The Asian Project Market, run alongside the Busan International Film Festival, has selected 27 projects for its 2016 edition. The selections come from 16 countries.
The event looks further to the west of Asia than it has in recent years, with the fairly rare sight of selections for projects from Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. The line-up also features new projects from old friends auch as Shawkat Amin Korki, who won Busan’s New Currents Award in 2009 with Kick Off, Aylan Kurdi and brings Stone Land to APM.
It seems diversity has even become a thing in Korea, with organisers noting an increase in the number of submissions from female directors and/or producers. Four of the six Korean projects selected have female directors or producers. There’s less female participation in the international selections, which includes producer Lorna Tee (with Indonesian director Edwin (Postcards from the Zoo) and Thai filmmaker Pimpaka Towira, whose The Island Funeral (pictured, top) was a winner in Tokyo last year.
The Asian Project Market will run 9 – 11 October. The Busan International Film Festival will run 6 – 15 October. The projects selected for APM are:
| Production | Country | Director(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| International Projects | |||
| All About Yuyu | Malaysia | TAN Chui Mui | FOO Fei Ling |
| Aylan Kurdi | Iran Turkey |
Batin GHOBADI | Bahman GHOBADI |
| Beautiful Shadows | Indonesia | Nan T. ACHNAS | Nurman HAKIM |
| Blame It on My Youth | Taiwan | WANG Wei-ming | YU Wei-yen Jay MIAO |
| The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine | Japan | ZEZE Takahisa | SAKAGUCHI Kazunao TAKAMATSU Miyuki |
| Cu Li Never Cries | Vietnam | PHAM NGOC Lan | PHAN Dang Di |
| The Gambler | Hong Kong | Freddie WONG | Freddie WONG |
| The General’s Secret | Thailand | Pimpaka TOWIRA | Donsaron KOVITVANITCHA |
| The God of Karatas Village | Kazakhstan | Adilkhan YERZHANOV | Olga KHLASHEVA |
| The India Story | India | Suman GHOSH | Suman GHOSH |
| Insect Night | Latvia Estonia |
Laila PAKALNINA | Laila PAKALNINA Kaspar KALLAS |
| Love and Vengeance | Indonesia | Edwin | Meiske TAURISIA Lorna TEE Muhammad ZAIDY |
| Mountain Eyes | Serbia | Pavle VUCKOVIC | Tatjana ZEZELJ GOJKOVIC |
| Ningdu | Hong Kong China |
LEI Lei | Isabelle GLACHANT LIANG Ying LEI Lei |
| Parvona | India Tajikistan |
Sharofat ARABOVA | Pushpendra SINGH |
| Sayakbay. Homer of the 20th Century | Kyrgyzstan | Ernest ABDYJAPAROV | Samatbek IBRAEV |
| Silence | Kazakhstan | Yerlan NURMUKHAMBETOV | Julia KIM |
| Starring Ranbir & Hrithik | India | Sanjoy NAG | Sanjoy NAG |
| Stone Land | Iraq Japan Germany |
Shawkat Amin KORKI | Mehmet AKTAS Shohreh GOLPARIAN |
| White Building | Cambodia France |
NEANG Kavich | Davy CHOU Marine ARRIGHI DE CASANOVA Steve CHEN |
| Youth and Other Stories | Japan France |
FUKADA Koji TAKE Masaharu MATSUNAGA Daishi UCHIDA Eiji |
Bryerly LONG |
| Korean Projects | |||
| The Cold-blooded Penguin | Korea | JANG Kunjae | KIM Woori KIM Hwabeom YOUN Heeyoung |
| The Emperor | Korea | MIN Byung-hun | LEE Sang-hun KIM Suk-bum |
| The French Woman | Korea | KIM Hee-Jung | YOO ByungOk |
| Paradise Lost | Korea | KIM Gina | KIM Seonah |
| Project Lee Jung-Seob | Korea | YIM SoonRye | Jason CHAE |
| Undefined | Korea | SEO Eunyoung | PARK Youngsoo |
