Bucheon International Animation Festival BIAF

Festival Description

Bucheon International Animation Festival (BIAF) is an Academy AwardⓇ Qualifying International Animation Festival, which includes general competition section,  feature films, short films, graduation films, Korean short films, TV&Commissioned films and VR works. The festival is to spread the true charm of animation genre and to grow as an expert animation film festival in Asia.

2022 Call for Entries

 Animated films must have been completed after January 2021 and must not have been submitted to previous BIAF.

** Animated Film Only
** Preferable at least Korean Premiere
** Considered Priority for Premiere Condition.

BIAF2021 accepts all animated films

• Competition Features
• Short (no longer than 40 minutes)
• Graduation (no longer than 40 minutes)
• TV&Commissioned
• VR Works.

Over KRW 53,000,000 (Approx. USD 46,000) in cash prizes will be awarded in six categories: Feature, Short, Graduation, TV& Commissioned, Korean Short and VR.

*Feature Film Competition
Grand Prize - 11,000,000 KRW
Jury Prize - 3,000,000 KRW
Special Distinction Prize ① - 2,000,000 KRW
Special Distinction Prize ② - 2,000,000 KRW
Audience Prize - 1,000,000 KRW

*Short Film Competition
Grand Prize - 9,000,000 KRW
Jury Prize - 3,000,000 KRW
Special Distinction Prize ① - 2,000,000 KRW
Special Distinction Prize ② - 2,000,000 KRW
Special Distinction Prize ③ - 2,000,000 KRW
Audience Prize - 1,000,000 KRW
AniB's Choice - 1,000,000 KRW

*Korean Short Film Competition
Jury Prize - 3,000,000 KRW
Special Distinction Prize - 1,000,000 KRW

*Graduation Film Competition
Jury Prize - 3,000,000 KRW

*TV&Commissioned Film Competition
Jury Prize - 2,000,000 KRW

*VR Competition
Jury Prize - 2,000,000 KRW

*Special Prize / **Special Prizes can be added
COCOMICS Music Prize - 3,000,000 KRW

• Entry form via festival site or FilmFreeway
• Deadline: 30 June (Short, Graduation, TV&Commissioned), 31 July  2022 (Feature, VR)

2021 Festival Coverage

• Awards
• Feature Film Selection
• Short Film Selection
• Children of the Sea director to Design 2021 Festival Trailer and Poster

2020 Festival Coverage

• 2020 BIAF Winners
• Meet the BIAF 2020 Juries
• 7+1 Animation Features for BIAF 2020
• Selection Results 2020
• Anca Damian designs the BIAF 2020 Festival poster and trailer
  
  

2019 Festival Coverage

• 114 Films for BIAF 2019
• Meet the BIAF 2019 Juries
• 13 VR Films for BIAF 2019
• Denis Do Creates the 2019 BIAF Poster

2019 Festival Trailer:

A Female Warrior and Lion Sculptures Emphasizes Spiritual Relationship in Khmer Style. Created by Denis Do.

I have always admired a female character who practices bokator, a Khmer martial art. Though the stage in film is very limited as it is a teaser, I wanted to show an alternation of double-sided, ambivalent concepts: being active and being powerless; an organic matter and inorganic matter;  and the finiteness and infiniteness of time. These contrasting ideas conflict with each other to form a new harmony - Denis Do

2018 Festival Coverage

• 9 Animation Features for the 20th BIAF
• Meet the 2018 BIAF Juries
• 40+29 Films for 2018 BIAF
• Sunao Katabuchi Designs the 2018 BIAF Poster and Trailer
• Sunao Katabuchi to Head the 2018 BIAF Jury

2017 Festival Coverage

•  7 Features in Competition
• 37+40 Shorts in BIAF 2017
• Sebastien Laudenbach Designs the 2017 BIAF Poster

2016 Festival Coverage

• Before Love, The Girl Without Hands Win at BIAF 2016
• Sylvain Chomet Unveils A Thousand Miles at BIAF, Korea
• Sarah Saidan Designs the 2016b BIAF Poster

2015 Festival Coverage

• BIAF 2015: More European Than It Would Otherwise Look
• Miss Hokusai, Beach Flags win at BIAF 2015

NB: 2023 Festival Dates are tentative