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

This year, the festival's programming exceeds a hundred films from critical geographies that challenge the globalization of markets and prevail by defending their idiosyncrasy. The AFFBCN celebrates its seventh edition with productions coming from 25 countries from Central Asia to Southeast Asia and Oceania. In this edition, the viewer will be able to take a journey through the 131 feature films, 25 shorts and more than 200 screenings from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, to Iran, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, Bhutan, China, Hong Kong, Macau , Mongolia, Korea, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, Philippines, Laos, Indonesia and Vietnam, to Australia and New Zealand. The festival proposes several itineraries through a vast relationship of images that cinema makes us explore between countries that share borders within the same area or region of the continent. As usual, the AFFBCN programming is distributed in the following sections: Official, Official Panorama, Discoveries, Netpac and Special, all in competition. For the second time in a row, the festival hosts a selection of the Asian Film Awards Academy 2019, awarded annually to the best Asian cinema by the Asian Film Awards Academy based in Hong Kong. In this section, the nine award-winning titles among the best productions of this last year will be screened. Finally, the Retrospective section dedicated to Yasujiro Ozu that we will carry out in collaboration with Filmoteca de Catalunya and the Japan Foundation. The programming, 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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