These are eight feature films you shouldn’t miss at the Bucheon International Animation Festival which will take place from October 20 – 24, 2023 in Bucheon, Korea.

Art College 1994 by Liu Jian – China | 2023 – 118 minutes | Korean Premiere
Art College 1994 is a portrait of youth set on the campus of the Chinese Southern Academy of Arts in the early 1990s. Against the backdrop of reforms opening China to the Western world, a group of college students live in full swing as they take their first steps into adulthood, where love and friendships are intertwined with artistic pursuits, ideals and ambitions. Caught between tradition and modernity, they now have to choose who they want to become. (BIAF 2023)

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Kensuke’s Kingdom by Neil BOYLE, Kirk HENDRY – UK | 2023 – 84 minutes | Asian Premiere
A young boy, shipwrecked on a remote island, discovers he is not alone when he encounters a mysterious Japanese man who has lived there since the end of World War II. As dangerous invaders appear on the horizon, it becomes clear they must join forces to save their fragile paradise. (BIAF 2023)

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Mars Express by Jérémie Périn – France | 2023 – 88 minutes | Korean Premiere
In 2200, private detective Aline Ruby and her android partner Carlos Rivera are hired by a wealthy businessman to track down a notorious hacker. On Mars, they descend deep into the underbelly of the planet’s capital city where they uncover a darker story of brain farms, corruption, and a missing girl who holds a secret about the robots that threatens to change the face of the universe. (BIAF 2023)

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Phoenix: Reminiscence of Flower by NISHIMI Shojiro – Japan | 2023 – 95 minutes | Asian Premiere
In the age of space exploration, Romi and her lover George flee a devastated Earth and settle on planet Eden17 which turns out to be unsuitable for human habitation. After losing George, Romi is determined to survive with her son Cain and enters a hibernation pod. (BIAF 2023)

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Robot Dreams by Pablo Berger – Spain, France | 2023 – 102 minutes | Korean Premiere
DOG lives in Manhattan and he’s tired of being alone. One day he decides to build himself a robot, a companion. Their friendship blossoms, until they become inseparable, to the rhythm of 80’s NYC. One summer night, DOG, with great sadness, is forced to abandon ROBOT at the beach. Will they ever meet again? (BIAF 2023)

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Sand Land by YOKOSHIMA Toshihisa – Japan | 2023 – 106 minutes | Korean Premiere
In a desert world where both demons and humans suffer from an extreme water shortage, Beelzebub, the prince of demons, and Rao, a small-town sheriff, form a tag-team and set off on an adventure in search of the Legendary Spring somewhere in the desert. (BIAF 2023)

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Sirocco and the Kingdom of the Winds by Benoît CHIEUX – France, Belgium | 2023 – 78 minutes | Asian Premiere

Two intrepid sisters, Juliette (4) and Carmen (8), discover a passage to the extraordinary world of their favorite book, the Kingdom of the Air Streams. Transformed into cats and separated from each other, the girls will have to be bold and daring to find their way back to each other and, with the help of the singer Selma, to their real world by confronting Sirocco, the master of winds and storms… But is he as terrifying as they’re fearing? (BIAF 2023)

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White Plastic Sky by Tibor BÁNÓCZKI, Sarolta SZABÓ – Hungary, Slovakia | 2023 – 111 minutes | Korean Premiere
2123. Faced with diminishing resources, the human race can only survive through a trade-off: at the age of 50, every citizen is gradually turned into a tree. When Stefan discovers that his beloved wife Nora has voluntarily signed up for donating her own body before her time, he sets out on an adventurous journey to save her at all costs. (BIAF 2023)

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