The 25th Bucheon International Animation Festival (BIAF) announced the selection of 81 animated short films (38 international shorts, 13 graduation films, 11 TV/commissioned projects and 22 South Korean shorts for the national competition). Selected from a submission pool of 3,015 works from 101 countries, these films will screen during this year’s festival from October 20-24.
The selection includes highly anticipated new works by acclaimed directors: Garden of Remembrance by Naoko Yamada (A Silent Voice), which illustrates how day to day life changes after the loss of a lover, and Nezumikozō Jirokichi, the new short of Galaxy Express 999 director Rintaro. The Day I Became a Bird by Andrew Ruhemann, the Oscar-winning director of The Lost Thing, and Peculiar and Strange by Student Academy Award Gold Medal winner Hanna Kim (The Raccoon and the Light) also feature in the program.
Other notable selections are I’m Hip, the latest work by Disney icon John Musker (director of The Little Mermaid, Aladdin and Moana); Flutter, produced by Zootopia associated producer Brad Simonson and directed by Adam Levy; Little t, Masha Ellsworth’s directorial debut film, a part of Pixar’s co-op program; and The Brave Locomotive, created by Andrew Chesworth, Oscar- nominated filmmaker of One Small Step.
Along with these globally recognized contenders, three Korean films have been selected for the International Competition: the new film from Love Games director Joung Yumi, The Waves; Yeo Eun-a’s A Long Alone; and See You on the Other Side, from Jeong Haeji, director of the Annecy Festival Jury Distinction prize-winning student film Sura.
Learn more at biaf.or.kr.
BIAF2023 Official Selection
Short Film Competition
- 27, Flóra Anna Buda
- A Long Alone, Eun-a Yeo
- About a Cow, Pavla Baštanová
- AliEN0089, Valeria Hofmann
- Antipolis, Kaspar Jancis
- Baigal Nuur – Lake Baikal, Alisi Telengut
- Canard, Elie Chapuis
- Cold Soup, Marta Monteiro
- Compound Eyes of Tropical, Zhangxu Zhan
- Five Spikelets Law, Yana Ugrekhelidze
- Flutter, Adam Levy
- Garden of Remembrance, Naoko Yamada
- Greylands, Charlotte Waltert, Alvaro Schoeck
- Hadis, Nazrin Aghamaliyeva
- Harvey, Janice Nadeau
- I’m Hip, John Musker
- La Perra, Carla Melo Gampert
- Little t, Masha Ellsworth
- Margarethe 89, Lucas Malbrun
- Meddington Hills, Jeanette Jeanenne
- Nezumikozō Jirokichi, Rintaro
- Peculiar and Strange, Hanna Kim
- Peeping Mom / Le sexe de ma mère, Francis Canitrot
- See You on the Other Side, Haeji Jeong
- Somni, Sonja Rohleder
- Such Miracles Do Happen, Barbara Rupik
- Sweet Like Lemons, Jenny Jokela
- The Brave Locomotive, Andrew Chesworth
- The Day I Became a Bird, Andrew Ruhemann
- The Family Portrait, Lea Vidakovic
- The Miracle, Nienke Deutz
- The Night Doctrine; Almudena Toral, Mauricio Rodriguez Pons
- The Purple Season / La saison pourpre, Clémence Bouchereau
- The Suitcase / La Valise, Chloé Mazlo
- The Waiting, Voker Schlecht
- The Waves, Yumi Joung
- Via Dolorosa, Rachel Gutgarts
- World To Roam, Stephen Irwin
Graduation Film Competition
- Dede Is Dead, Philippe Kastner
- End of Summer, Tara Attarzadeh
- First class, After school; Gaon Lee, Seo-yeon Kim, Seo-young Park, Seo-jin Lee
- Frenzy Fries, Jeesuk Kim
- From the Corner of My Eye, Domonkos Erhardt
- Goodbye, Woojoo; Dahyun Jeon
- La notte; Martina Generali, Simone Pratola, Francesca Sofia Rosso
- Sewing Love, Yuan Xu
- The Invincible Swordsman, Anxingzi Zuo
- The Last Bar, Arne Hain
- The Mijares, Wanying Lolu
- The Tornado Outside, Maria Tomazou
- Twenty Two, Tong-min Li
TV & Commissioned Competition
- All the Best, Pablo Rafael Roldán
- Coup de Théâtre, Antonin Niclass
- Dododo Choonsik, Jinwoo Lee
- I Inside the Old I Dying; Joaquín Cociña, Cristobal León
- Meet Again, Ap-sol Kang
- Météores; Agnès Patron, Morgane Le Péchon
- Mr. Passenger, José Pedro Cavalheiro
- Nana’s Secret Garden, Namiko Ishidate
- Silica Gel – Budland [M/V], Jihee Nam
- TV Anime TRIGUN STAMPEDE Ending Animation, Honami Yano
- Would You; Aran Shin, Jieun Son
Korean Short Competition
- A Long Alone, Eun-a Yeo
- And Then, Gwen Gunyung Lee
- Battery Mommy, Seungbae Jeon
- Chamber of Shadows, Seyoung Ok
- Crisp Dream, Hayeon Song
- Diary Booth; Woomin Shim, Jireh Ryu
- Don’t Die, Yuseon Park
- Hair Universe, Jinuk Choi
- Hard to Say, Yong-hae Ahn
- Hello!, Dakyoung Lee
- In – the middle of quarantine, Sumin Cho
- My Father and Me, Chaerin Yoo
- Reflected; So-jung Park, Chae-won Jung, Si-on Kim
- Resilience, Yoonhyung Choi
- See You on the Other Side, Haeji Jeong
- Spotlight; Suhyun Nam, Gahee Kim, Dagyo Choi
- The Monster; Ruby Yang, Bomin Kim
- The Scenes Left Behind, Seungeon Yi
- The Sea on the Day When the Magic Returns, Jiwon Han
- The Waves, Yumi Joung
- Unique Time, Yujin Oh
- White Phone Call, Hakhyun Kim
