The Busan International Film Festival has unveiled 23 features for its Vision Korea and Vision Asia sections, filling out its showcase for Korean and Asian independent cinema ahead of the reveal of this year’s main competition slate.
BIFF selected 12 films for Vision Korea and 11 for Vision Asia. The two strands were introduced last year, part of a broader overhaul that also saw Busan launch its first formal main competition section. The festival describes its Vision program as a showcase for new Korean and Asian independent cinema. The section grew out of Korean Cinema Today – Vision, which traditionally focused on emerging Korean filmmakers. When Busan expanded Visions’ remit to cover all of Asia, it also broadened the section to include mid-career directors alongside newcomers.
Among the Korean selections, Park Kun-young returns with Things I Left at the Theater, a drama about a film journalist searching for an old friend’s short film. Jang Woojin brings Cosmic Trace, centered on two people reflecting on love, loss, chance and fate at the boundary between life and death. Kim Miyoung, whose A Lonely Island in the Distant Sea won Busan’s DGK Megabox Award in 2023, is back with Some Detective, about a writer confronted by figures from her past. Both Some Detective and Shin Dongmin’s Not For You received post-production support from BIFF’s Asian Cinema Fund this year. (The full Visions lineup is below.)
