Busan 2025: The Awards

Chengdu Lu Films

VERDICT: In ‘Gloaming in Luomu’, Korean-Chinese filmmaker Zhang Lu offers his most radical reworking of his theme of searching for a long-vanished soulmate, in a film that unfolds like a delirious dream.

September 26th, 2025

BEST FILM
Gloaming in Luomu
Directed by Zhang Lu (China)

BEST DIRECTOR
Shu Qi
for Girl (Taiwan)

SPECIAL JURY AWARD
Funky Freaky Freaks
Directed by Han Chang-lok (Korea)

BEST ACTOR
Lee Jiwon
for En Rout To (Korea)

Ex-aequo
Kitamura Takumi, Ayano Go, Hayashi Yuta
for Baka’s Identity (Japan)

ARTISTIC CONTRIBUTION AWARD
Liu Qiang and Tu Nan
for Production Design of Resurrection (China)

NEW CURRENTS AWARD
En Route To
Directed by Yoo Jaein (Korea)

BIFF MECENAT AWARD (KOREA)
Raining Dust
Directed by Ju Romi, Kim Taeil (Korea)

BIFF MECENAT AWARD (ASIA)
Singing Wings
Directed by Hemen Khaledi (Iran/Kurdistan)

BIFF MECENAT AWARD (SPECIAL MENTION)
Relay Race
Directed by Ko Hyoju (Korea)

SONJE AWARD (KOREA)
It Sounds Louder on Rainy Days
Directed by Kim Sang-yun (Korea)

SONJE AWARD (ASIA)
Delay
Directed by Wang Han-xuan (China)

SONJE AWARD (SPECIAL MENTION)
Interface
Directed by Kawazoe Aya (Japan)