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World Cinema, 2025

Adam’s Sake

아담을 위하여

Director Laura WANDEL

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Adam’s Sake is a medical drama set almost entirely within a hospital. This short film evokes the spirit of the Dardenne brothers, where profound sorrow and faint hope quietly coexist. At its center are two women—Rebecca, a young mother raising her child alone, and Lucy, a nurse who wants to help her. They meet at the hospital, one as the guardian of a patient, the other as the head nurse. Four-year old Adam is hospitalized with a broken arm caused by malnutrition. Though the court restricts Rebecca’s visitation rights, young Adam needs his mother—and Rebecca, in turn, desperately needs her son. Lucy is the only one who truly cares. Rather than blindly follow the court’s ruling or the hospital’s protocol, Lucy worries for Adam’s well-being as both a nurse and a mother. Yet, goodwill and compassion have little power in the face of law and the system. Anamaria Vartolomei—of Happening (2021) and Mickey 17 (2025)—conveys Rebecca’s desperation with the frightened eyes of a wounded bird.

Programme note by LEE Juhyun

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Screenings3

Thu, 09/18

13:0014:18

KOFIC Theater

070KE, Korean subtitles + English subtitles or English dialogue

Tue, 09/23

16:3017:48

LOTTE CINEMA Centum City 5

452KE, Korean subtitles + English subtitles or English dialogue

Wed, 09/24

16:0017:18

LOTTE CINEMA Centum City 5

528KE, Korean subtitles + English subtitles or English dialogue

Film details

Director: Laura WANDEL
Country/Region: Belgium, France
Year: 2025
Length: 78min
Section: World Cinema
Edition: Busan International Film Festival 2025, No. 30
Original language: French
Format: DCP, Color
Selection: Official selection
Elsewhere: Festival page Letterboxd IMDb Wikidata TMDB Douban

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Laura WANDEL

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Director: Laura WANDEL
Cast: Léa DRUCKER, Anamaria VARTOLOMEI, Jules DELSART
Cinematography: Frédéric NOIRHOMME
Production design: Paul ROUSCHOP
Editing: Nicolas RUMPL
Sound: Yolande DECARSIN, Mathieu COX
Production company: Dragons Films, Les Films du Fleuve, Les Films de Pierre, Lunanime
World sales: INDIE SALES COMPANY

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