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After the screening of Chantal Akerman: Her First Look Behind the Camera (1967), Maria Schneider, 1983 (2022) and Kim Soyoung’s short film Ana Cosmic Archivist (2024), director, film critic and scholar Kim Soyoung will talk about the reasons and process of consistently recording, collecting, and restoring women’s stories and the trajectories of female creators who have influenced the next generation of creative artists.

 

 

Kim Young Ok, director of Life Culture Research Center Okee Salon, and Kim Hyun Mee, professor of cultural anthropology at Yonsei University, will watch and discuss with the audience Favoriten, which is screened as part of the special section of ‘On the Border, Persistently’ to examine the expanding context of the diaspora and life on the border from various angles, including place, culture, and identity.

 

 

 

 

Members of three communities of female creators working in various media (film, video, design, photography, and etc.), the Feminist Designers Social Club (FDSC), the Feminist Filmmakers Forever (FFF), and the Women Directors’ Network (WDN), gather to share the experience of founding each community, how it operates, and its goals to discuss on the state of female creators’ collaboration.

 

 

 

This roundtable talk with animation directors whose films are screened in the special section of ‘Animated, Body-World-Being’ will provide an opportunity to look into the microcosm of female directors who have been exploring and reflecting on the body, time and space, and existence through creative imagery and storytelling. The development of women-related narratives in animation and the stories of women who persistently break through the difficulties or ‘glass ceiling’ surrounding female creators and continue to ‘speak out’ to the world will be discussed as well.

 

 

 

Director Kim Doyoung and film journalist Kim Hyunmin discuss the impact and contemporary significance of Noah Baumbach’s film Frances Ha (2012), which is being reexamined through RE:Discover by Curation.

 

 

 

Critic Jeong HeeJin talks about the Microhabitat (2017) by director Jeon Go-woon and contemporary significance of the film, which is being reexamined through RE:Discover by Curation.

 

 

 

Polemics is a section that presents critical and urgent feminist agendas of the year with related film screenings and an intensive discussion to match. This year, the theme of the section is ‘Politics, Struggle of Everyday Life,’ focusing on women and politics and the dynamics in between. This year’s theme of Polemics Talk is ‘Women in Politics, Generational Changes.’ Panels will talk about women’s political movements and the political concerns of the current generation.