187 Are Tigers the New Trend? BIAF2025 Official Trailer Unveiled 2025-09-02 08:59
The 27th Bucheon International Animation Festival (BIAF2025) unveiled its official trailer on Tuesday, September 2.
This year’s trailer was directed by Anastasiia FALILEIEVA, winner of the Short Film Grand Prize at BIAF2024 with I Died in Irpin. Her acclaimed work went on to receive the Best Animated Short Award at the 2025 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival and has been submitted for consideration in the 2026 Academy Awards Short Animated Film category.
The trailer unfolds like a contemporary minhwa (Korean folk painting): sweeping mountains, valleys, and trees inhabited by pipe-smoking tigers whose smoke swirls into the sky. At the center shines a bright star.
When the star sneezes at the smoke and falls from the heavens, darkness shrouds the valley. The startled tigers gather under their leader, who rallies them to embark on a quest to restore the lost light. Carrying Korean paper lanterns, they set out—save for one mischievous tiger who tries to sneak along his pipe, only to be humorously reprimanded.
Their journey takes them through icy rivers, towering mountains, and endless fields of wind-swept grass. At last, the so-called “dummy” tiger hushes the leader and points to a faint glow on the ground—it is the missing star. Together, the tigers carry it to the summit of the highest peak. In a moment of redemption, the leader entrusts the once-foolish tiger with returning the star to the sky.
As it rises, the star explodes in radiant color, illuminating the night with the words: BIAF2025.
The 27th Bucheon International Animation Festival will be held in Bucheon, South Korea, from October 24 to 28, 2025.
This year’s trailer was directed by Anastasiia FALILEIEVA, winner of the Short Film Grand Prize at BIAF2024 with I Died in Irpin. Her acclaimed work went on to receive the Best Animated Short Award at the 2025 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival and has been submitted for consideration in the 2026 Academy Awards Short Animated Film category.
The trailer unfolds like a contemporary minhwa (Korean folk painting): sweeping mountains, valleys, and trees inhabited by pipe-smoking tigers whose smoke swirls into the sky. At the center shines a bright star.
When the star sneezes at the smoke and falls from the heavens, darkness shrouds the valley. The startled tigers gather under their leader, who rallies them to embark on a quest to restore the lost light. Carrying Korean paper lanterns, they set out—save for one mischievous tiger who tries to sneak along his pipe, only to be humorously reprimanded.
Their journey takes them through icy rivers, towering mountains, and endless fields of wind-swept grass. At last, the so-called “dummy” tiger hushes the leader and points to a faint glow on the ground—it is the missing star. Together, the tigers carry it to the summit of the highest peak. In a moment of redemption, the leader entrusts the once-foolish tiger with returning the star to the sky.
As it rises, the star explodes in radiant color, illuminating the night with the words: BIAF2025.
The 27th Bucheon International Animation Festival will be held in Bucheon, South Korea, from October 24 to 28, 2025.