[Best Creative] iQIYI

Northward

English subtitles are provided

YAO Xiaofeng | China | 2025 | 87min | 12+ | DCP

• 08-23(Sat) 16:00
• Busan Cinema Center - Cinema 1

• 08-25(Mon) 14:00
• Busan Cinema Center - Cinema 1

Ticketing

*Screening Episodes: Ep18 & Ep19

A sweeping portrait of six boys and girls growing up along the Grand Canal, Northward traces their lives—and those of their families—across two decades beginning in the year 2000. As China transforms around them, they navigate love, loss, ambition, and resilience, carried forward like the Grand Canal itself: ever moving, ever changing.

Adapted from the acclaimed 2019 novel, the series captures the quiet resilience of a community shaped by history and change. From the building of the Beijing-Shanghai expressway to the present day, Northward offers an intimate, layered reflection on modern Chinese life where personal stories flow together like the waters that have connected generations.

[Best Creative] Studio Dragon, tvN, TVING

Our Unwritten Seoul

English subtitles are provided

PARK Shin-woo, NAM Gunn | Korea | 2025 | 158min | 15+ | DCP

• 08-23(Sat) 12:30
• Busan Cinema Center - Cinema 1

• 08-23(Sat) 20:00
• Busan Cinema Center - Outdoor Theater
• (Free Screening)

Ticketing

*Screening Episodes: Ep1 & Ep2

A romantic coming-of-age drama about identical twin sisters who share the same face but little else, where a single lie leads them to switch lives in search of love, identity, and future of their own.

Haunted by the emotional wounds they've kept buried for years, the sisters find themselves at a crossroads. In a moment of crisis, they choose to live each other’s lives, only to discover the hidden truths about family, connection, and the courage it takes to love, not just others, but themselves.

[Best OTT Original] YOUKU

The First Frost

English subtitles are provided

CHU Yu-Ning | China | 2025 | 91min | 15+ | DCP

• 08-22(Fri) 19:00
• Busan Cinema Center - Cinema 1

• 08-23(Sat) 19:30
• Busan Cinema Center - Cinema 1
• *Guest Visit

Ticketing

*Screening Episodes: Ep2 & Ep10

Wen Yifan, a broadcast journalist, unexpectedly crosses paths with her high school crush, Sang Yan, at a bar. Though they pretend to be strangers at first, a string of mishaps leads them to become unlikely roommates. As they settle into life under the same roof, long-buried emotions resurface, and love quietly takes root once more.

Adapted from the hit web novel of the same name, The First Frost tells the story of two people who never confessed their feelings in high school and went their separate ways. Years later, their reunion as adults offers a second chance, especially for Sang Yan, who begins to understand the emotional wounds Wen Yifan has carried in silence. Through sharing the same space and slowly opening their hearts, they embark on a tender journey of healing, reconnection, and rediscovered love.

[Best Asian Contents] Salem Entertainment

4°C

English subtitles are provided

Kuanysh STAKHANOV | Kazakhstan | 2025 | 69min | 19+ | DCP

• 08-24(Sun) 14:00
• Busan Cinema Center - Cinema 1
• *Guest Visit

• 08-25(Mon) 16:30
• Busan Cinema Center - Cinema 1

Ticketing

*Screening Episodes: Ep1 & Ep2

Timur, a surgeon, is pulled into the black-market organ trade in a desperate attempt to save his daughter, who urgently needs a kidney transplant. As he spirals deeper into a world of illicit surgeries, donor deaths, and relentless police pursuit, Timur—now entrenched in an international crime ring—loses everything and comes face to face with a mysterious global broker.

Torn between his oath as a doctor and his love as a father, Timur descends into moral chaos. He betrays his ethics and manipulates those around him to keep his daughter alive—but the consequences are irreparable.

The title 4°C refers to the optimal temperature for preserving transplant organs such as kidneys, livers, and hearts, slowing down oxygen consumption and extending viability.

[Best Asian Contents] Telepack

Timeless Love Letters for My Classmates
English subtitles are provided

AYABE Shinya | Japan | 2024 | 86min | 15+ | DCP

• 08-22(Fri) 13:00
• Busan Cinema Center - Cinema 1

• 08-24(Sun) 11:00
• Busan Cinema Center - Cinema 1
• *Guest Visit

Ticketing

*Screening Episodes: Ep1 & Ep2

Tsuneo Edamatsu, a failed novelist, stumbles upon a story buried in a time capsule and passes it off as his own, catapulting himself to fame with winning Japan’s most prestigious literary award. Consumed by guilt, he confesses to his editor, Miharu Katayama, who, fearing the collapse of her own career, chooses to stay silent. The series unpacks the consequences of their choices and the paths they can no longer undo.

Adapted from the acclaimed 2021 essay, this drama unfolds across two timelines: through the tender and nostalgic lens of a first-year middle schooler in the mid-1990s, along with a present-day reckoning where the secret behind a long-buried act of plagiarism threatens to resurface. Spanning 25 years, it weaves together themes of memory, flawed ambition, trust and the quiet courage to confront the truth.

[Media & Brand Day] TVING Original Series Screening

The Great Escape : The Story  English subtitles are not provided.

LEE Woohyoung, YANG Seulgi | Korea | 2025 | 121min | 15+ | DCP

• 08-24(Sun) 19:30
• Busan Cinema Center - Cinema 1

• 08-25(Mon) 11:00
• Busan Cinema Center - Cinema 1

Ticketing

* Screening Episodes: Special Edition

A legendary escape-variety extravaganza returns—bigger, bolder, and more unpredictable than ever! This suspense-fueled new adventure plunges you across time and space, with mind-bending twists at every turn.

[Media & Brand Day] TVING Original Series Screening

LIFE LINE

English subtitles are provided

KIM Sung-min | Korea | 2025 | 95min | ALL | DCP

• 08-24(Sun) 17:00
• Busan Cinema Center - Cinema 1

• 08-25(Mon) 20:00
• Busan Cinema Center - Cinema 1

Ticketing

*Screening Episodes: Ep3 & Ep6

Life Line pays tribute to South Korea’s firefighters—brave souls who run toward danger to protect and serve, despite the emotional wounds they carry. More than a tale of heroism, it’s a deeply cathartic documentary that offers a message of healing and honors the quiet resilience of those who held on through years of loss and despair.