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The Busan International Film Festival has announced the 30 projects selected for this year's Asian Project Market (APM). Among them are several projects by Asian filmmakers whose previous films have been selected for the Korean festival.
The line-up includes Dhakar Nagin, by Bangladeshi filmmaker Iqbal H. Chowdhury, who won Busan’s New Currents Award last year for The Wrestler. Indonesia’s Wregas Bhanuteja also returns with Levitating, after his film Photocopier screened at New Currents in 2021.
Other returning films include Japanese filmmaker Sotoyama Bunji with Life Redo List, after Soiree screened at the festival in 2020, and Asian Film Academy veteran Aigerim Satybaldy, a Khazakh filmmaker who is producing Leg by Uzbek filmmaker Shokir Kholikov; Sri Lankan filmmaker Ilagno Ram with Rabbit Hole; and Myanmar filmmaker Lin Htet Aung with Making A Sea.
