This film is astonishingly fresh - like watching Elephant for the first time. The meaning of the title lands only when this cute teen movie arrives at an unexpected place. If Jacqueline Lentzou’s debut film Moon, 66 Questions carried the subtitle ‘a film about flow, movement, and love (and lack of them),’ her new work comes with one that says, ‘a film about breath, touch, and loneliness (and lack of them).’ Maintaining her characteristic directing style, with warped images, offscreen sounds, and idiosyncratic composition and editing, the film makes us wonder what is going on inside her head when she suddenly gazes at the sky. Then, at a climax no one could have imagined, everything erupts. In a daring development lasting over 20 minutes, Lentzou announces herself an auteur. This is what a ‘camera of the heart, film of the heart’ looks like. This film announces the emergence of a director with a new sensibility, following in the footsteps of Athina Rachel Tsangari and Yorgos Lanthimos, two defining figures of contemporary Greek auteur cinema.
Programme note by LEE Yong Cheol
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Screenings3
Sat, 10/10
09:3011:22
Busan Cinema Center Cinema 2
296Guest Q&AKE, Korean subtitles + English subtitles or English dialogue
Sun, 10/11
11:4013:32
CGV Centum City 6
412Guest Q&AKE, Korean subtitles + English subtitles or English dialogue
Wed, 10/14
13:4015:07
CGV Centum City IMAX
659KE, Korean subtitles + English subtitles or English dialogue
Born in Athens, Greece in 1989, Jacqueline Lentzou is a director known for a cinematic language that finds poetic moments within seemingly mundane subject matter. Her short film Fox (2016) won the Cinema e Gioventù Jury′s Best International Short Film Award at Locarno, and her short Hector Malot: The Last Day of the Year (2018) won the Critics′ Week Discovery Award at Cannes. Her debut feature Moon, 66 Questions (2021) was selected for Berlinale′s Encounters section and received the Golden Puffin Award at the Reykjavik International Film Festival and the New Wave Award at the Seville European Film Festival. Retrospectives of her work have been held in Montreal, Ghent, and at the ICA in London. Her second feature, the Greece-Germany-France co-production A Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra (2026), had its world premiere in the Orizzonti section of the 83rd Venice Film Festival in September 2026.
From Busan International Film Festival 2026, No. 31
