The 16th Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) has announced 13 films from 12 countries for the New Currents competition of up-and-coming Asian directors.

The selection is made up of 11 world and two international premieres. Tongpong Chantarangkul’s I Carried You Home is also a recipient of Busan’s Asian Cinema Fund (ACF) Script Development and Post-production funds. Tom Shu-yu Lin’s Starry, Starry Night was also a former PPP project and ACF Post-production Fund winner.

The festival noted Southeast Asia has produced remarkable films this year and that the New Currents films this year run under the themes of “homecoming”, “alienation”, “family” and “growing”.

The 16th BIFF runs Oct 6 – 14 with the Asian Film Market and Asian Project Market running Oct 10 – 13.

New Currents Lineup

August Drizzle, dir Aruna Jayawardana (Sri Lanka)

Choked, dir Kim Joon-hyun (Korea)

Damn Life, dir Kitagawa Hitoshi (Japan)

Here….or There?, dir Siu Pham (Vietnam / Switzerland

I Carried You Home, dir Tongpong Chantarangkul (Thailand / Singapore)

Lost in the Mountain, dir Gao Zipeng (China)

The Mirror Never Lies, dir Kamila Andini (Indonesia)

Mourning, dir Morteza Farshbaf (Iran)

Niño, dir Loy Acrenas (Philippines)

The Passion of a Man Called Choe Che-u, dir Stanley Park (Korea)

Return to Burma, dir Midi Z (Myanmar / Taiwan)

Starry Starry Night, dir Tom Shu-yu Lin (Taiwan / China)

Watch Indian Circus, dir Mangesh Hadawale (India)

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