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San Diego Asian Film Festival Announces Full Programme for 2021

In cinemas across San Diego Oct. 28 to Nov. 6.

Oct 25, 2021 • Subscribe

Glasgow Film Festival Announces 2022 Programme

Runs in Glasgow 2nd to 13th March with selected films screening at partner venues throughout the UK

Jan 27, 2022 • Subscribe

Osaka Asian Film Festival 2023 Announces Complete Lineup

In Osaka 10th to 19th March.

Mar 5, 2023 • Subscribe

Taiwan Film Festival Edinburgh Announces 2022 Programme

At Summerhall and Everyman Everyman Cinema Edinburgh 15th to 20th October.

Oct 10, 2022 • Subscribe

Osaka Asian Film Festival 2023

For the second year in a row, the Heroic Purgatory podcast is covering the Osaka Asian Film Festival (OAFF) which took place between March 10 and March 19.…

Mar 21, 2023 • Subscribe

Osaka Asian Film Festival 2023

For the second year in a row, the Heroic Purgatory podcast is covering the Osaka Asian Film Festival (OAFF) which took place between March 10 and March 19.…

Mar 21, 2023 • Subscribe

Osaka Asian Film Festival 2023

For the second year in a row, the Heroic Purgatory podcast is covering the Osaka Asian Film Festival (OAFF) which took place between March 10 and March 19.…

Mar 21, 2023 • Subscribe

London Korean Film Festival Announces Full Programme for 2021

In cinemas across London 4th to 19th November

Oct 5, 2021 • Subscribe

Osaka Asian Film Festival 2022 Announces Complete Lineup

At venues across Osaka March 10 to 20 plus 10-film retrospective selection streaming worldwide March 3 to 21

Feb 26, 2022 • Subscribe

New York Asian Film Festival 2023

Table of Contents For the third year in a row, the Heroic Purgatory podcast is covering the New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF)…

Jul 19, 2023 • Subscribe

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London East Asia Film Festival Announces Full Programme for 2021

In cinemas across London 21st to 31st October

Sep 24, 2021 • Subscribe

Queer East Film Festival Reveals Full 2023 Programme

In cinemas across London 18th to 30th April.

Mar 16, 2023 • Subscribe

Fantasia International Film Festival Confirms Complete 2023 Programme

In Montreal July 20 to Aug. 9.

Jul 7, 2023 • Subscribe

BFI London Film Festival Confirms Complete Programme for 2023

In cinemas across London 5th to 15th October 2023

Aug 31, 2023 • Subscribe

New York Asian Film Festival Confirms 2023 Lineup

Runs July 14 to 30.

Jul 13, 2023 • Subscribe

San Diego Asian Film Festival Announces Lineup for 2022 Spring Showcase

In person at San Diego’s UltraStar Cinemas Mission Valley April 21 to 28

Apr 12, 2022 • Subscribe

Camera Japan Announces Complete Programme for 2023

In Rotterdam 21st to 24th September and Amsterdam 28th September to 1st October

Sep 21, 2023 • Subscribe

Sekai 世界 (2023) Director: Marina Tsukada [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2023]

Sekai 世界, directed by Marina Tsukada, is a rich portrait of two people living in Nagano prefecture. It gently guides us into their inner worlds and exploring them…

Mar 11, 2023 • Subscribe

Queer East Film Festival Reveals Full 2022 Programme

In cinemas across London 18th to 29th May

May 3, 2022 • Subscribe

Queer East Film Festival Reveals Full 2021 Programme

In cinemas across London 15th to 26th September

Aug 30, 2021 • Subscribe

Fantasia International Film Festival Confirms Complete 2021 Programme

In cinemas and streaming across Canada Aug. 5 – 25

Aug 2, 2021 • Subscribe

Fantasia International Film Festival Confirms Complete 2024 Programme

In Montreal July 18 to Aug, 4.

Jul 14, 2024 • Subscribe

Fantasia International Film Festival Confirms Complete 2022 Programme

Runs in Montreal July 14 to Aug. 3

Jul 5, 2022 • Subscribe

BFI London Film Festival Confirms Complete Programme for 2024

The BFI London Film Festival returns to cinemas across the city 9th to 20th October. East Asian highlights this year include the latest from Jia Zhangke, Hong Sang-soo, and Tsai…

Oct 7, 2024 • Subscribe

BFI London Film Festival Confirms Complete Programme for 2022

In cinemas across the city 5th to 16th October and streaming in the UK via BFI Player 14th to 21st October.

Sep 5, 2022 • Subscribe

BFI London Film Festival Confirms Complete Programme for 2021

In cinemas across London & the UK 6th to 17th October with select titles streaming online via BFI Player

Sep 7, 2021 • Subscribe

Bear Man 웅남이 (2023) Director: Park Sung-kwang [New York Asian Film Festival 2023]

Bear Man 웅남이 (2023), by director Park Sung-kwang, is a solid comedy/action/crime film about bears that turn into men. It makes good on its premise and offers an…

Jul 17, 2023 • Subscribe

New Religion ニューレリジョン (2022) Director: Keishi Kondo [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2023]

New Religion ニューレリジョン is a highly-atmospheric horror film from Keishi Kondo who crafts an original story with distinct visuals. It’s one of the best J-horror films I have seen…

Mar 16, 2023 • Subscribe

December 赦し (2022) Director: Anshul Chauhan [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2023]

December 赦し is director Anshul Chauhan’s third feature film. An impressive courtroom drama, it takes us through a harrowing criminal trial that constantly keeps us empathising with and questi…

Mar 12, 2023 • Subscribe

Egoist エゴイスト (2022) Dir: Daishi Matsunaga [New York Asian Film Festival 2023]

Jul 15, 2023 • Subscribe

Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry (2023) Director: Elene Naveriani [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2024]

Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry (2023), by director Elene Naveriani, is a touching late coming-of-age film about a 48-year-old woman in a Georgian village growing into herself after a near-death…

Mar 6, 2024 • Subscribe

Osaka Asian Film Festival 2022’s Japanese Films

Details on many of the Japanese films that will be screened at Osaka Asian Film Festival 2022

Mar 7, 2022 • Subscribe

New York Asian Film Festival Confirms 2022 Lineup

At Lincoln Center & Asia Society 15th – 31st July

Jul 13, 2022 • Subscribe

Hail to Hell 지옥만세 (2023) Director: Lim Oh-jeong [New York Asian Film Festival 2023]

Hail to Hell 지옥만세 (2023), by director Lim Oh-jeong, is a glimpse into the harsh and dark aspects of Korean society and the people who prey on the…

Jul 28, 2023 • Subscribe

Mountain Woman 山女 (2023) Director: Takeshi Fukunaga [New York Asian Film Festival 2023] 2

Mountain Woman 山女 (2023), by director Takeshi Fukunaga (Ainu Mosir), is an atmospheric drama about outcasts struggling in a small famine-hit village in Tohoku, circa the late 18th Century.…

Jul 24, 2023 • Subscribe

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Killing Romance 킬링 로맨스 (2023) Director: Lee Won-Suk [New York Asian Film Festival 2023]

Jul 14, 2023 • Subscribe

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Mayhem Girls メイヘムガールズ (2022) Director: Shinichi Fujita [New York Asian Film Festival 2023]

Mayhem Girls メイヘムガールズ (2022), by director Shinichi Fujita, is a fun youth story of girls finding self-confidence and a place in a world where everyday pressures and Covid-19 affect…

Jul 26, 2023 • Subscribe

City of Wind (2023) Director: Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2024]

City of Wind (2023), by director Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir, is a perfectly-crafted portrait of Mongolian youth that looks at the way modernity and tradition, social order and individuality affect…

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The Japan Foundation UK Touring Film Programme 2023

The good folks from the UK branch of the Japan Foundation have sent us details of their much loved Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2...

Dec 24, 2022 • Subscribe

Home Sweet Home スイート・マイホーム Director: Takumi Saitoh [New York Asian Film Festival 2023]

Home Sweet Home スイート・マイホーム, by director Takumi Saitoh, is a great thriller full of shocks and revelations, and threats that will draw viewers in and leave them on…

Jul 27, 2023 • Subscribe

Where Love Goes 愛のゆくえ (2023) Director: Fuka Miyajima [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2023]

Where Love Goes 愛のゆくえ, from director Fuka Miyajima, is a rich story about love that takes a girl from Hokkaido to Tokyo and back, by way of magical realism.…

Mar 15, 2023 • Subscribe

The Abandoned 查無此心 Director: Tseng Ying-ting (2023) [New York Asian Film Festival 2023]

The Abandoned 查無此心, by director: Tseng Ying-ting (2023), is a solid serial killer film that finds originality in its milieu of illegal immigrants and in the theme of…

Aug 2, 2023 • Subscribe

Osaka Asian Film Festival 2022’s Opening and Closing Films

Details on Osaka Asian Film Festival 2022’s Opening and Closing Films – Yanagawa, Miss Osaka

Feb 9, 2022 • Subscribe

Japanese Films at the London East Asian Film Festival 2021

A brief look at the Japanese Films at the London East Asian Film Festival 2021

Sep 27, 2021 • Subscribe

Ribbon 2021 Director: Non [New York Asian Film Festival 2022]

Ribbon is a Covid-19-themed film about the frustrations of life in isolation and creative blockages. Combining the two, we see a coming-of-age drama where the protagonist overcomes both through…

Jul 20, 2022 • Subscribe

Osaka Asian Film Festival 2022 – In Cinemas, Online, and International

Details on Osaka Asian Film Festival 2022 – It Plays In Cinemas and Online and the online part with be available to International Viewers!

Jan 31, 2022 • Subscribe

Snowdrop スノードロップ Director: Kota Yoshida [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2024]

Snowdrop スノードロップ, by director Kota Yoshida, is a socially conscious domestic drama/character study that looks at the welfare system via a woman chased by the trauma of abandonment…

Mar 5, 2024 • Subscribe

POP! Director: Masashi Komura (2021) [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2021]

POP! provides a slightly surreal, slightly sweet existential crisis. POP! Director: Masashi Komura (2021) [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2021]

Mar 24, 2021 • Subscribe

Taiwan Film Festival Edinburgh Announces Lineup for 2021 Hybrid Edition

Running in person and online streaming for free in the UK 25th to 31st October.