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Busan Festival Launches Youth Film Section, Teen Spirit, Teen Movie
The Busan film festival is launching a special section on youth films as it sees the category expanding throughout Asia.
In addition to “Tiger Stripes,” which won the Grand Prix Prize in Critics Week at Cannes in 2023, was selected as Malaysia’s Oscar contender only to be cut by local censors, the selection includes: “ City of Wind,” winner of the Orizzonti Award for best actor at Venice last year; Okuyama Hiroshi’s “My Sunshine,” from this year’s Cannes Un Certain Regard section; Sora Neo’s “Happyend,” which will play at Venice next month’; Shuchi Talati’s “Girls Will Be Girls,” winner of the audience awards at Sundance in January; and “Fishbone,” which won a screenwriting prize at June’s Shanghai International Film Festival. This year’s ‘Special Program in Focus’ was inspired by the fact that many exceptional teen coming-of-age films have been produced in Asia recently, festival organizers explained. “Following the acclaim received by Korean films such as ‘House of Hummingbird’ (2018), ‘The World of Us’ (2016), and ‘Moving On’ (2019), we’re seeing a rapid growth spurt of teenage narratives from various Asian countries, such as ‘Tiger Stripes’ from Malaysia, ‘City of Wind’ from Mongolia, and ‘Girls Will Be Girls’ (2024) from India.
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