These are twenty films you shouldn’t miss at the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFAN) which will take place in cinemas and online from June 29 until July 9, 2023 in Bucheon, Korea.

Kawamura is a promising young man with decent job and a fiancee who born with a silver spoon. On the way home from a party before the wedding day, he falls to the deep bottom of a manhole. Trapped an horrified, he gets desperate to escape and uses his only reliable tool, a smartphone, to find a way to get out. The clock is ticking, and the sun rises mercilessly. Can the groom escape from the hole intact and get married happily ever after? (BIFAN 2023)

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Amiko isn’t like other children. Her endless energy and curious eccentricities make her an outcast at school and get her in trouble at home. When a painful family loss disrupts her seemingly idyllic seaside life, her sense of isolation intensifies, yet it doesn’t stop Amiko from inviting people into her world. (BIFAN 2023)

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On the night of their high school graduation, three juvenile delinquents find themselves getting drunk at their regular hangout, throwing beer bottles and enjoying the abuse hurled at them by nearby residents. But for these young men about to enter a new chapter of life, this little bit of chaos is nowhere near enough to farewell their dying youth. Before dawn, they decide to share their deepest, darkest secret with one another. After all, only true “bros” are qualified to know their most unspeakable deed. (BIFAN 2023)

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A young nursing school student visits her grandparents in the countryside. They enjoy a reunion while she feels increasingly uncomfortable. There is something in the grandparents’ house. One day, she finds out the truth that turns her “happy” daily life into horror. (BIFAN 2023)

At the boarding school for privileged kids, a group of unlikely friends is trying to cheat on the final exam. But the only thing they encounter is unexpected truth and ensuing inevitable violence that follows. (BIFAN 2023)

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A young woman wakes up in a shabby hotel room with no idea who she is and how did she get there. The only clue she got is the voice from the next room calling her ‘Anne’. She found her face was constantly changing and a nurse give her a injection and inform her that this is just a mental symptoms purposed for psychiatric treatment. When night falls, stag-headed demon, Vertico, appear to kill the patients. Will she escape from vicious creature and realize who she really is? (BIFAN 2023)

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What is your hobby? Jeong-in, who recently divorced a violent husband, moves back to her hometown. While suffering from nosy villagers, she is soon drawn to Hye-jung, a newcomer to the town. Two young women soon get closer and Hye-jung’s freewheeling and confident character inspires Jeong-in to break free of her wretched life. One day, Hye-jung suggests Jeong-in share a ‘hobby’ with her, and now their bloody hobby is about to begin. (BIFAN 2023)

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Bonnie begins experiencing strange incidents following her uncle’s mysterious appearance at her food truck late one night. Returning to her childhood hometown, she is stranded during a sudden Covid-19 Lockdown and is forced to take refuge in her family’s old coffeeshop, discovering that it is haunted by her relatives’ ghosts returning for the Hungry Ghost Festival. (BIFAN 2023)

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Actor Oh Tae-kyung, who once gained fame as the child actor playing “Oh Dae-su” in the movie OLDBOY, relishes his second golden era as a YouTuber. Just as he was dreaming of reaching the height of fame as a “viral YouTuber,” his revelation of the picket man’s story is suspected of being staged, and the situation begins to spiral out of control in unexpected ways. (BIFAN 2023)

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Stranded in the Philippines during World War II, a young girl’ Tala lives in a war-worn colonial house in the isolated forest with her sickly mother and younger brother. Her mother’s condition rapidly deteriorates. Desperate, Tala seeks out a mysterious fairy who has promised to protect her. Happy to oblige, the fairy gifts Tala a magical insect to cure her dying mother. Tala decides to release the magical insect which burrows deep into her mother’s flesh and begins living inside her. While her mother’s sickness disappears, in its place grows an insatiable craving for human flesh. As carnage ensues, Tala is forced to decide… Let her mother starve to death, or protect her mother and feed her bloodlust. (BIFAN 2023)

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