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BIFAN 2023 Award Winners

Iron Mask (2023) by Kim Sung-hwan

On Friday, July 7th, the 27th announced the winners of this year's feature competition section during the closing ceremony at the 500 plus seats Main Theater inside Bucheon City Hall. The ceremony was followed by the screening of the festival's closing film “Sana” by Japanese horror master Shimizu Takashi, a world premiere.

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Bucheon Choice: Features

Best of Bucheon KRW – 20,000,000 (approx. 15,000US$)

Sorcery by Christopher MURRAY

Best Director Choice – KRW 5,000,000 (approx. 4,000US$)

Superposition by Karoline LYNGBYE

Jury's Choice – KRW 5,000,000 (approx. 4,000US$)

The Artifice Girl by Franklin RITCH

Audience Award

The Artifice Girl by Franklin RITCH 

Korean Fantastic: Features

Best Korean Fantastic Film – 20,000,000 (approx. 15,000US$)

 by KIM Sung Hwan

Korean Fantastic Best Director – KRW 5,000,000 (approx. 4,000US$)

Risk Society (2023) by Kim Byung-jun

 by KIM Byung Jun

Korean Fantastic Actors:

JUNG E-seo in 

JANG Seongbeom in Abroad

Korean Fantastic Audience Award

Abroad by Giovanni FUMU 

Nonghyup Award – Distribution Award / KRW 10,000,000 (approx. 8,000US$)

Her Hobby by HA Myung-mi

Watcha's Pick for Korean Fantastic – KRW 3,000,000 (2,300US$)

IRON MASK by KIM Sung Hwan

Special Mention

Unknown Narrative: Skyrocket Junipers Under the Crescent by YANG Gun-young

Méliès International Festivals Federation(MIFF) Award for Best Asian Film

Best Regards to All (2023) by Yuta Shimotsu

 by SHIMOTSU Yuta

NETPAC Award

Hungry Ghost Diner by CHO We Jun

Odd Familiy Award

Battery Mommy by JEON Seungbae

Burger Song Challenge by KIM Min-ha

About the author

Panos Kotzathanasis

My name is Panos Kotzathanasis and I am Greek. Being a fan of Asian cinema and especially of Chinese kung fu and Japanese samurai movies since I was a little kid, I cultivated that love during my adolescence, to extend to the whole of SE Asia.

Starting from my own blog in Greek, I then moved on to write for some of the major publications in Greece, and in a number of websites dealing with (Asian) cinema, such as Taste of Cinema, Hancinema, EasternKicks, Chinese Policy Institute, and of course, Asian Movie Pulse. in which I still continue to contribute.

In the beginning of 2017, I launched my own website, Asian Film Vault, which I merged in 2018 with Asian Movie Pulse, creating the most complete website about the Asian movie industry, as it deals with almost every country from East and South Asia, and definitely all genres.

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