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Screening Deliciousness: The 10th Anniversary of the 2026 Busan Food Film Festa Opens for Three Flavorful Days in Busan!

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Busan Metropolitan City (Mayor Park Heong-joon) announced that the 2026 Busan Food Film Festa (2026 Busan Food Film Festa), a food film festival where visitors can enjoy a wide range of food-related content through the shared themes of film and cuisine, will take place for three days from June 26 to June 28 at Busan Cinema Center and the Suyeong River waterfront area.

The festival is sponsored by Busan Metropolitan City and jointly organized and hosted by the Busan Food Film Festa Organizing Committee and Busan Cinema Center Foundation.

The festival’s opening event, “Opening Night,” will mark the beginning of the celebration with a rich lineup of attractions, including introductions to the festival’s key programs, a themed performance, and the screening of the opening film.

Admission to the opening ceremony will be free for the first 1,000 attendees on a first-come, first-served basis. The event will begin at 7:00 p.m., hosted by Park Sang-hyeon, programmer of the Busan Food Film Festa (BFFF), and culinary researcher Hong Shin-ae.

For this year’s themed performance at Opening Night, Busan-based youth fusion traditional music band Nallariwa Jaengi will present their own interpretation of the festival’s main theme, “Strange Yet Familiar,” by blending practical contemporary music with traditional instruments such as the taepyeongso and ajaeng.

The opening film of this year’s Busan Food Film Festa (BFFF), which will screen a total of 17 films, is The Last Cannoli, depicting the final moments before the closure of Fantasia, a long-established pastry shop in Sicily.

Set against the backdrop of Sicily and centered on the unfamiliar yet intriguing subject of cannoli, the film conveys affection for family and neighbors, along with feelings of nostalgia and hope in the face of changing times. It is regarded as a work that most effectively embodies this year’s festival theme, “Strange Yet Familiar.”

In addition to a variety of official programs such as Cook! Talk!, Food Terrace, JuJu Club, and Food Salon, the festival will also feature a wide range of special events including Food Therapy, Food Zone, a flea market, Potluck Table, Theme Zone, and Cheers Garden.

Beginning with Cook! Talk!, where audiences can hear stories about the foods featured in films before the screenings, visitors can also enjoy Food Terrace, a gourmet program presented in collaboration with establishments selected by the 2026 Michelin Guide, as well as Food Zone, where they can explore pop-up restaurants operated by some of Busan’s leading young owner-chefs.

The newly introduced Cheers Garden program will allow families to gather on a green lawn and enjoy refreshing craft beer, traditional Korean alcoholic beverages, cocktails, and wine. Meanwhile, at Food Therapy, one of the festival’s most popular family-friendly events, children will have the opportunity to see, touch, and select ingredients themselves while creating their own vegetable pizzas.

Detailed information about the programs is available through the festival’s official Instagram account (@busanfoodfilmfesta), its website (https://bfff.kr), or by contacting the Busan Food Film Festa Secretariat at 051-710-6948 or contact@bfff.kr.

Cho Yu-jang, Director General of the Culture Bureau of Busan Metropolitan City, stated, “We hope that the 2026 Busan Food Film Festa, which marks its 10th anniversary this year, will provide a valuable opportunity for visitors to experience and appreciate the cultures and ways of life of others through the universal language of food.”