Asian Cinema Fund 2025: Funding News

Asian Cinema Fund (ACF), a support programme of South Korea’s Busan International Film Festival, has awarded funding to 14 Asian projects for 2025.
 
ACF provides support to filmmakers from Korea and the wider Asia region across script development, post-production and documentary filmmaking. Projects selected for the Script Development Fund receive a $7,250 (KRW10m) grant and an official invitation to Busan’s Asian Project Market (APM, September 20-23).
 
Films selected for the Post-Production Fund will receive their world premieres at this year’s Busan International Film Festival (September 17-26). The Asian Network of Documentary (AND) Fund, which supports feature-length documentaries, has selected seven projects which will be featured in the AND Talk & Share sessions at Busan’s Asian Contents and Film Market (ACFM, September 20-23).

ASIAN CINEMA FUND 2025:

SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT FUND:
 [3 Asian Projects]
 
Black Star Angel, dir: Christine Haroutounian (Armenia)
 
Heaven Help Us!, dir: Eve Baswel (Philippines)
 
New Life, dir: Li Yingtong* (China)
 
*Graduate of the 2024 CHANEL X BIFF Asia Film Academy
 
POST-PRODUCTION FUND:
 [2 Korean Projects, 2 Asian Projects]
 
Coming Of Age, dir: Jeong Seung-o  (Korea)
 
If On A Winter's Night, dir: Sanju Surendran (India)
 
The Observer's Journal, dir: Lim Junghwan (Korea)
 
The River That Holds Our Hands, dir: Chen Jianhang (Hong Kong, Vietnam)
 
 
ASIAN NETWORK OF DOCUMENTARY (AND) FUND:
 [4 Korean Projects, 3 Asian Projects]
 
Kampuchea, dir: Neary Adeline Hay (Cambodia, France)
 
Oma, dir: Armin Septiexan (Indonesia, Philippines, France, Netherlands)
 
Our Complex, dir: Cho Hanna (Korea)
 
Sea, Star, Woman, dir: Yim Jeunghae (Korea, France)
 
Sprouted Potato Lives On, dir: Yang Dayeon (Korea)
 
Untitled (Working Title), dir: Min Min Hein (Myanmar)
 
Weathering Architect, dir: Kwon Sunhyeon (Korea)