20 Films you shouldn’t miss at the 25th Seoul International Women’s Film Festival (Part 2)

By Asian Film Festival on August 23, 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

We continue with our list of feature films you shouldn’t miss at the Seoul International Women’s Film Festival which will take place from August 24 – 30, 2023 in Seoul, Korea.

To see the first part of this article, please go HERE

**My Broken Mariko** by Tanada Yuki – Japan | 2022 – 86 minutes | Korean Premiere

Tomoyo Shiino is an office lady. One day, she watches the news on TV and learns that her friend Mariko Ikagawa killed herself. They graduated from the same high school and Tomoyo knows that Mariko was abused by her father for a long time. To save her soul, Tomoyo steals her remains from Mariko’s family and goes on a trip. (SIWFF 2023)

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**Next Sohee** by July Jung – Korea | 2022 – 138 minutes

Sohee is an energetic and dance-loving eighteen-year-old high school student. She is about to graduate and go on a field placement, which begins to change her gradually. Detective Yujin, who has returned to work after a long absence, discovers a new fact during an investigation and follows its traces. (SIWFF 2023)

Screening Dates:
August 27, 2023 | Sunday | MEGABOX SangamWorldcup 4 | 19:00 pm

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**Powerpuff Gals** by Leonora Kievsky – Argentina | 2023 – 80 minutes | World Premiere

Ana, Lore and Mile introduce us to the lives of young people, their concerns, yearnings, and fights. The fierce irruption of the new gender perspectives and the protagonist of women. Their time in high school towards adulthood reflects young people’s needs to express themselves and transform the world we live in. (SIWFF 2023)

**Sandstorm** by Park Jaemin – Korea | 2023 – 79 minutes

With the birth of the first female master of “Ssireum,” traditional Korean wrestling, in 2009, women wrestlers expect official competitions and business teams to emerge. Ten years later, five wrestlers who survived overcoming challenges in unpopular sports struggle to become a Ssireum champion. (SIWFF 2023)

**Saving a Dragonfly** by Hong Daye – Korea |2022 – 80 minutes

In her senior year of high school, the director films herself and friends preparing for the college entrance exam. Despite becoming a college student, she still suffers from the anxiety she felt during her high school years. One day, she gets a call from her friend that she is not doing well in college. She decides to write to her friend. (SIWFF 2023)

**Sura: A Love Song** by Hwang Yun – Korea | 2022 – 108 minutes

A filmmaker, a citizen scientist and his son set out on a journey to protect Sura, the last tidal flat in danger of being destroyed due to the US military base expansion and new airport construction. Trying to find the evidence of life of protected species in Sura, they hope to hear a little bird singing and see the tidal flat full of life again. (SIWFF 2023)

Screening Dates:
August 27, 2023 | Sunday | MEGABOX SangamWorldcup 3 | 13:00 pm

**The Age of Beasts** by Jeong Jae-eun – Korea | 2021 – 49 minutes

A woman, who murdered a man who raped her 21 years ago, cried: “I didn’t kill a human being. I killed a beast.” Despite the expansion of democracy in the late 1980s, South Korean women were not yet respected as equal subjects. Tired of oppressive customs and violence, they started fighting to enact a special law. (SIWFF 2023)

Screening Dates:
August 26, 2023 | Saturday | MEGABOX SangamWorldcup 1 | 19:00 pm

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**The World of Us** by Yoon Ge-eun – Korea | 2016 – 95 minutes

On the first day of summer vacation, Sun, an outcast at school meets Jia who is new in town. They become best friends ever, sharing their secrets and spending the most beautiful summer together. But when the new school year begins, Sun notices a strange vibe around Jia. Desperate and upset without being able to restore her friendship with Jia, Sun reveals Jia’s deepest secret. (SIWFF 2023)

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**Time of Seeds** by Seol Suan – Korea | 2022 – 101 minutes

A gaze into the lives of the farmers who have been saving the seeds passed down for ages. Their daily work is in the end the arc of what we’re losing now. There are people who look for the seeds preserved by their special labors. The cycle, in the end, doesn’t end that easily. (SIWFF 2023)

**Where Would You Like to Go?** by Kim Heejung – Korea | 2023 – 103 minutes

Do-kyeong jumped in to save his student Ji-yong from drowning. After the two pass away, Myoung-ji, Do-kyeong’s wife, and Ji-eun, Ji-yong’s sister, are left alone in the world, having to cope with the loss of their loved ones. Myoung-ji travels to Warsaw, Poland, to avoid her harsh reality. She meets an old friend and hides her husband’s death as if trying to reject the tragedy. (SIWFF 2023)

Screening Dates:
August 27, 2023 | Sunday | MEGABOX SangamWorldcup 3 | 16:00 pm

To see the first part of this article, please go HERE
We also recommended 20 short films from this festival you can read about them HERE

For more information, please visit: https://www.siwff.or.kr/eng/