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As of December 7, Casa Asia will present 10 titles covering a vast geography through which we can move freely through the moving image. The stories told unite cultures and peoples, consolidating their identity respectively. The itinerary begins in Bangladesh and is replicated in China, Japan, Iran, Korea, India, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. It has been conceived in this way so that the spectator has the option of reconstructing the mosaic of scenes that this cinema offers us.
All the films that will be screened have been made between 2022 and 2024, therefore, we are talking about recent cinema that puts us in contact with a remote reality, but at the same time very close and very current. The program starts with The Wrestler of Bangladeshi Iqbal Hossain, continuing with Abdullah Oripov by Uzbek director Erkinov Muzaffarkhon, Mithya from the director Indian Sumanth Bhat, Unhappy Groom by Uzbek director Khusnora Ruzmetova, Woman by Chinese director Wang Chao, Following The Sound by Japanese director Kyoshi Sugita, Wind Of Change by Iranian director Abbas Rafei, Toxic Parents by Korean director Ryohei Yoshino, Our Home by Indian director Remi Meitei and God's Gift by Kyrgyz director Asher Zhuraeva.
Programme
The Wrestler (Bangladesh)
Saturday, December 7, 2024, at 19.00:XNUMX p.m.The Wrestler
Iqbal Hossain | Bangladesh | 2023 | 92′ | VOSC | Drama
The film takes a gradual and intimate look at the regional struggle in Bangladesh (Boli Khela) to portray the confrontation between its main characters. Moju (Nasir Uddin Khan) is an elderly fisherman who, unable to sell enough fish, decides to challenge the local champion, Dofor (AKM Itmam), to the delight of the community. His son and daughter-in-law fearfully contemplate the fateful outcome of the fight and try to prevent it from taking place. The Boli Khela fight requires discipline and stillness, and its development is slow and calm. Throughout the film, we are no longer passive spectators. This atmosphere makes the Bangladeshi film an excellent psychological thriller.
Abdulla Oripov (Uzbekistan)
Saturday, December 14, 2024, at 19.00:XNUMX p.m.Abdulla Oripov
Erkinov Muzaffarkhon | 2023 | 109' | VOSE | Drama
The film tells the story of the life of renowned poet Abdulla Oripov, who is considered both a phenomenon of 20th-century Uzbek poetry and a national hero. Oripov wrote and lived according to his heart and endured the political games of the old regime throughout his life, fighting the system with his poems and odes. The film portrays the suffering of the Uzbek intelligentsia throughout the 20th century until the country's independence. Finally, it makes amends for the poet's death in exile, returning him to his people one last time through the screen.
Mithya (India)
Saturday, December 21, 2024, at 19.00:XNUMX p.m.Mithya
Sumanth Bhat 2023 | 98' | VOSE | Drama
Mithya is the name of Mithun, an eleven-year-old boy from Mumbai, who is trying to come to terms with the sudden loss of his parents. Things around him are getting bleaker as his relatives fight over his custody, while questions about the nature of his father's death remain unanswered. These events fill the pre-teen with new and complex emotions as he searches for solid ground. Can new beginnings be forged, or is it all just a search for something already lost?
Unhappy Groom (Uzbekistan)
Saturday, January 11, 2025, at 19.00:XNUMX p.m.Unhappy Groom
Khusnora Rozmatova | 2023 | 102'| VOSE | Drama
The film explores Turkestan’s past through the history of Uzbekistan at the dawn of the 20th century, during the rule of the Russian Empire. The film highlights the contrast between ancient religious thought and the governmental incompetence of imperialist regimes. Amidst these tensions, two lovers must face the difficulties of a life marked by social conventions, heresies and ambiguous traditions. In parallel, the drama of Salih, a salaried actor, is affected by his inability to meet the ambitious demands of Rahima’s family and be able to marry her. This narrative strikingly reflects the parallelism with Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, where despite the lovers’ attempts to stay away from social scrutiny, they cannot avoid their toxicity.
A Woman (China)
Saturday, January 18, 2025, at 19.00:XNUMX p.m.Woman
Wang Chao | China | 2022 | 110′ | VOSE | Drama
Based on the autobiographical novel Dream by writer Zhang Xiu Zhen, the protagonist of this film works in a factory and, in her free time, she devotes herself to her family, but, when she can, she tries to write. The action takes place in the middle of the Cultural Revolution, between the sixties and early eighties of the twentieth century. In her personal and family life, she suffers daily abuse from her partner, whom she is supporting and with whom she has already had more children than she could have.
Following The Sound (Japan)
Saturday, January 25, 2025, at 19.00:XNUMX p.m.Following The Sound
Kyoshi Sugita | Japan | 2023 | 84′ | VOSE | Drama
One day, Haru, who works as a clerk in a bookstore, meets Takeshi, whom she met a few years ago when he stopped her from jumping in front of a train. Takeshi offers her a job. A day later, Haru worries about Yukiko, who is sitting on a bench in front of the station, and talks to her. This leads them to go on a little trip together. Haru is carrying a tape recorder that her mother left her as an inheritance. Circumstances cause Haru to once again face feelings of guilt and remorse for not having been able to help her prevent the disease from ending her life.
Wind of Change (Iran)
Saturday, February 1, 2025, at 19.00:XNUMX p.m.Wind of Change
Abbas Rafei | Iran | 2023 | 86′ | VOSE | Drama
Before she can process the news of her teenage daughter's misbehavior at school, Sara (Narges Mohmmadi) must deal with a larger concern in the form of her husband's disappearance. Sometime during the night, after a routine argument, he up and left, leaving behind a mystery for Sara to solve. Together with one of the neighbors, she sets out to find him. However, Sarah's dependence on her husband for survival soon becomes apparent. The film mixes suspense with social commentary as Sarah continues to search for her husband and struggles to reclaim her own and her daughter's independence.
Toxic Parents (South Korea)
Saturday, February 8, 2025, at 19.00:XNUMX p.m.Toxic Parents
Ryohei Yoshino | Korea | 2023 | 104' | VOSE | Drama
Yoo-ri seems like an exemplary student from a wealthy family, but she suddenly commits suicide. The detectives suspect it was suicide, but her mother Hye-young believes it was a murder committed by Yoo-ri, a classmate, and Gi-beom, her teacher. No matter how much the detectives investigate, the statements of these three people keep contradicting each other. The only clue they uncover is that Hye-Young made her daughter suffer. While the mother thinks that everything she did was for the good of Yoo-ri, will she be able to reveal the truth about her death?
Our Home (India)
Saturday, February 15, 2025, at 19.00:XNUMX p.m.Our Home
Romi Meitei | India | 2022 | 110′ | VOSE | Drama
Belonging to an isolated fishing community on Loktak Lake, Chaoren makes the best use of his existence by excelling in school. When the canoe he uses every day to attend school has to be sold due to his father's illness, his spirit is not dampened. He overcomes the long distance from his floating hut to his school by swimming. But when the government issues an eviction notice demanding Chaoren's family leave their home, his dreams are left with the anguish of a displaced person.
God's Gift (Kyrgyzstan)
Saturday, February 22, 2025, at 19.00:XNUMX p.m.God's Gift
Asel Zhuraeva | Kyrgyzstan | 2023 | 75′ | VOSE | Comedy
An elderly couple with health problems and no children live in a village, where hardly anything happens to upset them, until strangers abandon a six-month-old baby at the door of their house. At first they want to hand him over to the authorities, but having heard that young children can be sold for trafficking in their organs, they decide to keep him. Caring for a baby changes the course of their lives, finding an important reason to continue living.
18/01/2025
From December 7, 2024 to February 22, 2025
Every Saturday at 19.00:XNUMX p.m.
Cinemas Girona
Carrer de Girona, 175
Barcelona
Entry price: € 5,50
Price for subscribers and members of the Girona Cinemas: €4
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