Asian Film Festival 2024

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The Asian Film Festival Barcelona is back for its 12th edition with a program that includes more than a hundred films from over 20 countries in Asia and the Asia Pacific region, in which historical narrative, gender issues and drama in all its dimensions are explored through the art of cinema.

The festival opens at Sala Phenomena Experience with Park Young-ju's action-comedy-drama Citizen of a Kind (Korea 2024), a gripping tale based on a true story, focusing on the extraordinary journey of a single mother who takes on voice-phishing scammers; and closes at Cinemes Girona with Nick Cheuk's touching drama Time Still Turns the Pages (Hong Kong, 2023) which tells the story of a schoolteacher who re-lives painful childhood memories after discovering concerning information about an at-risk student. Alongside a packed agenda of world-class films you'll find parallel programing that includes a course dedicated to Asian cinema, a series of round tables and presentations and discussions with guest directors.

Asian cinema represents the geographical, political, economic and cultural diversity of an unequal continent. The program includes films originating from critical geographies that defy market globalization. The festival brings films from different cultures and ethnicities from across Central Asia, South-East Asia and Pacific Asia; allowing audiences to go on a journey from Kazakhstan, to Iran, onto Mongolia, the Philippines all the way to New Zealand. Casa Asia continues with its commitment to create for Barcelona a festival that compiles the best films from the Asian continent, as well as to promote a meeting point for professionals of the industry.

Films will be screened at Filmoteca de Catalunya, Cinemas Girona, Phenomena Experience, CaixaForum and Zumzeig.

October Film Festivals in and around Barcelona

October’s calendar is packed with an impressive list of film festivals in and around the city. Check out our article October Film Festivals in and around Barcelona where you'll find gritty investigative documentaries, hair-raising fantasy and horror flicks and everything in between!

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