The Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival revealed this year’s NAFF Project Market line-up: a total of twenty-nine feature film projects from 18 countries have been selected.

This year NAFF received 279 submissions from forty countries worldwide, showing an increase in both the number of countries and projects compared to last year. Particularly, the number of international projects reached an all-time high with 222 submissions (58 more than last year, from 4 more countries).

Projects were selected by the preliminary Jury consisting of Paul D. KIM, CEO of Hive Filmworks; Danny Daehee PARK, CEO of IRON PACK; CHOI Jeonghwa, president of the Producers Guild of Korea; and HAN Sunhee, CEO of Plane Pictures along with BIFAN’s Jongsuk Thomas NAM, MO Eunyoung and Samantha MOON.

For this edition, NAFF will expand its support for international projects through active cooperation with overseas film festivals and institutions such as the Sitges Film Festival (Spain), Blood Window (Argentina), and Japan’s Visual Industry Promotion Organization (VIPO), Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA) and the Taipei Film Commission.

It Project Selections
Angel Number by Kim Taekyung – Korea
Biraa by Bhaskar Hazarika – India
Booked by Vutichai Wongnophadol, Lertsiri Boonmee – Thailand
Forte by Son Heuisong – Korea
The Grotesque Train by Tak Sewoong – Korea
Idiot Girls and School Ghost by Kim Minha – Korea
Lake of Stars by Jake Wachtel – Cambodia
Maiden Home by Sinn Kirin – Korea, Indonesia
Operation Undead by Kongkiat Ng – Singapore
Out of Nowhere by Li Yuchiao – Taiwan
Parasomnia by Rafki Hidayat – Indonesia
The Passport by Ananth Subramaniam – Malaysia
Please Bear with Me by Gabriela Serrano – Philippines
The Poison Cat by Guan Tian – Hong Kong
Sesame Has Its Soul by Oscar Duong – Vietnam, Korea
The Shadows by Lingo Hsieh – Taiwan, USA
Show Me the Liver by Kim Jeongho – Korea

NAFF Project Spotlight Japan Selection
A Woman in Flames by Nakagawa Natsuki – Japan
Dulia by Sakuma Keisuke – Japan
The Demon by Watanabe Hirobumi – Japan
The Night has a Thousand Eyes by Takahashi Hiroshi – Japan
The Shadows in Tokyo by Kumakiri Kazuyoshi – Japan

Nordic Genre Invasion Selection
Highway of Death by Pal Oie – Norway, Finland
Kraken by Pal Oie – Norway
Mourning Time by Saara Saarela – Norway
Planet by Fredrik S. Hana – Norway

Blood Window Selection
Plasma by Daniel Aspillaga – Chile

Sitges FanPitch Selection
Rain Catcher by Michele Fiascaris – Belgium

Cannes Fantastic 7 Selection
The Fin by Park Syeyoung – Korea

The 16th B.I.G. NAFF Project Market will take place from June 30 until July 3 2023, over the first weekend of the 27th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (June 29 – July 9, 2023).

About the NAFF:
The Network of Asian Fantastic Films (NAFF) is the world’s first genre-exclusive film industry program launched in 2008. Over the past 16 years, 430 projects have been selected for the NAFF Project Market, and 90 projects have been completed as feature films. Finished films continue to attract attention at various Korean and international film festivals such as Cannes, Sundance, or Sitges, and were released theatrically in many countries or distributed online on various OTT platforms.