Asian Contents & Film Market

Asian Project Market Showcase Ⅰ

Sat, 20 September, 13:00 - 14:35 | Day 1
Event Room C

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Directors and producers of this year’s official selections present their projects at the Asian Project Market Showcase. The showcase features 30 Asian feature film projects that reflect political, social, and cultural diversity, with on-site registration available for additional business meetings following the event.

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Moderator

KIM Young (Curator, Busan International Film Festival Asian Contents & Film Market)

Producer Kim Young has worked across various sectors of the film industry, building a diverse and international career. She worked on film projects as a producer at Motion 101, a production company affiliated with Showbox, and later served as team head of the Diversity Film Division at Movie Collage, which later became Art House under CGV. There, she focused on programming independent and art house films. She then moved to Los Angeles, where she led theatrical promotion of Korean films as team head of the exhibition division at CJ E&M US, working with CGV Cinemas to expand the presence of Korean cinema in the U.S. market. More recently, she produced international co-production documentaries between Korea and France, including The Man Who Paints Water Drops (Kim Oan, Brigitte Bouillot, 2021) and Everything That Connects Us (Jung, 2024), demonstrating her commitment to global storytelling. Currently, she serves as a curator at the Asian Contents & Film Market (ACFM), contributing to various project market support programs, including the Asian Project Market (APM).

(Pitching Order)
*Supported by ACF Script Development Fund

No.	Project Title	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Production Country/Region
1	Black Star Angel*	Christine HAROUTOUNIAN	Maxwell SCHWARTZ Christine HAROUTOUNIAN	Armenia/United States
	Logline Suzanna is no militant. But when her life begins to crumble, she enlists in a war she does not understand in a place she has never been.
2	Buy My Car	ZHANG Yaoyuan	KUNIZANE Mizue ICHIYAMA Shozo MO Zhulin	Japan/China
	Logline Xiao Ma, a struggling Chinese PhD student in Japan, barely survives by running an illegal taxi. But when his only car—and lifeline—is stolen, just before graduation, he embarks on a desperate, absurd quest to replace it.
3	Dance Dance Revolution	CHOI Hana	AN Boyoung	Korea
	Logline Halloween tragedy survivors Yongsun and Surim create a 'drinking, dancing, partying club for introverts’, in memory of their lost friend—but the stigma surrounding the disaster turns them against each other.
4	The Daughter	GUAN Tian	Vivian BAO DING Ningyuan Patrick Mao HUANG Alexa RIVERO	Hong Kong, China/Taiwan/France
	Logline In the midst of a population crisis, a teenage girl in a remote village is forced into pregnancy, only to discover that the fetus growing inside her is a vengeful spirit, longing to be reborn through her body—yet, they share an inexplicable and intimate bond.
5	The Descent	KIM Hyoeun	PARK Hyunsuk	Korea
	Logline A detective, who rejects superstition, and a shaman’s daughter, about to complete her spiritual initiation, pursue a missing boy—facing the scars left by twisted love, and finding redemption in their shared silence.
6	Difficult Daughters	Soni RAZDAN	Alia BHATT Shaheen BHATT Grishma SHAH Alan MCALEX	India
	Logline In pre-independence India, a bold, young woman defies tradition to marry a man who is already married. Decades later, her secret is unearthed by her granddaughter, to a reckoning that liberates three generations of mothers and daughters.
7	Disorder	Shawkat AMIN KORKI	Shohreh GOLPARIAN Shawkat AMIN KORKI Mehmet AKTAS	Kurdistan (Iraq)/Germany
	Logline After a patient’s suicide, psychiatrist Dr. Mina battles a devout exorcist and the victim’s superstitious family, determined to expose how their beliefs blocked medical care and led to tragedy.
8	Flying Cows	NGUYEN Pham Thanh Dat	NGUYEN Huu Thi Tuong Vi	Vietnam
	Logline To lift his family out of poverty, honest but struggling farmhand, Trau, must steal a secret milk formula, without knowing that his growing love for the scientist who created it will force him to choose between his family’s future and the girl he can no longer lie to.
9	Gochi	YOON Eunkyoung	Stanley KWAK	Korea
	Logline A travel vlogger couple visits a lakeside village by chance. After tasting a fish called ‘Gochi’, the village’s bizarre truth is revealed, and they struggle to save each other from a mad festival.
10	The Last of Them Plagues (Guptam)	Kunjila MASCILLAMANI	Payal KAPADIA Jeo BABY Kani KUSRUTI	India
	Logline When her daughter vanishes in a graveyard, a single mother moves to a conservative rural town, where disasters follow. Now, she must prove she isn’t the cause of God’s wrath.
11	Lost and Cow	Thapanee LOOSUWAN	Chonlasit UPANIGKIT Somprasong SRIKRAJANG	Thailand
	Logline When his prized Thai-French cow vanishes three days before slaughter, a new-gen cattleman must track it down—before his life’s masterpiece becomes just another piece of meat on someone else’s plate.
12	The Magical Men	Biplob SARKAR	Biplob SARKAR Fran BORGIA Francois d'ARTEMARE Sankhajit BISWAS	Bangladesh/Singapore/France/India
	Logline Bahurupi performers, Sukumar and Hemanta, while navigating the fading artistry of Hindu mythological portrayals, intertwined with forbidden queer love, reach a tragic end that challenges their identities and cultural norms.
13	Moon	Pradip KURBAH	Pradip KURBAH Shankar GOENKA	India
	Logline In a rain-soaked village, three lives intertwine; an ailing man haunted by his past, a woman fighting trauma and tradition, and a stranger seeking truth; each confronting pain and longing for redemption.
14	The Skull Oracle	Laha MEBOW	Eric LIANG Zara LIN	Taiwan
	Logline The oracle is a vessel between ancestral power and intergenerational female trauma. The protagonist’s body and soul become a conduit for forgotten history.
15	Snake in the Dreamscapes	LOU Yi-an	KAO Chun Ting HSU Guo Lun Angel Wen CHEN	Taiwan
	Logline Spanning across 75 years, three dreams link the fates of two souls, and intertwine with three murders. Who are the murderers? Does true evil exist?