell You' is a fascinating comic fantasy about an elementary school student who accidentally picks up a can of makgeolli at a training center and learns the secrets of the world from makgeolli. Director Kim Yu-min's 'Bayam Island' humorously depicts the strange drifting story of three men who, while going to war on a turtle ship, were shipwrecked and washed up on an uninhabited island.

Director Gupasu Ryun Hoi's 'Soligul Bridge' is an ingenious performance play and docu-fiction about a group of artists in the near future who face the end of the Earth in an effort to prevent it. Director Oh Jeong-min's 'Eldest Son' captures the complex and diverse joys and sorrows of a three-generation family that runs a tofu factory for three generations with a neat composition and gentle perspective.

Director Choi Seung-woo's 'Last Summer' depicts a season of a young man, his family, and local residents living in a quiet rural village in a quiet yet mature manner. 'Hanchae', a co-directed film by directors Jeong Beom and Heo Jang, is a precarious and heartbreaking story of a woman and a young man who pretend to be family to get a house.

Director Park Hong-jun's 'Things to Do' is an intimate yet solid story of a young employee in the human resources department in charge of restructuring falling into emotional distress and conflict due to the things he has to do. Director Yeon Je-gwang's 'Motel Murder Case No. 301' is a breathtaking confrontation and chase between a killer and fugitives who are chased after a murder that takes place in a shabby motel on the outskirts.

The 28th Busan International Film Festival will be held in the Busan Cinema Center area for 10 days starting October 4.

Reporter Ha-neul Lee, Ten Asia greenworld@tenasia.co.kr