June 22 – 30, 2018

Casa Asia collaborates once again with the International Display of Gay and Lesbian Cinema of Barcelona FIRE!! screening the series “East of Eden.” With these four titles displaying the current panorama of Asian films, they join in the need to show the problems of LGTB communities that are often hidden or are deliberately ignored.

The series begins in Pakistan with Unveiled (2016), a story about Maria Toorpakai and her passion for the sport that leads her to challenge her own religious beliefs in order to be a professional squash player. We travel to India with the beautiful White Nights (2015), a lesbian adaptation of the novel by the same name by Fyodor Dostoevsky. We journey on to Thailand to understand that love begins with two people, but family can be greater than two, with the magnificent film Fathers (2017). Finally, the series finishes with Dad Is Pretty (2017) that tells of the degree of integration of transsexual women in today’s society. It is a cinematic experience that uses reality as its model. Although it is not always visible, it constitutes our immediate environment, forming part of social life in a global and simultaneously local world, like the one in which we live.

Program:

Unveiled | Pakistan | Dir. Erin Heidenreich | 2016 | 76’ | VOSE

Sisak | India | Dir. Faraz Arif Ansari | 2017 | 15’ | VOSE

White Nights | India | Razi Muhammed | 2015 | 131’ | VOSE

Fathers | Thailand | Dir. Palatpol Mingpornpichit | 2017 | 95’ | VOSE

Dad is pretty | Korea | Dir. Kim Seung-Hyeob | 2017 | 92’ | VOSE

June 13- June 26, 2018

The programming of Casa Asia for PHotoESPAÑA 2018 on the one hand addresses the state of photography in the Philippines and the outcomes of its expansion through several case studies with the participation of a special guest, Briccio Santos, whose photographic and cinematographic work will be shown during sessions detailed below. On the other hand, it will show photography from Japan, through the recovery of a mythical figure, like the one represented by the photographer Takuma Nakahira (1938-2015).

Casa Asia will host this presentation with the inclusion of Filipino photographer and film director Briccio Santos, president of the FILM ASEAN foundation. Furthermore, this will be part of the round table on the here and now of photography in the Philippines, in the context of Southeast Asia and Asia Pacific, along with Alejandro Castellote, Manuel Asín and Menene Gras Balaguer (Casa Asia Director of Culture and Exhibitions). In turn, during a special session Briccio Santos will present his work, which for years has explored what unites and separates photography and moving image. Finally, four titles of his cinematographic work made between 1982 and 2017 will be shown at Círculo de Bellas Artes.

Program:

When Heaven Wept | Philippines | 2017 | 85’ | VOSI

Shadows of September | Philippines | 2006 | VOSI

Damortis | Philippines | 1984 | VOSI

Ala verde, ala pobre | Philippines | 2005 | VOSI

June 2 – July 14, 2018

Casa Asia focuses once again on bringing some of the most recent titles of Central Asian film to the public. These films are still unknown by most of the public. This series discovers the narratives of Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, through which we experience worlds we would not get to know any other way.

It should be noted that in the last edition of the Asian Film Festival Barcelona (November 2017), the Best Photography Award was awarded to Districts in the Panorama Section, and the Cathay Pacific Award for Best Director went to Zhapar Uulu and Baky Mukul for A Father’s Will.

Program:

TASFIYA Dir. Sharofat M. Arabova| Tajikistan | 2015 | 73’| Drama

DISTRICTS Dir. Akan Satayev| Kazakhstan |2016 | 90’| Drama

TARAZ Dir. Nurtas Adambay | Kazakhstan | 2016 | 82’ | Drama

A FATHER’S WILL Dir. Baky Mukul, D. Z. Uulu | Kyrgyzstan | 2016 | 120’ | Drama

RETOURNÉE Dir. Sabit Kurmanbekov | Kazakhstan | 2017 | 95’ | Drama

Place: Cinemes Girona – c/ Girona, 175 Barcelona

Entrance: General: 3,5 euros | Subscribers and partners of Cinemes Girona: 2 euros

Organized by: Casa Asia, Cinemes Girona, Embassy of Kazakhstan in Spain, Kazakh Film and Aitysh Film

from April 21st to May 26th

Casa Asia turns once again to approach some recent and highlighted titles of Mongolian cinema to our public. Mongolia’s cinematography is beginning to consolidate itself within the Asian panorama.

This is the first time Casa Asia devotes a film programme exclusively to this country. Four films made between 2016 and 2017 have been chosen and they were at the latest edition of Asian Film festival Barcelona.

The Mongolian Film Series is an opportunity to enter a cinematographic world typically difficult to access that commercial distribution tends to disregard. Through rural and urban cinema we view a fascinating culture where the coexistence of local tradition and urbanization is a part of people’s everyday lives and is transforming their society.

Program:

WHITE BLESSING, Dir. Sengedorj Janchivdorj| 2016 | 104’ | Drama | VOSE

HERS, Dir: Galbayar Dashkhuu | 2017 | 83’| Drama | VOSE

WINTER STORY, Dir: Tulga Bayarkhuu | 2017 | 93’| Drama | VOSE

GANGSTER GIRLS, Dir: Zolbayar Tsagaantogtokh | 2017 | 103’| Comedia | VOSE

Location: Cinemes Girona · c/ Girona, 175, Barcelona

Entrance: Price: 3,5€ |Associates and partners of Cinemes Girona: 2€

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from March 24th to July 7th

Casa Asia, in collaboration with Barcelona County Council, for the second year in a row, presents the project Asian Films, through which there is an approach to Asian author cinema to towns of the province of Barcelona, films that are not usually available in commercial routes.

A project through which we try to approach the cultures of this large continent to Catalan population, in order to spread cinematographic culture of the Asian continent, at the same time it promotes the development of activities that encourage a social approach to interculturality. Knowing that there are commonly shared narrations and individual narrations, as well as group and personal experiences that could be saved by their transmission, the approach to other cultures finds in cinema an exception. In fact, these narratives -in long and short stories- communicate us through different media such as literature, cinema, plastic and visual arts, stage arts and witnesses that are gathered of authors, artists and film makers, the works discover local worlds in a global knowledge system. However, films are a great media for this purpose, because movement image is a universal language.

Program:

MINA’S OPTION | Dir: Kamal Tabrizi | Irán| 2015 | 100’ | Drama

HERS | Dir. Galbayar Dashkhuu | Mongolia | 2017 | 83’ | Drama

A FATHER’S WILL | Dir. Bakyt Mukul, Dastan Zhapar Uulu | Kirguistán | 2016 | 112’ | Drama

Ciclo de cine: Sábado 24 de marzo, 19.00h y 22.00h y domingo 25 de marzo, 19.00 h. Jueves 24 de mayo y jueves 7 de junio a las 21.00h

Location: Espai Maragall · Paseig de Joan Maragall, 11, Gavà

Sala Mozart · c/ Església, 91 , Calella, Barcelona

Free entrance.

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