Guwahati, Sept 22: Acclaimed Khasi filmmaker Pradip Kurbah is representing Meghalaya at the prestigious Asian Project Market (APM) 2025, held alongside the 30th Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) in South Korea. His project, Moon, has been selected as one of 30 in-development films from across 15 countries, chosen from a record-breaking 455 submissions this year.

The Asian Project Market is Asia’s leading co-production and financing platform for filmmakers. Held every year as part of BIFF in Busan, South Korea, it brings together directors with films in development and connects them with international producers, financiers, distributors, and festival programmers. Out of hundreds of applications, only around 30 projects are selected each year, making it a highly competitive and prestigious process. Many films first introduced at APM have gone on to premiere at top global film festivals, including Cannes, Berlin, and Venice.

The 2025 Asian Project Market (APM), which started on September 20, will conclude on September 23 during the 20th edition of the Asian Contents & Film Market at BEXCO. Selected projects will be nominated under each sponsor category, with the winners to be disclosed at the APM Awards Ceremony on September 23.

Set in a Khasi town in the hills of Meghalaya, Moon explores themes of memory, guilt, and redemption. “All humans live with guilt, something we carry inside but rarely share,” Kurbah says. “I wanted to ask, if we speak of it, will it bring peace or more pain?”

The film is poetic in tone, rooted in the monsoon-soaked landscape of the Khasi Hills, with rain serving as a metaphor for cleansing and renewal. Drawing inspiration from Khasi oral traditions, Kurbah envisions a calm and immersive style where silence and memory speak as powerfully as words.

A self-taught filmmaker from Shillong, Kurbah has steadily built an international reputation. Earlier this year, his film The Elysian Field won Best Film and Best Director at the Moscow International Film Festival. In 2019, he also bagged the Jiseok Award at BIFF for Market, establishing him as one of India’s most compelling independent voices.

Moon is being produced under Kurbah Films in collaboration with Hello Meghalaya and Shiven Arts, with around 30% of its budget already secured. Kurbah and his team will seek international co-production partners to bring Khasi stories to a global stage.

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