Festival unveils its official short film selection that includes Oscar-nominated Theodore Ushev’s latest film, ‘The Physics of Sorry’ and fellow nominee Konstantin Bronzit’s ‘He Can’t Live Without Cosmos.’
Oscar-nominated director Theodore Ushev's latest animated short, 'The Physics of Sorrow,' one of the short films just selected to compete at BIAF 2019 in Bucheon, Korea.
The Bucheon International Animation Festival (BIAF 2019), an Academy Award-qualifying festival, has announced its official short film selections for the upcoming October 18-22 festival. 114 animated films were chosen from a submission pool over over 2,400 films from 94 countries.
Held in each year in Bucheon, South Korea, BIAF accepts animated films in the following categories: Competition Feature, Short, Graduation and TV & Commissioned. Over KRW 46,000,000 (Approx. USD 42,000) in cash prizes will be awarded in six categories: Feature, Short, Graduation, TV & Commissioned, Korean Short and Online.
Selection highlights include Oscar-nominated director Theodore Ushev’s latest film, The Physics of Sorrow, and Konstantin Bronzit’s Oscar-nominated short, He Can’t Live Without Cosmos.
The complete list of films is as follows:
The Official Selection: Short Films
|
No |
Title |
Director |
Country |
|
1 |
Acid Rain |
Tomek POPAKUL |
Poland |
|
2 |
And then the Bear |
Agnès PATRON |
France |
|
3 |
Gaze |
AHN Yonghae |
South Korea |
|
4 |
He Can’t Live without Cosmos |
Konstantin BRONZIT |
Russia |
|
5 |
Home Sweet Home |
Chaitane CONVERSAT |
France |
|
6 |
Imbued Life |
Ivana BOSNJAK, Thomas JOHNSON |
Croatia |
|
7 |
Kitwana's Journey |
Ng'endo MUKII |
Kenya |
|
8 |
Knife Hanging from a Tree |
NAM Jihee |
USA,South Korea |
|
9 |
Leaking Life |
HAYASHI Shunsaku |
Japan |
|
10 |
Melting Heart Cake |
Benoît CHIEUX |
France |
|
11 |
Memorable |
Bruno COLLET |
France |
|
12 |
Metamorphosis |
Juan Fran JACINTO, Carla PEREIRA |
France,Spain |
|
13 |
Movements |
JEONG Dahee |
South Korea |
|
14 |
Mr. Mare |
Luca TÓTH |
Hungary |
|
15 |
No Dragon Village |
PARK Sehong |
South Korea |
|
16 |
No Objects |
Moïa JOBIN-PARÉ |
Canada |
|
17 |
Piece of Meat |
Jerrold CHONG, HUANG Junxiang |
Singapore |
|
18 |
Saigon sur Marne |
Aude Ha LEPLÈGE |
Belgium,France |
|
19 |
SHISHIGARI |
OSHIYAMA Kiyotaka |
Japan |
|
20 |
Sun Shower |
ISHII Toshimasa |
Japan |
|
21 |
Symbiosis |
Nadja ANDRASEV |
Hungary France |
|
22 |
Tadpole |
Jean-Claude ROZEC |
France |
|
23 |
The Coin |
Siqi SONG |
USA |
|
24 |
The First Class |
KIM Myungeun |
South Korea |
|
25 |
The Giraffe |
Rosalie LONCIN |
France |
|
26 |
The Girl from the Other Side |
KUBO Yutaro |
Japan |
|
27 |
The Phantom 52 |
Geoff MARSLETT |
USA |
|
28 |
The Physics of Sorrow |
Theodore USHEV |
Canada |
|
29 |
The Procession |
Pascal BLANCHET, Rodolphe SAINT-GELAIS |
Canada |
|
30 |
The Wheel Turns |
KIM Sangjoon |
South Korea,USA |
|
31 |
Toomas beneath the Valley of the Wild Wolves |
Chintis LUNDGREN, Draško IVEZIĆ |
Estonia,Croatia |
|
32 |
Winter in the Rainforest |
Anu-Laura TUTTELBERG |
Lithuania,France |
Konstantin Bronzit's Oscar-nominated short film, 'He Can't Live Without Cosmos,' one of the short films just selected to compete at BIAF 2019.
The Official Selection: Graduation Films
|
No |
Title |
Director |
Country |
|
1 |
2.3 x2.6 x 3.2 |
Jiaqi WANG |
UK |
|
2 |
A Day in the Life |
Anna LEE |
USA |
|
3 |
A Quack too Far |
Melissa CULHANE |
Ireland |
|
4 |
Bitter Sweet Morning |
Tyka BEUMERS |
Netherlands |
|
5 |
Blieschow |
Christoph SAROW |
Germany |
|
6 |
Culture Broth |
Léon MOH-CAH |
UK |
|
7 |
Daughter |
Daria KASHCHEEVA |
Czech Republic |
|
8 |
Entropia |
Flóra Anna BUDA |
Hungary |
|
9 |
Happy Ending |
Eunju Ara CHOI |
UK,South Korea |
|
10 |
Heat Wave |
Fokion XENOS |
Greece,UK |
|
11 |
Hedgehog |
Vaibhav KESWANI, Jeanne LAUREAU, Colombine MAJOU, Morgane MATTARD, Kaisa PIRTTINEN, Jongha YOON |
France |
|
12 |
Huilbui |
Sanna de VRIES |
Netherlands |
|
13 |
Knitcromancer |
Allison ROSSI, Ida ZHU, Becky SEAMANS |
USA |
|
14 |
Kukuru |
Julia Gomes RODRIGUES |
USA |
|
15 |
Me and My Magnet and My Dead Friend |
LIU Maoning |
China |
|
16 |
Memory of Blue |
HIRAI Akane, YANAGIDA Ryosuke , YAMAGUCHI Mai |
Japan |
|
17 |
MOM |
KIM Sukyoung, JO Kyeongwook |
South Korea |
|
18 |
No body |
Haemin KO |
UK |
|
19 |
Nymphs of the Woods |
Iulia MATEI |
UK |
|
20 |
o28 |
Otalia CAUSSÉ, Geoffroy COLLIN, Louise GRARDEL, Antoine MARCHAND, Robin MERLE, Fabien MEYRAN |
France |
|
21 |
Ode to Childhood |
Luís VITAL, João MONTEIRO |
Portugal |
|
22 |
One Liner |
Matthew LEE |
UK |
|
23 |
R.I.S.E Pathfinder |
Chloe DUMOULIN, Clementine DUDREUILH, Alexandre FRUITET, Megane NOUSSE, Gabriel SEPULCHRE |
France |
|
24 |
Secret |
Ysabel Congying LI |
USA |
|
25 |
Shattered |
Suyoung JANG |
USA,South Korea |
|
26 |
Solar Plexus |
David MCSHANE |
UK |
|
27 |
Stay One More Night |
CHEN Yu-i |
Taiwan |
|
28 |
Sticks & Stones |
Mark E LIM, Anna CONDE, Andrea WALKER |
USA |
|
29 |
Tell Me You Still Love Me |
Rui Ting JI |
Canada |
|
30 |
The Beekeeper |
Robyn CONROY |
Ireland |
|
31 |
The Fox & The Pigeon |
Michelle CHUA, Aileen DEWHURST, Sharon GABRIELLA, Viktor IVANOVSKI, Sang LEE, Tyler PACANA, Sikyung Kevin SUNG, Morgan THOMPSON, Matt WALTON, Steven WANG, Chelsea van TOL |
Canada |
|
32 |
The Kite |
Martin SMATANA |
Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia |
|
33 |
The Little Soul |
Barbara RUPIK |
Poland |
|
34 |
The Mitten |
Sophie MARTIN |
France |
|
35 |
The Sea within the Room |
HSUEH Fang-Yi , LIU Ya-Ching |
Taiwan |
|
36 |
The Switch |
Josh BAUM, Brittany MARISCO |
USA |
|
37 |
Through the Eyes of You |
Laura VAN DER ZEE |
Netherlands |
|
38 |
Two |
Emre OKTEN |
USA |
|
39 |
When the Light Comes |
Hang XU |
UK |
|
40 |
SWITCH |
PARK Hyelin |
South Korea |
|
41 |
A Ghost is Sitting Next to You |
YOON Shinjeong |
South Korea |
The Official Selection: TV & Commissions Films
|
No |
Title |
Director |
Country |
|
1 |
A Town Called Panic-The County Fair |
Vincent PATAR, Stéphane AUBIER |
Belgium,France |
|
2 |
Aaaanibar |
Britt RAES |
Belgium |
|
3 |
At The Kitchen Table: Stories of Migration and Resilience |
Kate ANDERSON, Sonia KNEEPKENS, Fan SISSOKO |
UK |
|
4 |
BAUM - Ici-bas |
Sébastien LAUDENBACH |
France |
|
5 |
Brazen-Episode “Annette Kellerman” |
Mai NGUYEN, Sarah SAIDAN |
France |
|
6 |
DAVSS: The Monster |
Katie STEED |
UK |
|
7 |
Dimitri et la Drôle de Surprise |
Agnès Le CREUX |
France,Belgium, Switzerland |
|
8 |
Hello Jemima |
Peter BAYNTON |
UK |
|
9 |
Ode |
Shadi ADIB |
Germany |
|
10 |
Sherwood |
Bruce CARTER |
USA,New Zealand |
|
11 |
The Beatles - Glass Onion |
Alasdair BROTHERSTON, Jock MOONEY |
UK |
|
12 |
The Myth of Dragon's Mountain |
Asghar SAFAR, Abbas Jalali YEKTA |
Iran |
|
13 |
We Will See Someday |
HONG Nari |
South Korea |
|
14 |
Welder |
Roos MATTAAR |
UK |
The Official Selection: Korean Films
|
No |
Title |
Director |
Country |
|
1 |
Before I Leave |
LEE Jimin |
South Korea |
|
2 |
Bermuda |
HA Hyewon, CHOI Jungyoon, CHOI Hyeyoung |
South Korea |
|
3 |
Bruise |
KIM Seungjun |
South Korea |
|
4 |
GALAPAGOS |
HUR Bumwook |
South Korea |
|
5 |
Gaze |
AHN Yonghae |
South Korea |
|
6 |
Jesa |
SONG Kyungwon |
USA,South Korea |
|
7 |
Knife Hanging from a tree |
NAM Jihee |
USA,South Korea |
|
8 |
Le Mot |
BAEK Miyoung |
South Korea |
|
9 |
Merry Cleaningmas |
KIM Sol, KIM Jungin, LEE Jiwon |
South Korea |
|
10 |
Movements |
JEONG Dahee |
South Korea |
|
11 |
No Dragon Village |
PARK Sehong |
South Korea |
|
12 |
SAN |
WOO Jin |
South Korea |
|
13 |
Snail Man |
PARK Jaebeom |
South Korea |
|
14 |
Somewhere, The Forest |
HYUN Yujeong |
South Korea |
|
15 |
The First Class |
KIM Myungeun |
South Korea |
The Official Selection: Online Films
|
No |
Title |
Director |
Country |
|
1 |
A Poem in Bamboo |
Xufei WU, Chun Yao CHANG |
USA |
|
2 |
Amaryllis |
Wong Ying KWAN, Ng Wing KIU |
Hong Kong |
|
3 |
Grandpa's Favourite Origami |
Yihan WANG |
New Zealand, USA |
|
4 |
Honey |
HIRAI Kotono |
Japan |
|
5 |
Journey to the Beyond |
YAMAGUCHI Mai |
Japan |
|
6 |
Just a Small |
KIM Nakyung |
USA |
|
7 |
KINCET SIDE |
YOO HyoungJoon |
USA |
|
8 |
Light in Deep |
DU Sunyoung |
UK |
|
9 |
Love at First Light |
Cain |
USA |
|
10 |
Not Alone |
Santos FILIPA |
UK |
|
11 |
Rapunzel |
Juan Pablo MACHADO |
France |
|
12 |
Send a Heart |
LIANG Ya-jyun |
Taiwan |
You can find more information about the festival and selections here.
Source: BIAF 2019
