The festival opens the call for the reception of films that could be part of the programming of the Asian Film Festival Barcelona, which will celebrate its twelfth edition from October 23 to November 3, 2024.
Bases for participation:
Categories: Fiction feature films and documentaries.
Competition sections: Official, Official Panorama, Discoveries, NETPAC and Special.
Awards: Best Film, Best Director, and Best Screenplay in each of the five sections of the festival.
Delivery deadline: from Friday, March 22, 2024 to Thursday, July 11, 2024.
Shipping of material: To the following emails [email protected] y [email protected] Film in digital format or through VIMEO or other similar platforms; film technical sheet, electronic press kit, still photographs, trailer (if available) and a brief biography of the director.
Selection of titles received: The festival programming committee will announce the selected titles to the corresponding person via email.
Conditions:
- The festival will only accept films produced between 2022 and 2024.
- The festival's geography extends from Central Asia to Southeast Asia and the Asia-Pacific region.
- All films must come with English subtitles for shortlisting.
- For translation into Spanish and/or Catalan and screening in cinemas, the preferred format is SRT or ASS.
- The formats for the screening of these films at the Festival will be requested after completing the selection: we will only accept digital DCP, H264 or Digital HD (MP4 or MOV).
THE FESTIVAL
The Asian Film Festival Barcelona | AFFBCN addresses a very wide geographical extension, ranging from Iran, Central Asia, a region that includes the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, to which are added Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka; Southeast Asia from China, Korea, Japan, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Cambodia and Vietnam; and Asia Pacific with Australia and New Zealand.
As in previous editions, the AFFBCN will present films from more than twenty countries, highlighting some cinematography as usual, but without ceasing to screen titles that come from other less recognized countries. One of the objectives of the festival is to explore this stranger or foreigner that cinema shows us, and to stimulate interest in discovery. Hence, in some cases, the programming aims to be rather inclusive, not so much with the intention of covering more titles each year, but rather to show not only those whose authors do not go unnoticed because they have their followers but also those that are less known or whose references force us to investigate their respective contextualization, discovery and conquest.
The festival arrives this fall with a program that wants to be as representative as possible of the most recent experimental and independent cinema from the Asian continent, without excluding productions that respond both to the interest of an audience familiar with cinematography from Asia, as well as those who want begin to know what a not-so-new cinema transmits to us, whose diversity responds preferably to the different narratives it exposes. The exoticism that in the West has usually been attributed to these productions has been replaced by the contribution that the latter have made and continue to make to culturally construct an identity inseparable from belonging to the territory.
The festival will bring together more than a hundred films that will be grouped into the five sections, Official, Official Panorama, Discoveries, NETPAC and Special, all in competition, in which the different titles that are selected will be strategically distributed. The corresponding juries are made up of those members designated for this purpose, directors, film critics and writers who agree to fulfill this function.
For more information: www.asianfilmfestival.barcelona
