100 short films selected for BIAF2020
The official selection for the next Bucheon International Animation Festival, with a total of 100 short films (44 international short films, 29 graduate films, 12 TV and commissioned films and 15 Korean films) chosen from 2.501 proposals representing 99 countries. BIAF2020 will be held from 23 to 27 October.
Notable titles this year include Cannes Official Selection Blue Fear and select Cinéfondation of Cannes Tamou, Pile e When do we leaveas well as the choice of the critical week Maalbeek and the competitor of the Venice Film Festival Camp dreams. BIAF2020 will also screen the directorial debut of Toy Story 4 screenwriter Will McCormak, If something happens, I love you.
BIAF2020 will offer over KRW 52 million (approximately $ 44.000 USD) allocated in six categories. Film selections will be announced during the September 9 press conference.
Blue Fear | Marie Jacotey, Lola Halifa-Legrand (France) A couple on the roads of Provence. Nils is leading Flora to her parents for the first time when they come in an ambush. While she is taken prisoner, he escapes. During a night in the pine forest, he has to face his doubts.
If something happens, I love you | Will McCormack, Michael Govier (United States) Grieving parents struggle over the loss of their daughter after a school shooting. An elegy on pain. Produced by Gary Gilbert (La La Land) with vocal casting of the Oscar winner Laura Dern (History of marriage).
Maalbeek | Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis (France) Sabine is looking for a missing image: a day that has left its mark forever and that everyone remembers except her. But maybe this absence is what allows her to move on with her life?
Camp dreams | Magda Guidi, Mara Cerri (France / Italy) A boy searches for his cat along a river. He won't find it. He is about to die and has moved away from everything to find intimacy.
Other short films of the international competition listed below. You can see all selections for the Short, Graduate, TV and Commissioned and Korean Short programs here.
International competition - Short film
A cat called jam | Lorraine Lordan (Ireland)
Altötting | Andreas Hykade (Germany, Portugal, Canada)
Anipulation | Hiroshi Seo (Japan)
Apocalypse | Ennio Torresan Jr. (Brazil, United States)
Back | Natko Stipaničev (Croatia)
boriya | Sungah Min (France, South Korea)
Candy Can | Anton Octavian (Romania)
Carousel | Jasmine Elsen (Belgium, Czech Republic)
Cosmonauta | Kaspar Jancis (Estonia)
Dog's Field | Michalina Musialik (Poland)
Dry sea | Bart Bossaert, Yves Bex (Belgium)
Friend of a friend | Zachary Zezima (United States, France)
Genius Loci | Adrien Mérigeau (France)
Georges The Magician | Katalin Egely (Hungary, Argentina, United Kingdom)
Green grass | Michael Greco (Canada)
Golden Heart | Simon Filliot (France)
Home | Anita Bruvere (UK, Latvia)
Homeless home | Alberto Vázquez (France, Spain)
How my grandmother became a chair | Nicolas Fattouh (Germany, Lebanon, Qatar)
How to disappear | Leonhard Müllner, Robin Klengel, Michael Stumpf (Austria)
Just a boy | Shoko Hara (Germany, Japan)
Mad in XPain | Coke Riobóo (Spain)
Me | Begoña Arostegui (Spain)
Mosaic | Imge Özbilge, Sine Özbilge (Belgium, France)
My Galactic Twin Galaction | Sasha Svirsky (Russia)
Normal | Julie Caty (France)
Pianoman | Kodama Tetsuro (Japan)
Polka dot boy | Sarina Nihei (Japan, France, Denmark)
Precious | Paul Mas (France)
Release of the spell | Markéta Magidová (Czech Republic)
Sage at Nine | Nari Jang (South Korea)
Remember Remember | Bastien Dubois (France)
Thanadoula | Robin McKenna (Canada)
The Adventures of Gloria Scott - Murder in the Cathedral | Matija Pisačić, Tvrtko Rašpolić (Croatia, Serbia)
The fabric of you | Josephine Lohoar Self (UK, Scotland)
The Zillas have a picnic | Christian Franz Schmidt (Germany)
Tiger and Ox | Seunghee Kim (South Korea)
wade | Upamanyu Bhattacharya, Kalp Sanghvi (India)
Because snails don't have legs | Aline Höchli (Switzerland)
exasperate | Yibing Jiang (United States, China, Sweden)
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