The 37th Busan International Short Film Festival presents three opening films: one from this year¡¯s Guest Country Belgium, one noteworthy Asian film, and one Korean Film.
The first film, ¡¶The Golden Legend¡·, features in the ¡°Belgium Panorama¡± program. The film offers oddly peculiar and fast-paced images that dominate the mind of a psychiatric patient as if they are museum displays, revealing a dense collection of cursed musicians, murderers, fairground freaks, paranoiac revolutionaries, bygone artists, and recluses.
Coming from India, the second film is ¡¶Tungrus¡·, presented in the ¡°Curtain Call¡± program. Both hilarious and entertaining while also detailing a very unique case of home invasion and emotional abuse, this short documentary about the special bond between humans and their pets enjoyed a stellar festival run following its world premiere at the 2018 Visions du Réel International Film Festival in Nyon (Switzerland).
The third film is ¡¶ID Card¡·, which was selected as the ¡°2020 BISFF Short Film Project¡±. This film is about the existential crisis that an individual goes through at work. Calmly contemplating today¡¯s Korea, it shows how mutual understanding and solidarity between people disappear under the capitalistic system.
Olivier Smolders
Belgium2015Fiction, Documentary24'DCPColorEnglish Sub15
Rishi Chandna
India2018Documentary12'54"DCPColorEnglish Sub12
Yoon Haesung
Korea2020Fiction18'57"HDColorEnglish Sub15