Rima Das is a familiar face in Busan and has also had films screened in Berlin (Bulbul Can Sing) and...
Digital Desk: The 30 films chosen for this year's Asian Project Market (APM) at the Busan International Film Festival include brand-new productions from notable Asian directors like India's Rima Das, Japan's Koji Fukada, and Indonesia's Makbul Mubarak.
The Japan-France co-production Nagi Notes, which was produced by Osanai Terutaro, will be presented by Fukada, whose prior films Harmonium, The Real Thing, and Love Life had their world premieres in Cannes and Venice, respectively.
Watch It Burn, which was produced by Indonesian Yulia Evina Bhara, one of the producers of this year's Tiger Stripes, which won the Cannes Critics Week, is being brought by Mubarak, whose Autobiography had its Venice debut last year before travelling to Asia to collect accolades.
Rima Das is a familiar face in Busan and has also had films screened in Berlin (Bulbul Can Sing) and Toronto (Village Rockstars, Tora's Husband). She will screen Malti My Love, which the self-taught filmmaker will also produce, just as she has done with all of her prior works in which she also wrote, directed, and edited.
Along with Fukada's project, the APM lineup for this year includes several co-productions between Asia and Europe or Canada, such as Rafael Manuel's Filipiana, a collaboration between the Philippines, Singapore, and the UK, and Mr. Van, a film by Kim Quy Bui between Vietnam and Germany.
BIFF also reported receiving a significant number of proposals from China and Hong Kong this year, as well as an increase in the number of projects from Taiwan and Japan.
The 28th Busan International Film Festival will run from October 4–13, and APM will be placed at the Asian Contents & Film Market on October 7–10.
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