Asian Film Festival Barcelona
The Asian Film Festival Barcelona celebrates its 12th edition
The Asian Film Festival Barcelona | AFFBCN, the Asian auteur film festival, reaches its twelfth edition this year and will be held from October 24 to November 3, 2024. The Festival maintains its hallmarks for another year, and will screen a hundred films representative of the experimental and independent cinema of the new Asian cinema, with the participation of filmographies from twenty countries in Asia and the Pacific.
AFFBCN 2024 will distribute its programming in five sections: Official, Official Panorama, Discoveries, NETPAC and Special, all of them in competition. The Phenomena room will host the inaugural film “Citizen of a Kind” by director Park Young-ju (Korea 2024), while the main bulk of films will be screened at the Cinemes Girona, including the one that will close this competition specialized in Asian cinema: “Time Still Turns the Pages” by director Nick Cheuk (Hong Kong, 2023). On the other hand, the FILMIN Platform and the BETEVÉ television channel will be the online headquarters.
For the director of the AFFBCN, Menene Gras Balaguer, “This year’s programming contains numerous surprises from the participating countries that will allow us to update our knowledge of the Asian film industry, subject to permanent change and innovation, and which we will continue to reveal.”
As new arrivals To add to the programming, this year the Festival incorporates a course dedicated to Asian cinema, a series of round tables, in addition to presentations and discussions with guest directors. And for the second time, a call has been launched aimed at directors, producers and film students, to present feature films and documentaries in the month of March that aspire to be part of the programming.
The AFFBCN 2024 will grant eighteen awards: for Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay in each of the competing sections: Official, Official Panorama, Discoveries, NETPAC, and Special, which will be awarded by their respective juries, composed of directors, film critics and writers, among others. For this twelfth edition, a new section, New Perspectives, is added, with its corresponding jury, the Young Jury, composed of film students, visual arts, and East Asian studies from national and international universities, which will award the prizes for Best Film, Best Director, and Best Screenplay, based on a selection of the Festival’s competition films.
The Festival has the support of the ICEC (Generalitat de Catalunya), ICUB (Barcelona City Council), HKETO (Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, Brussels), FICB (Fundació Institut Confuci de Barcelona), Embassy of Australia and Japan Foundation, among others.
Preview of the Asian Film Festival Barcelona showcasing highlights of its 12th edition, featuring scenes from independent Asian cinema and interviews with directors