Competitive sectionBusan Award for Best Director, LEE Yun Chan
Family/ChildComing of Age
Late one night, Yu Jie heads home from his part-time job on a motorcycle when he ends up in a car accident. A college student and web designer, he has a father who has been unemployed for three year′s a mother who barely speaks to her husband and devotes herself entirely to their children, and a younger sister just entering adolescence. The elderly man responsible for the accident transfers ownership of his house to Yu Jie and pays his medical and living expenses each month to make amends, but he is still plagued with guilt. Meanwhile, Yu Jie’s family, once on the verge of financial and emotional collapse, gradually becomes a family again, eating dinner together. Around the same time, Yu Jie also grows close to his physical therapist Yi-han. Yet this ‘ordinary’ happiness is only momentary. Lee Yun Chan, whose debut feature The Shoe Fairy was selected for BIFF New Currents in 2005, returns with a weighty drama film. Portraying the ironies of life through a colder look at reality, she weaves a dense narrative by layering the stories of people who must live on despite everything. Maintaining a careful balance between contemplation and sympathy, Lee completes another memorable family drama from Taiwan.
Programme note by PARK Sun Young
Stills4
Screenings4
Sun, 10/11
16:2018:37
Busan Cinema Center Haneulyeon Theatre
365Guest Q&AKE, Korean subtitles + English subtitles or English dialogue
Mon, 10/12
19:1021:27
Busan Cinema Center Cinematheque
481Guest Q&AKE, Korean subtitles + English subtitles or English dialogue
Tue, 10/13
18:1020:02
LOTTE CINEMA Centum City 10
632KE, Korean subtitles + English subtitles or English dialogue
Wed, 10/14
10:2012:12
LOTTE CINEMA Centum City 10
716KE, Korean subtitles + English subtitles or English dialogue
Lee Yun Chan is a Taiwanese director and screenwriter who has worked in the film and broadcasting industry for 30 years. Her first self-written and directed short film, The Magical Washing Machine (2004), screened in the Wide Angle section of the Busan International Film Festival and won the Golden Horse Award for Best Short Film. She has directed three feature films to date, making her feature debut with The Shoe Fairy (2005), which was invited to the Busan International Film Festival, the Tokyo International Film Festival, and other festivals. Her other directorial work includes the Disney+ series Women in Taipei (2022).
From Busan International Film Festival 2026, No. 31
