The Orphanage opens today the 8th edition of the Asian Film Festival Barcelona

From this day to the 8th of November, Barcelona highlights the best Asian cinema at the moment. The Afghan film The Orphanage, by the Afghan director Shahrbanco Sadat, will open the festival this evening (8 p.m.) at CaixaForum’s Auditorium (Av. de Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia 6-8).

The event, which is being held for the first time in a hybrid format (online and in person), this year advocates safe culture by including 118 feature films from 25 Asia-Pacific region countries in the programme, which will be screened at Cinemas Girona, CaixaForum, Filmoteca de Catalunya and CineBaix (Sant Feliu de Llobregat).

The festival will also be partially covered online, through the Filmin platform, where last July the Casa Asia’s Channel was inaugurated, which will host around 40 titles to be viewed gradually throughout the event.