"This year's poster began with the festival's slogan: Reimagining F. Just like a gaze seeping through blooming flowers or the shifting phases of the moon, we sought to draw moments where layered emotions and thoughts flow and overlap. Rather than depicting a specific scene or figure, we left space for each viewer's own imagination to settle in. Through the SIWFF, we hope each person encounters their own version of 'F' and that more fellowships and new imaginations will blossom from that encounter. The poster is composed of two images. The first image draws inspiration from Francesco del Cossa's Saint Lucy. It captures a gaze slipping through the spaces between blooming flowers-a gaze where inside and outside seem to blend, as if looking through a telescope or a pair of glasses into another world. This gaze marks the beginning of imagining 'F'-an invitation to see beyond, to begin. The second image visualizes the changing phases of the moon. Its cyclical flow-never fixed, always shifting-mirrors the rising and fading of thoughts and emotions. It gives visual form to the festival's message: imagination that crosses boundaries." (JOUNG Yumi)
Joung Yumi majored in fine art and later studied animation at the Korean Academy of Film Arts, where she made her debut with My Small Doll House (2006). Her 2009 film Dust Kid was invited to the Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival. Math Test (2010), Love Games (2012), House of Existence (2022), and Circle (2024) were all selected for the Short Film Competition at the Berlin International Film Festival. Love Games became the first Korean animation to win the Grand Prix at the Animafest Zagreb. Her latest work, Glasses (2025), was invited to the Cannes Critics' Week short film competition, marking a new milestone for Korean animation.