26th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival
Official poster
Opening filmMen by Alex Garland
Closing filmNew Normal by Jeong Beom-sik
LocationBucheon, South Korea
Awards
Hosted byBIFAN Organizing Committee
No. of films268 films from 49 countries (118 features, 104 shorts, 42 XR)
Festival dateOpening: July 7, 2022 (2022-07-07)
Closing: July 17, 2022 (2022-07-17)
WebsiteBIFAN 2022 Fact Sheet
Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival
27th

The 26th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (Korean: 제26회 부천국제판타스틱영화제), an international film festival held in Bucheon, South Korea, began on 7 July 2022 with the slogan 'Stay Strange'.[1] A non-competitive international film festival with a competitive section,[2] opened with film Men by Alex Garland. This year the festival resumed its offline events after two years, which were curtailed due to COVID-19.[3]

The opening ceremony was hosted by Park Byung-eun and Han Sun-hwa,[4] with the red carpet event held during the festival after 2 years. In addition face-to-face interaction between directors, actors, producers, and other people in the film industry and the audience also took place.[5] The festival featured 268 films from 49 countries, and closed with New Normal, a Korean film by Jeong Beom-sik on July 17. 92,353 people participated in the festival in 11 days.[6][7]

You Won't Be Alone by Goran Stolevski won 'Best of Bucheon award', whereas Christian Tafdrup of Denmark won 'Best Director Choice' for film Speak No Evil.[8]

Events

Halloween in July: Stay Strange

July 8 — July 9
Bucheon City Hall Lawn Square, Sohyang-ro, Bucheon Jungang Park, Ahn Jung-geun Park, BIFAN Street, Koryo Hotel

Special exhibition

The festival will resume the event after 3 years and host an actor special exhibition 'The Actor, Sol Kyung-gu' focusing on actor Sol Kyung-gu's 29-year acting career along with various events such as the publication of a commemorative booklet entitled 'Sol Kyung-gu is Snow Gyeong-gu', and mega talk during the festival.[9][10]

Jury

Sources:[11]

Bucheon Choice: Features

Korean Fantastic: Features

Bucheon Choice: Shorts and Korean Fantastic: Shorts

MIFF Award for Best Asian Film

NETPAC Award

Program

Sources:[12][13][14][15]

Opening film

Source:[16]

English title Original title Director(s) Production country
Men Alex Garland United Kingdom, United States

Closing film

English title Original title Director(s) Production country
New Normal 소름 Jeong Beom-sik South Korea

Bucheon Choice

Bucheon Choice Features

Highlighted title and ‡ indicates award winner

Bucheon Choice Shorts

Korean Fantastic

Korean Fantastic: Features

Highlighted title and ‡ indicates award winner

Korean Fantastic: Shorts

Korean Fantastic: Series Killer - Taste of Horror

Korean Fantastic: Series Killer - MONSTROUS

Korean Fantastic: Series Killer - SEEN

Korean Fantastic: Series Killer - Shortbusters

Mad MaxX

Adrenaline Ride

Metal Noir

Merry-Go-Round

Odd Family

Strange Hommage

XL

The Actor, Sol Kyung-gu

39+1 Korean Academy of Film Arts(KAFA) in BIFAN

39+1 KAFA in BIFAN: Features

39+1 KAFA in BIFAN: Shorts

Boys, Be, Love

Awards and winners

Source:[17][18][19][20][21][22]

Bucheon Choice

Bucheon Choice Features

Bucheon Choice Shorts

Korean Fantastic

Korean Fantastic: Features

Korean Fantastic: Short

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

This award is intended to discover and promote Asian genre films.

NETPAC Award

This award is given by the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC).

Odd Family Award

Series Film Award

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