From the 24th of May the tickets will be put on sale of the new contest of Asian cinema of Barcelona: Casa Asia Film Week. The festival will be held between the 6th and the 8th of June at Casa Asia Headquarters (with free activities and screenings) and between the 9th and 12th at Girona Cinemas, and will present a varied cinematographic programme, with a total of 30 films, 11 of which compete at the official section.
Likewise, the lovers of the seventh art will find films that go from comedy to drama, going through science fiction, martial arts or Bollywood films. The films, mostly unknown and of recent production, are made by new and acknowledged directors, such as the case of the Hong Kong film-maker Ann Hui, who has been devoted a retrospective at this first edition.
The cinematography of Hong Kong will have a highlighted role at this first edition, thanks to the collaboration of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Brussels. Two of the best Hong Kong productions of this year will serve to open and close the contest: the 9th of June, Reign of Assassin by John Woo and Chow-bin Su for the opening, and the 12th of June, The Stool Pigeon by Dante Lam, for the closing.
The ticket sale is limited to the 26 films that will be screened at the Girona Cinemas and at the three sections programmed: «Official Section» —where 11 Asian films of recent production will compete—, «Panorama» —with a selection of 6 films of the last two years— and «Retrospective», devoted to the director Ann Hui and made up of five of his best works. The tickets fo the two special sessions are also put on sale and are unknown in the big screen: the superproduction Space Battleship Yamato by the film-maker Takashi Yamakazi, granted by the distributor Mediatres Estudio and in tribute to Japan, and the preview of the Chinese film Confucio, interpreted by Chow Yun-Fat.
On the other hand, Portal Asia (between the 6th and the 8th of June at Casa Asia), will combine the screening of four films (among which, four Spanish documentaries made in Asia) with presentations, debates and lectures about cinema from this part of the world.
This week of Asian cinema is organised by Casa Asia and includes the programme of Ángel Sala and Mike Hostench of the Sitges Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya, as well as the general coordination by Gloria Fernández and Enrique Garcelán of CineAsia. The contest is directed by Menene Gras Balaguer, responsible for the department of Culture and Exhibitions of Casa Asia.
The new film festival specialised in Asia would like to turn into an important cultural event addressed to spread the best cinematography produced in the Asian continent. This way, the festival takes the baton of the famous BAFF festival, which announced the closing of its doors in 2010. Casa Asia Film Week, as a festival specialised in Asian cinema, unique in the city of Barcelona, aims to become one of the best contests about this area of the world in Europe and in a meeting point with other festivals that have a clear Asian accent such as Cannes, Venice, San Sebastián, Berlinale, Locarno, Udine Far East Film Festival, Rotterdam, Cines del Sur de Granada, Las Palmas, SEMINCI and the Sitges Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya.
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Programme of the Casa Asia Film Week
Download the programme of the Casa Asia Film Week (9th to the 12th of June)
Download the programme of Portal Asia (6th to the 8th of June)
OFICIAL SECTION FILMS
HELLO STRANGER
Dir: Banjong Pisanthanakun. Con Chantavit Dhanasevi, Nuengthida Sophon, Chantawich Tanasewi. Thailand-South Corea. 2010. Comedy. Original version with spanish subtitles. 13O min.
Session: Sunday 12, 16.00 h (sala 1)
PINOY SUNDAY
Dir: Wi Ding Ho. Con Bayani Agbayani, Epy Quezon, Nor Domingo, Dave Ronald Chang, Meryll Soriano, Alessandra de Rossi. Philippines – Taiwan. 2010. Comedy. Original version with spanish subtitles. 84 min
Session: Friday 10, 16.00 h (sala 1)/ Saturday 11, 16.00 h (sala 3)
THE JOURNALS OF MUSAN
Dir: Park Jung-bum. Con Park Jung-bum, Jin Yong-uk, Kang Eun-jin, Park Young-Deok. South Corea. 2010. Drama. Original version with spanish subtitles. 127 min
Session: Friday 10, 17.45 h (sala 1) / Saturday 11, 16.00 h (sala 2)
AFTERSHOCK
Dir: Feng Xiaogang. Con Fan Xu, Zhang Jingchu, Li Chen, Zhang Zi-feng, Zhang Jiajun, Lu Yi. China. 2010. Drama. Original version with spanish subtitles. 135 min
Session: Friday 10, 20.15 h (sala 1)/ Saturday 11, 20.15 h (sala 3)
A BETTER TOMORROW
Dir: Song Hae-sung. Con Ju Jin-mo, Song Seung-heon, Kim Kang-woo, Jo Han Sun, Lee Kyeong-yeong, Kim Ji-yeong. South Corea. 2010. Acción/Drama. Original version with spanish subtitles. 124 min
Session: Saturday 11, 22.45 h (sala 3) / Saturday 11 (marathon, sala 1)
BUDDHA MOUNTAIN
Dir: Li Yu. Con Li Fang, Fang Bingbing, Sylvia Chang, Zhenjiang Bao. China. 2011. Action/Drama. Original version with spanish subtitles. 125 min
Session: Saturday 11, 16.00 h (sala 1) / Sunday 12, 18.30 h (sala 3)
BRUCE LEE MY BROTHER
Dir: Manfred Wong, Raymond Yip. Con Tony Leung, Christy Chung, Jin Auyeung, Aarif Lee, Michelle Ye. Hong Kong/China. 2010. Action/Drama. Original version with spanish subtitles. 129 min
Session: Saturday 11, 18.00 h (sala 1) / Sunday 12, 16 h (sala 3)
CONFESSIONS
Dir: Tetsuya Nakashima. Con Takako Matsu, Yoshino Kimura, Masaki Okada, Yukito Nishii, Kaoru Fujiwara, Hirofumi Arai. Japan. 2010. Drama. Original version with spanish subtitles. 106 min
Session: Saturday 11, 20.30 h (sala 1)
EX
Dir: Heiward Mak. Con Gillian Chung, William Chan Wai-Ting, Michelle Wai, Lawrence Chou, Chapman To, Jacky Heung. Hong Kong. 2010. Romantic comedy. Original version with spanish subtitles. 95 min
Session: Thursday 9, 16.00 h (sala 1) / Friday 10, 16.00 h (sala 3)
DON’T GO BREAKING MY HEART
Dir: Johnnie To. Con Louis Koo, Gao Yuanyuan, Daniel Wu, Larisa Bakurova, Lam Suet. Hong Kong. 2010. Romantic comedy. Original version with spanish subtitles. 115 min
Session: Sunday 12, 18.15 (sala 1) y 22.45 h (sala 3)
GUZAARISH
Dir: Sanjay Leela Bhansali. Con Hrithik Roshan, Aishwarya Raí, Shernaz Patel, Devyani Dutta, Aditya Roy Kapoor, Nafisa Ali. India. 2010. Musical/Romantic drama. Original version with spanish subtitles. 126 min.
Session: jueves 9, 22.30 h (sala 3) / viernes 10, 18.00 h (sala 2)
Ticket sale
Points of sale:
▪ ServiCaixa (cash points and www.servicaixa.com), 24 hours.
▪ Ticket office of Girona Cinemas. Timetable:
From Mondays to Fridays: From 5pm to 10pm
Saturdays* and Sundays: From 4pm to 10pm
* Ticket sale for the marathon of Asian cinema: From 3.30pm to 0.45am
Price
▪ General admission: 7 Euros.
▪ Admission for suscribers of La Vanguardia, Club TR3SC, Xarxa de Biblioteques de Barcelona, Carnet Jove, Carnet Mayores de 65 años, members of ClubCasaAsia, Abacus and Club Cinemes Girona: 6 Euros*.
▪ Opening and closing: 10 Euros
▪ Marathon: 12 Euros
* Discount only at the ticket office.
Social media
Follow all the information of the CAFW at social media:
Twitter of Casa Asia and through the hashtag #asiafilm
We draw lots for double tickets at the website of Casa Asia of Facebook
Information for the media
Call for the Press Conference: The Press Conference of the presentation of the programme of the Casa Asia Film Week will take place at the Samarcanda Hall of Casa Asia, on Monday 30th of May, at 12am. During the press conference, a promotion video of the festival will be screened.
Contact:
Josep Casaus, Estela Morón and Anna Vázquez
T: 93 368 03 27/ 48 90 / 48 80
M: [email protected]
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