“Obsession” and “Teenage Sex and Death in Miasma Camp” lead the selection for the BIFAN international competition

The Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival in South Korea has selected a lineup of 11 films for the international competition in its 30th edition. Cary Parker’s psychological horror mania And the opening credits of “Un Certain Regard” by director Jean Schönbrunn at the Cannes Film Festival Teen sex and death in Miasma camp It is among the most prominent selection.

The competition – renamed “Bucheon’s Choice: World Features” as part of a programming overhaul for this year’s landmark edition – is the festival’s mainstay, determining its grand prize, “The Best of Bucheon.” Founded in 1997 and now among Asia’s largest exhibitions of horror, fantasy and suspense cinema, BIFAN takes place from July 2 to 12 in Bucheon, west of Seoul.

The lineup is based on highlights from the recent festival circuit. From Cannes, alongside Schönbrunn’s meta-film – which recasts the 1980s summer camp subgenre through a queer lens – comes Marion Le Courroller’s Classifya midnight body horror piece about an upper generation whose fears turn physical. From Sundance comes Makoto Nagahisa Burnsanother portrait of restless youth, and a portrait of Adrian Chiarella LeviticusMidnight Entrance fuses exotic romance and horror through the language of Christian taboo. maniaa Toronto premiere that has since turned into one of the most unexpected box office successes of the year with rare, late weekend gains, traces how a forbidden desire turns into a supernatural horror.

A curious sensibility runs through many of the selections, which include countries including Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Spain, Ireland, Finland and Australia.

Two titles in the lineup will be premiering at BIFAN: Japanese Horror by Kan Yamamoto Damned meme and Nicoa Korea-Taiwan co-production set in a re-imagined future Seoul featuring Tiffany Young of the K-pop group Girls’ Generation. Elsewhere, Finnish director Hanna Bergholm Nightburn – A popular post-partum body horror thriller – reunites rising actress Siddi Harla with Rupert Grint, and Damian McCarthy returns with… to rulean Irish folk horror film that follows Strangeness (2024), a previous hit for BIFAN.

Paul Urquijo is also competing night (jawa)derived from the Basque witchcraft legend and the legend of Leongorin’s avid Zsza zaturnaa Filipino animated musical based on a comedy about a gay hairdresser who turns into a superhero.