AFFBCN 2024: Open Call  

Send your Films 

 

The festival opens the call for the reception of films that could be part of the program of the Asian Film Festival Barcelona, whcih will celebrate its twelfth edition from October 23rd to November 3rd, 2024. 

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THE FESTIVAL 

The Asian Film Festival Barcelona | AFFBCN covers a very wide geographical area, ranging from Iran, Central Asia, a region that includes the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, in addition to Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka; South Asia from China, Korea, Japan, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Cambodia and Vietnam; and Asia Pacific with Australia and New Zealand.

As in previous editions, the AFFBCN will present films from more than twenty countries, highlighting some cinematographies as usual, but without neglecting to screen titles from other less recognised countries. One of the aims of the festival is to explore this stranger or foreigner, that cinema shows us, and stimulate interest in discovery. Hence, in some cases, the programme aims to be rather inclusive, not so much with the intention of including more titles each year, but rather to show not only those whose authors do not go unnoticed because they have their followers but also those who are less known or whose references force us to investigate their respective contextualization, discovery and conquest.

The festival arrives this autumn with a programme that aims to be as representative as possible of the most recent experimental and independent cinema from the Asian continent, without excluding productions that respond both to the interest of an audience familiar with Asian filmmaking, and those who wish to begin to know what a not-so-new cinema transmits to us, whose diversity responds preferably to the different narratives that it exhibits. The exoticism that the West has tended to attribute to these productions has been replaced by the contribution they have made and continue to make to the cultural construction of an identity inseparable from belonging to the territory. 

The festival will bring together more than a hundred films that will be grouped into five sections, Official, Official Panorama, Discoveries, NETPAC and Special, all in competition, in which the different titles selected will be strategically distributed. The corresponding juries will be made up of those members designated for this purpose, directors, film critics and writers who agree to fulfil this role.