Asian Film Festival Barcelona, 2019. Barcelona | October 30 - November 10, 2019.

This year, the festival's program features over one hundred films from critical geographies that challenge the globalization of markets and assert themselves by defending their idiosyncrasies. AFFBCN celebrates its seventh edition with productions from 25 countries ranging from Central Asia to Southeast Asia and Oceania. In this edition, viewers can embark on a journey through 131 feature films, 25 short films and more than 200 screenings from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, Bhutan, China, Hong Kong, Macau, Mongolia, Korea, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Laos, Indonesia and Vietnam, as well as Australia and New Zealand. The festival proposes several itineraries through a vast relationship of images that cinema allows us to explore between countries that share borders within the same area or region of the continent. As usual, the program of AFFBCN It is divided into the following sections: Official, Official Panorama, Discoveries, Netpac, and Special, all in competition. For the second consecutive time, the festival hosts a selection of the 2019 Asian Film Awards Academy, awarded annually to the best Asian cinema by the Hong Kong-based Asian Film Awards Academy. This section will screen the nine award-winning titles among the best productions of this past year. Finally, the Retrospective section dedicated to Yasujiro Ozu, which we will organize in collaboration with Filmoteca de Catalunya and the Japan Foundation. The program, however, is expanded with the OFF-Festival, with a monograph on Iranian cinema, a program of twenty-five short films, five documentaries, and an introduction to the festival throughout the month of October.

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