The Busan International Film Festival has added pop-fueled spectacle to its 30th edition, announcing a one-night sing-along screening of KPop Demon Hunters alongside an inaugural main competition that features Shih-Ching Tsou’s Left-Handed Girl and Sho Miyake’s Locarno winner Two Seasons, Two Strangers. Organizers said the animated hit will play with lyrics on screen at the Dongseo University Sohyang Theatre ShinhanCard Hall, inviting fans to belt out soundtrack staples such as Golden and Soda Pop during the September event. The festival runs Sept. 17–26 in the southern port city, marking its anniversary year.
The sing-along arrives after the movie’s surge from streaming breakout to theatrical phenomenon, including a late-August stint atop the U.S. box office that signaled unusually strong crossover for a Netflix-released title and added momentum to its global fan culture. Busan’s press notice frames the screening as the film’s first Korean theatrical presentation and promises “powerful sound on the big screen,” an effort that matches the festival’s larger push to stage audience-driven special events during its milestone edition.
Beyond the pop showcase, Busan formalized a revamped competition slate of 14 Asian titles spanning Taiwan, Japan, Korea, China, Iran, Tajikistan and Sri Lanka. Left-Handed Girl, produced and co-written by Anora filmmaker Sean Baker with Tsou making her solo feature debut, competes alongside Miyake’s Two Seasons, Two Strangers, which earned Locarno’s Golden Leopard this month. The lineup also includes works from Shu Qi, Zhang Lü, Bi Gan, Vimukthi Jayasundara and others, while Gala Presentations bring four high-profile premieres, among them Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein and Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident.
