Asian Film Festival. Barcelona, ​​2017. Barcelona | 2 – 12 November 2017.

The Asian Film Festival. Barcelona 2017 was proposed from a cultural turn in geography and the emphasis that critical geography places on the construction of imaginaries directly related to the territory, based on the symbiosis between nation and narrative. Asian cinema does not form a uniform set of paradigms nor does it present a single identity panorama, as demonstrated by the different stories that belong to the countries represented in the festival, from Central Asia, Southeast Asia and even Asia Pacific. This large area includes the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan; Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, China, Mongolia, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Cambodia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand. Within the more than 12.000 km that separate the ends of this great extension from east to west, several geographical and cultural borders of more than twenty countries are crossed, which claim a local identity in defense of difference and against cultural globalization. that characterizes the world order. The Festival was divided into six sections: the Official Section, the Panorama Section, the Netpac Section - the three in competition -, the Discoveries Section, the Special Section, and the Section "Retrospective”, dedicated to the filmmaker Hsiao Hsien-Hou; and also includes a program of short films.

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