Overview

• The lineup includes Difficult Daughters by Soni Razdan, produced by Alia Bhatt, Shaheen Bhatt and Alan McAlex, alongside The Last Of Them Plagues from producer–actress Kani Kusruti and Payal Kapadia
• Female production leadership is prominent with high-profile Indian backers and three Taiwanese projects centered on women’s stories
• BIFF alumni return with new works such as Pradip Kurbah’s Moon, Biplob Sarkar’s LGBTQ+ drama The Magical Men and Lau Kok Rui’s Wake Me Up When the Mourning Ends
• Selections cover 15 countries with five Chinese-language films, three Japanese entries on labor and identity, and seven projects from emerging and mid-career Korean directors
• The Asian Project Market runs September 20–23 at BEXCO during the 20th Asian Contents & Film Market as a key co-production and financing hub