These are twenty short films that you shouldn’t miss at the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival which will take place in cinemas and online from July 8th – 18th, 2021.

About the festival:
The Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFAN) aims to consolidate its identity as a ‘Fantastic Film Festival’ through Fantastic-Genre films and to provide a new and diverse aspects toward Genre film. BIFAN also encourages the understanding of different cultures through the art of fantastic films and facilitates exchange of ideas among film industry professionals from all around the world and those from Korea. Furthermore, the Festival promotes including but not limited to the production and distribution of fantastic films.

– Selected Films –

Someone next door connects my bluetooth speaker. Who the hell are you? (BIFAN 2021)

Schedule:
Sunday, 11 July 2021 | CGV Sopung 8 | 13:30 pm
Tuesday, 13 July 2021 | CGV Sopung 11 | 11:00 am

Killer Cashy must kill the person she loves most in order to become the godmother’s successor. (BIFAN 2021)

Schedule:
Saturday, 10 July 2021 | CGV Sopung 8 | 16:30 pm
Wednesday, 14 July 2021 | CGV Sopung 8 | 10:30 am

A post-Pandemic world where mysterious phenomena and the digital world collide. A suspicious exhibition is captured by two police officers chasing a serial murder case, but the suspicious contemporary artist who they happen to meet in the exhibition subtly escapes the police investigation network. A noir with unique sentiments with the intense black-and-white screen filled with surreal and expressive images that show the director’s firm visual style. (Gina KANG) (BIFAN 2021)

Schedule:
Friday, 9 July 2021 | CGV Sopung 8 | 19:30 pm
Monday, 12 July 2021 | CGV Sopung 11 | 14:00 pm

It is pouring when Kim Nari, who is rather indifferent to other people, starts her first day off at the Hope Daycare Center. Nari is just marking her time thinking the nursery is a little off. It is  her job to take care of the kids waiting for their parents when her colleague irresponsibly left them behind. (BIFAN 2021)

Schedule:
Tuesday, 13 July 2021 | CGV Sopung 11 | 17:00 pm
Thursday, 15 July 2021 | CGV Sopung 11 | 11:00 am

Inja is a writer and she is pregnant. Her husband suggests they throw away Inja’s desk as their place is getting more and more crowded with baby supplies. Wooseong, a famous writer, happens to notice the desk and buys it from Inja’s husband at a bargain. Although she can’t fathom why, Inja is uncomfortable with Wooseong’s kindness. (BIFAN 2021)

Schedule:
Friday, 9 July 2021 | CGV Sopung 9 | 20:00 pm
Sunday, 11 July 2021 | CGV Sopung 4 | 10:30 am

Hyojeong, she is the second of twins who has secretly been raised. One day, she was suggested to go to school and take a test instead of her sister. (BIFAN 2021)

Schedule:
Saturday, 10 July 2021 | CGV Sopung 8 | 13:30 pm
Wednesday, 14 July 2021 | CGV Sopung 11 | 11:00 am

Late at night, a man passing through a deserted street finds an eye-catching claw machine with colorful lights. Curious about the phrase that says to collect seven-color toys, he challenges to pull them out every night, and finally collects all colors of toys, given an unexpected prize. It’s a Taiwanese horror with strong attraction power with dark imagination and stylish production. (Gina KANG) (BIFAN 2021)

Schedule:
Tuesday, 13 July 2021 | CGV Sopung 8 | 16:30 pm
Thursday, 15 July 2021 | CGV Sopung 4 | 19:30 pm

“Soulmate scientifically exists.” It’s a story about a society where everyone believes in the existence of soulmates. Sarah goes to the green hill to find her very own soulmate. She finally meets Yvonne, her soulmate. But their story is not a happy ending. (BIFAN 2021)

Schedule:
Tuesday, 13 July 2021 | CGV Sopung 11 | 20:00 pm
Thursday, 15 July 2021 | CGV Sopung 4 | 16:30 pm

A young man falls in love with painting and as an adult, he falls in love with another person. Nothing lasts forever, and he eventually finds himself a broken man who puts a bandage, literally, on his past and his mind on the future in order to move on. As he faces his own mortality, does he learn to accept the life he’s led? (BIFAN 2021)

Schedule:
Saturday, 10 July 2021 | CGV Sopung 8 | 13:30 pm
Tuesday, 13 July 2021 | CGV Sopung 11 | 20:00 pm

Animation based on Taiwan’s promising young director Joe HSIEH’s worldview of the virtuous and punitive. An old lady’s expensive necklace disappears on a desolate late-night bus carrying tired passengers, and the driver and passengers accuse a man on the bus. However, the situation takes a new turn as an unexpected passenger gets on the bus. This gruesome fable depicts the inner darkness and psychology of a varied group of people on a late-night bus. (BIFAN 2021)

Schedule:
Saturday, 10 July 2021 | CGV Sopung 11 | 17:00 pm
Tuesday, 13 July 2021 | CGV Sopung 8 | 13:30 pm

Six years ago, the wife of a de facto marriage went missing in Hamyang after a bus accident. Her husband visits after hearing a tip that she has registered her marriage with another man. She is unable to remember the past. The man asks her current husband to visit Okcheon with her. She recalls a memory of where she lived with the man a long time ago. (BIFAN 2021)

Schedule:
Friday, 9 July 2021 | CGV Sopung 5 | 13:30 pm
Sunday, 11 July 2021 | CGV Sopung 10 | 14:00 pm

The long history of human civilization, exploring class, culture, religion and ideology, as a huge pyramid that acts like a precise machine. Through its stunning and overwhelming scale and detail, it’s as though we have seen an opera about human history. (BIFAN 2021)

Schedule:
Sunday, 11 July 2021 | CGV Sopung 9 | 13:30 pm

Dajung, beloved by teachers and classmates, hides her dream to become an author. One day, Dajung meets a new girl – Seojung, who has won an award at a writing competition in which Dajung had no success. As she gets to know more and more about Seojung, Dajung has mixed feelings of admiration, jealousy, and self-doubt. A school writing competition is coming up. Dajung longs for Seojung’s world. (BIFAN 2021)

Schedule:
Sunday, 11 July 2021 | CGV Sopung 8 | 19:30 pm
Wednesday, 14 July 2021 | CGV Sopung 8 | 13:30 pm

Weary from his wife’s repeated suicide attempts, the husband seeks help from a secretive agent who an old doctor introduced to him. In the middle of the night, “they” come to his house. (BIFAN 2021)

Schedule:
Friday, 9 July 2021 | CGV Sopung 4 | 10:30 am
Sunday, 11 July 2021 | CGV Sopung 10 | 20:00 pm

Hanbin’s mother doesn’t come back home for a month, then rats begin to come out. They expand their territory from the kitchen to the living room, and spread all over the house. So Hanbin lives in a room with her younger sister Hana, avoiding the rats. (BIFAN 2021)

Schedule:
Tuesday, 13 July 2021 | CGV Sopung 8 | 19:30 pm
Thursday, 15 July 2021 | CGV Sopung 4 | 10:30 am

A woman taxidermist dreams of stuffing people, while a man is afraid of getting older and wants to freeze his time. These two meet each other by destiny and fall in love at first sight. This amazing musical film with the grotesque romance of the main characters won this year’s SXSW Film Festival for its outstanding musical performance and artistic perfection. (BIFAN 2021)

Schedule:
Saturday, 10 July 2021 | CGV Sopung 8 | 10:30 am
Tuesday, 13 July 2021 | CGV Sopung 8 | 10:30 am

Late at night in a village in Turkey, Emre and Nazli, who love each other deeply, try to find a hotel for the night, but there is nowhere for this young couple without a marriage certificate. They deceive the hotel staff and are finally together, but the resulting sweetness soon turns bitter. The Criminals portrays surprisingly and realistically the increasingly conservative social atmosphere of Turkey, through the embarrassed feelings of the troubled young couple. (BIFAN 2021)

Schedule:
Saturday, 10 July 2021 | CGV Sopung 8 | 10:30 am
Tuesday, 13 July 2021 | CGV Sopung 8 | 10:30 am

After taking care of her mother for a long time, Hyo-eun inherits her mother’s house after she passed away. She tries to escape her mother’s shadow by removing any trace of her in the house. But as she is doing so, she hears whispers of her mother’s voice and strange things begin to happen. (BIFAN 2021)

Schedule:
Friday, 9 July 2021 | CGV Sopung 5 | 13:30 pm
Sunday, 11 July 2021 | CGV Sopung 10 | 14:00 pm

School police officer Jae-Yeon gets on the phone from an anonymous girl. And the girl on the phone is just screaming out and gets off the phone. The day after day, she realized that the girl had disappeared. She goes to the girl’s school to find out what happened to the girl. (BIFAN 2021)

Schedule:
Saturday, 10 July 2021 | CGV Sopung 8 | 13:30 pm
Wednesday, 14 July 2021 | CGV Sopung 11 | 11:00 am

Minnesota 1880: Three Norwegian sisters are living alone in a settler’s cabin on a desolate prairie. Then, the trust between each other is tested when suddenly a stranger appears on their land. When the eldest, Ingrid, invites him in to heal her dying sister Ada, she doesn’t realize that a supernatural force is crossing her threshold. (BIFAN 2021)

Schedule:
Saturday, 10 July 2021 | CGV Sopung 11 | 17:00 pm
Tuesday, 13 July 2021 | CGV Sopung 8 | 13:30 pm

For more information please go to: http://www.bifan.kr/eng