The Seoul International Women’s Film Festival announced the selected films for the Discovery, Asian Shorts, and I-Teens Competition. The festival will take place from August 24 – 30, 2023 in Seoul, Korea.

Discovery
Banu by Tahmina Rafaella – Azerbaijan, France, Iran
Birth by Yoo Ji-young – Korea
Family Time by Tia Kouvo – Finland, Sweden
In Her Room by Ito Chihiro – Japan
Milisuthando by Milisuthando Bongela – South Africa
Petrol by Alena Lodkina – Australia
Piaffe by Ann Oren – Germany
Saving a Dragonfly by Hong Daye – Korea
Sister, What Grows Where Land Is Sick? by Franciska Eliassen – Norway
A Table for Two by Kim Boram – Korea
Tótem by Lila Avilés – Mexico, Denmark, France
Until Branches Bend by Sophie Jarvis – Canada, Switzerland

Asian Shorts
As Long as There’s Us by Yizhuo – China
Bride Stone by Guzel Duishenkulova – Kyrgyzstan
Bug by Myoung Sejin – Korea
Dim Star by Li Tianchen – Taiwan
Emma & Youisoo by Kim  Mi-jo – Korea
Engraved by Kimlee Vatae – Korea
Fade Out by Kwon Minryeong – Korea
Fly Me to the Sea by Rox Kexin Li – China
Ghost Play by Kim Hyunjung – Korea
House of Existence by Joung Yumi – Korea
Jiwon and Yulia by Moon Haejun – Korea
Jumping Club by Chae Jihee – Korea
The Lee Families by Seo Jeong-mi – Korea
Muse by Cho Yoonbin – Korea
An Ordinary Day by Gim Ju-yeon – Korea
Shallots & Garlic by Andrea Nirmala Widjajanto – Indonesia, Canada
Spasm by Sahra Asadollahi – Iran
Teleporting by Kwon Ohyeon, Nam Arum, Tanzawa Chifumi, Noka Nana – Korea, Japan
When the Whistle Sounded by Hsieh Li-Ling – Taiwan
Yours Truly by Lee Ji-woo – Korea

I-Teens
Bohemian in School by Yun Hyemin – Korea
The College Entrance Exam Is Scarier Than the Ghost! by Hong Yein, Heo Jiwon – Korea
Differentiation by Kwon Yeha – Korea
Electric Girl by Mun Sieun, Shin Yein – Korea
Your Liberation by Park Hyejin – Korea

For more information: https://siwff.or.kr/eng/

About the festival:
The Seoul International Women’s Film Festival (SIWFF) is a unique and influential event presenting new values and the alternatives from a feminist perspective among Korean international film festivals. The festival contributes to the development of women’s positive values and plays an essential role establishing a network between Asian and the other countries. SIWFF provides the ways to promote and exhibit Korean women’s films abroad by discovering and supporting women in film industry. It also helps Korean film industry develop and have diversity. Forming future-oriented, alternative culture, SIWFF contributes to the development of the balanced Korea culture to improve Korean national image.