A Film Festival Everyone Can Enjoy... The 10th Busan Gachibom Film Festival Held

Busan City will hold the “10th Busan Gachibom Film Festival” for four days from August 8 to 11 at the Cinema Tech in the Busan Cinema Center.

2023 Busan Gachibom Film Festival Poster.

This film festival, meaning “It is valuable to watch together,” was organized to improve awareness of people with and without disabilities and to provide a venue for social integration.

The Barrier-Free Video Forum and the Busan Cinema Center are co-hosting the event, with support from Busan City and others.

It is also one of the cultural and artistic programs of the “2023 Busan World Disabled Persons’ Conference,” held under the theme “Global Great Transformation, Its Challenges and Opportunities.”

The distinctive feature of the Gachibom Film Festival is that it provides audio descriptions that read the visuals and subtitle explanations of sounds, allowing people who have difficulty enjoying films through images and sound to enjoy them together.

It is accessible not only to people with visual and hearing impairments but also to the elderly and foreigners who are not fluent in Korean.

This year’s festival will screen a total of 13 Gachibom films, including ▲ Gachibom films you want to watch again ▲ Gachibom films commemorating the 2023 Busan World Disabled Persons’ Conference ▲ and Gachibom films produced through the “Gachibom Film Production Process Education.”

“Gachibom films you want to watch again” include “The Magic Flute,” “The Prosecutor and the Female Teacher,” and “Touch of Light,” which were screened at previous festivals.

“Gachibom films commemorating the 2023 Busan World Disabled Persons’ Conference” include “My Special Brother,” “Nocturne,” “We Can Do That!,” “CODA,” and “Shining.”

“Gachibom films produced through the Gachibom Film Production Process Education” include the opening films “El Mar” and “Suzume’s Locking Up the Door.”

In particular, the opening films “El Mar” and “Suzume’s Locking Up the Door” were produced as Gachibom films with the support of local Busan companies Yurim ENC and Medical Corporation Gijang Hospital.

The “Valuable Project” is a project that establishes the realization of barrier-free environments and enhances the value of culture that anyone can enjoy without barriers.

Additionally, on the 11th at 6 p.m., the closing ceremony “Busan Gachibom Concert - Sopung (Sound Scenery)” will be held at Cinema Tech.

This is a remake of the “Sopung - Sound Scenery” performance held in 2014 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the film festival.

Tickets for the films can be purchased on the Busan Cinema Center website, and on-site ticketing is also available.

For more details, please refer to the website or contact by phone.

A Busan City official said, “We expect the 10th Busan Gachibom Film Festival to be even more meaningful as it is held in conjunction with the 2023 Busan World Disabled Persons’ Conference,” adding, “As the Gachibom Film Festival means ‘It is valuable to watch together,’ our city will continue to strive to improve awareness of people with and without disabilities and to create a venue for social integration.”

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