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Eleventh edition of the festival specialized in cinema from the Asia-Pacific region organized by Casa Asia. The Asian Film Festival of Barcelona is a reference event that brings the best filmography of the Asian continent, facilitating the meeting between professionals of the sector and the film industry.

The AFFBCN projects on the screens productions of different cultures and ethnicities that come from Central Asia, with the participation of films from two former Soviet republics (Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan), Iran, Mongolia and Afghanistan; South Asia, represented by India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka; Southeast Asia, with the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam; East Asia, with China, Korea, Japan; and finally the Pacific, with Australia and New Zealand.

AFFBCN 2023: more than 100 films from 25 countries

Filmoteca de Catalunya, Cinemas Girona, Phenomena, CaixaForum and Zumzeig are this year's venues for in-person film screenings, and the FILMIN platform and Betevé for online sessions.

This year's AFFBCN presents a hundred films from more than 20 countries, including the opening and closing ceremonies, divided into five sections, all in competition: Official, Official Panorama, Discoveries, NETPAC and Special. Each section has its corresponding juries and fifteen prizes will be awarded: best film, best director and best screenplay for each of the competition sections.

China will play a special role this year, coinciding with the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Spain and China. We will be able to see about twenty films from that country at Cinemes Girona and Filmoteca de Catalunya.

According to Menene Gras Balaguer, director of the festival, "The eleventh edition of the Asian Film Festival Barcelona | AFFBCN wants to continue contributing to the rise of Asian cinema not only in international film festivals but also on the screens of our country. When we refer to Asian cinema we are thinking of the film industries of more than twenty countries that believe in film culture as an expression of a global and local fact".

Opening and closing

  • Yangzi's Confusion (2023), the debut feature by Chinese filmmaker Li Jue, who will be present at the festival, will be the opening film at Phenomena.
  • The Royal Hotel (2023) by Australian filmmaker Kitty Green will close the eleventh edition of AFFBCN 2023.

The most outstanding films

In addition to the opening and closing films, the following films stand out in this edition:

  • Evil Does Not Exist, Ryūsuke Hamaguchi (2023).
  • No Prior Appointment, Behrooz Shoaibi (2022)
  • Our Home, Romi Meitei (2022)
  • Perfect Days, Wim Wenders (2023)
  • The Point Men, Yim Soon-rye (2023)
  • Toxic Parents (독친), Kim Su-in (2023)
  • Wind of Change (Solouk), Abbas Rafei (2023)
  • Zere, Dauren Kamshibayev (2021)

Asian Film Festival Retrospective

This year's edition of the festival dedicates a retrospective to the renowned Chinese director Wang Chao, who will be in Barcelona coinciding with the screening of the 7 most relevant films of his career.

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