World Premiere, Wide Angle: Documentary Competition, 2026
ACROSS: Anatomy of the Forgotten War
어크로스: 전쟁은 어떻게 잊혀지는가
Director KIM Ji
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Scene 1: Cannelle, a human rights lawyer based in Berlin, is pursuing a case on war crimes in Yemen at the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR). Scene 2: In Sardinia, Italy, STOP RWM activists continue their campaign against the illegal expansion of the German arms manufacturer RWM on the island and its arms exports. Scene 3: Jamal, a former civil servant in Yemen, arrives with his family in Jeju after fleeing the Houthi rebels. Linking Europe, the Middle East, and Korea, these three scenes, which evoke the opening of a large-scale political thriller, arouse both tension and curiosity. At their intersection lies the (forgotten) war in Yemen. ACROSS: Anatomy of the Forgotten War follows the ‘merchants of death’ who start wars to sell weapons. From Yemen to Palestine and Ukraine, Kim Ji, a filmmaker based in Germany, Yemen, Palestine, Ukraine, and Germany, looks at the world’s tragedies from different angles with a cool-headed and clear-eyed camera. In the final scene, Donald Trump openly exposes the ugly reality of the war business on social media, rendering the documentary’s efforts almost futile. Yet Kim Ji’s capable camera goes wherever it is needed. This documentary takes contemporary Korean documentary cinema to a whole new level.
After directing the short films Hair, Queer, and Rain (2020) and 6, 20 and 7 (2020), she co-directed her first feature-length documentary, To Become 2 (2013), which screened at numerous film festivals, including the Seoul International Women’s Film Festival and Indie DocuFest. She moved to Germany in 2014 and has continued to work on short fiction films and documentaries.
From Busan International Film Festival 2026, No. 31
