Asian Film Festival 2025

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The Asian Film Festival Barcelona is back for its 13th edition with a program that includes more than a hundred films from over 20 countries in Asia and the Asia Pacific region, in which historical narrative, gender issues and drama in all its dimensions are explored through the art of cinema.

Asian cinema represents the geographical, political, economic and cultural diversity of an unequal continent. The program includes films originating from critical geographies that defy market globalization. The festival brings films from different cultures and ethnicities from across Central Asia, South-East Asia and Pacific Asia; allowing audiences to go on a journey from Kazakhstan, to Iran, onto Mongolia, the Philippines all the way to New Zealand. Casa Asia continues with its commitment to create for Barcelona a festival that compiles the best films from the Asian continent, as well as to promote a meeting point for professionals of the industry.

2025 Program

The festival opens at CaixaForum with Junji Sakamoto's film Climbing for Life (Japan, 2025), a drama based on the true story of Junko Tabei, one of Japan's greatest female mountaineers and the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Other films on the docket include Park Ri-woong's The Land of Morning Calm (Korea, 2024); Dastan Zhapar Ryskeldi's Deal at the Border (Kyrgyzstan, 2024); Saeed Nouri's Tehran, An Unfinished History (Iran, 2025); Rudrajit Roy's Pinjar (India, 2025); Lee Mi-rang's Concerning My Daughter (Korea, 2023); Yin Lichuan's Like a Rolling Stone (China, 2024); Janus Victoria's Diamonds in the Sand (Philippines, 2024); and many more.

Films will be screened at Filmoteca de Catalunya, Cinemas Girona, Phenomena Experience, CaixaForum and Zumzeig.

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