The 10th Edition of Asian Film Festival Barcelona is here!

The Asian Film Festival Barcelona | AFFBCN, the Asian auteur film festival, in the year 2022, completes its tenth edition and will take place from the 26th of October to the 6th of November. The event specializing in Asian cinema remains faithful to its origins, in which it presents a program that includes more than a hundred films proceeding from around 25 countries in Asia and the Asia – Pacific region, in which historical narrative, gender issues, and drama in all its dimensions fill the cinematographic proposal of this edition with its content.

Cinemas Girona, Phenomena, CaixaForum and Zumzeig are this year’s venues for the in-person film screenings, while FILMIN will be the platform for the online sessions. One of the novelties this year, is that the cinema hall of the Phenomena will host the inaugural film of AFFBCN, although the principal venue of the festival will continue to be Cinemes Girona, where most of the screenings will take place. The Zumzeig cinema will also premiere as a venue for this year’s edition of the festival.

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Programme

OPENING & CLOSING FILMS

OFFICIAL SECTION

PANORAMA SECTION

DISCOVERIES

NETPAC

SPECIAL SECTION

CLOSING FILM

6th November at 20.00h

The Drover’s Wife: Legend of Molly Johnson

An adult woman tries to fight isolation and raise her children on the farm where she resides during her husband’s absence. In 1893, a pregnant Molly Johnson and her children struggle to survive in Australia’s harsh terrain.

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CLOSING FILM

6th November at 20.00h

The Drover’s Wife: Legend of Molly Johnson

An adult woman tries to fight isolation and raise her children on the farm where she resides during her husband’s absence. In 1893, a pregnant Molly Johnson and her children struggle to survive in Australia’s harsh terrain.

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Main Venues

FESTIVAL DIRECTOR’S LETTER

by Menene Gras

“The tenth edition of the AFFBCN arrives this fall with a program that aims to be as representative as possible of the most recent experimental and independent cinema on the Asian continent, without excluding productions that respond both to the interest of a public that knows films from Asia, as well as from those who want to begin to know what a not-so-new cinema transmits to us, whose diversity responds preferably to the different narratives it exposes.”

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FESTIVAL DIRECTOR’S LETTER

by Menene Gras

“The tenth edition of the AFFBCN arrives this fall with a program that aims to be as representative as possible of the most recent experimental and independent cinema on the Asian continent, without excluding productions that respond both to the interest of a public that knows films from Asia, as well as from those who want to begin to know what a not-so-new cinema transmits to us, whose diversity responds preferably to the different narratives it exposes.”

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Trailers

ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL

The Festival presents a total of 111 films, including the inaugurating and closing films, distributed over 5 sections, all of which are under competition.

HONG KONG FILMS

Retrospective of the Hong Kong films that have passed through the Asian Film Festival Barcelona until its tenth edition (2011-2022).

OPENING FILM

Sardar Udham is an historical drama produced by Shoojit Sircar, that follows the life of revolutionary Udham Singh, who witnessed the Jallianwala Bagh massacre on the 13th of April of 1919, where British troops wounded and killed over a thousand natives.

Director
Menene Gras Balaguer

General Coordination
Rodrigo Escamilla Sandoval

Programming and Production
Menene Gras Balaguer | Rodrigo Escamilla Sandoval | Priyanka Ragji

Film and Print Traffic and Jury and Guest Coordination
Priyanka Ragji

Asia Central Advisor
Sandra Mur Puyuelo

Assistants
María José Cabaleiro | Javier Callejas | Neus de Campos | Silvia Pascual | Alba Puigròs | Amarilis Rojas | Samin M. Syed | Mariam Tsulaia

Cinemes Girona Direction
Toni Espinosa

Technical Assistance and Logistics
Giulliana Burneo | Pol F. Amorós
Maria Àngels Amorós

Translation and Subtitles
36 caracteres | Esteban Andueza | Esther Arias | Adrian Caravaca Caparrós | Olga Miró | Victoria Morales | Sandra Mur Puyuelo | Mar Ortega | Laia Pedregosa | Ainhoa Pérez | Vanesa Plana | Marina Sala | Susana Tornero

Catalogue Design and Layout and Festival Website
Sömi Graphic Studio (www.somistudio.com)
www.asianfilmfestival.barcelona

Communication
Departament de Comunicació de Casa Asia: Josep Casaus, Marta Ballada, Oriol Gironès, Amaia Judge
La Costa Comunicació: Sandra Costa
CINEMES GIRONA: Maria Àngels Amorós

Resource Management
Adelaida Rodríguez | Jordi González

Festival Image
Pierre Gonnord, Koizumi (2003)

Festival Trailer
Oriol Gironès | Sara Pérez

To all of Casa Asia’s staff members

Cinemes Girona
Toni Espinosa
Maria Àngels Amorós
Giulliana Burneo
Pol F. Amorós

FILMIN
Joan Sala
Maite Robles
Isa Sequeros
Elodie Mellado
Ester Pericas
Alicia Garrido

Phenomena
Nacho Cerdá

CaixaForum
Cristina Smandia
Paula Pons

Zumzeig
Albert Triviño Masso

B The Travel Brand Experience
Laura Madrona

Ajuntament de Barcelona
ICUB
Direcció de Comunicació

Generalitat de Catalunya
ICEC
Departament de Cultura

Catalunya Film Festivals
Marta Lladó
Guim Bonaverntura
Mireia Girbau
Maria Pinell

Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (Brussels)
Grace Li
Carol Tsang
Melissa Pascale

The Hong Kong International Film Festival HKIFF
Alvin Tse

Create HK

Fundació Institut Confuci de Barcelona
Li Peihua
Zhou Minkang
Lídia Tubert

Australian Embassy in Spain

Japan Foundation
Morito Keiko
Alejandro Rodríguez

ImagineIndia Film Festival
Qazi Abdur Rahim

NETPAC
Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema

SÖMI Graphic Studio (somistudio.com)
Víctor Xirau
Cristina Reventós

Betevé

EFE

El Periódico

To all Jury members of the Official, Official Panorama, Discoveries, NETPAC and Special Sections

To all the distributors

OFFICIAL SECTION

Rosa Vergés
Director, Writer and former vice president of AACCE, Spain
President of the jury

Briccio Santos
FILM ASEAN President and Filmmaker | Philippines

Teodoro Granados
FILM ASEAN Project Director | Philippines

Jean Marie del Moral
Photographer | France – Spain

Paco Mulet
Filmmaker and Producer | Spain

OFFICIAL PANORAMA SECTION

Jonathan Harris
Director of the Doctoral School at the University of the Creative Arts in Canterbury
President of the jury

Javier Martín-Domínguez
Filmmaker, Producer and Writer | Spain

Marieta Vasileva Petchanska
Filmmaker, Scriptwriter & Producer | Bulgaria

Manel Domínguez
Editorial Team Member at FILMIN | Spain

Adrià Guxens
Filmmaker | Spain

DISCOVERIES SECTION

Esteban Andueza
Cultural Manager and Translator
President of the jury

Pierre Gonnord
Photographer | France – Spain

Rocío de la Villa
Professor of Aesthetics at the Autonomous University of Madrid | Spain

José Félix Collazos
Professor of Cinema and Film Critic at Caíman Magazine | Spain

Marla Jacarilla
Visual Artist, Writer and Film Critic | Spain

NETPAC SECTION (Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema)

Diana Ashimova
Producer | Kazakhstan
President of the Jury

Álvaro Gurrea
Filmmaker | Spain

Kei Matsushima
Director of Japanese Studies at the Autonomous University of Barcelona | Japan

Alfons Mas
Director of Cinemes Boliche | Spain

Eugenio Ribera
Writer and Film Critic | Spain

SPECIAL SECTION

Sandra Mur Puyuelo
Central Asia Advisor of AFFBCN | Spain

President of the Jury

Qazi Abdur Rahim
Director of Imagine India Film Festival | India

Nomunzuul Turmunkh
Filmmaker | Mongolia

Sandra Sotelo
Journalist and News Correspondent | the Philippines

Eduardo Ruiz Sosa
Writer | México

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