Asian Fim Festival Barcelona (AFFBCN) is the leading Asian film festival in Spain, and each year presents around 25 screenings from XNUMX Asian countries. Cinemes Girona, CaixaForum, and Filmoteca de Catalunya are the main venues for this event specializing in the best of Asian cinema, which takes place in Barcelona at the end of October.
The festival offers several film itineraries through the following sections: Official, Official Panorama, Discoveries, Netpac, and Special, all in competition. The festival also presents a selection of the Asian Film Awards (AFA), awarded annually by the Asian Film Awards Academy based in Hong Kong, and finally, the Retrospective section, which is usually dedicated to an Asian filmmaker. In 2019, AFFBCN presented as a novelty a preview of its programming with the OFF Festival.
AFFBCN It's a festival that brings together the best films from the Asian continent while facilitating public access to productions from this part of the world, as well as providing a meeting place for industry professionals and film professionals. Each year, the festival not only hosts its events in Barcelona, but also screens its films at other festivals and cities across Spain.
