Asian Film Festivals

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Asian Film FestivalsAsia5th Gåsebäck Film Festival– Call for Entry 2027 Dear Asian Filmmakers the Gåsebäck Film Festival (Sweden) is accepting films until July 16, 2027. About the festival : Helsingborg’s premiere film festival event, Gåsebäck Film Festival (GFF) is a…

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Asian Film FestivalsAsia31st Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival – Call for Entry 2027 Dear Asian Filmmakers the Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival (USA) is accepting films until June 15, 2027.

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Asian Film FestivalsAsia23rd HollyShorts Film Festival – Call for Entry 2027 Dear Asian Filmmakers the HollyShorts Film Festival (United States) is accepting short films until June 1, 2027.

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Asian Film FestivalsAsiaEncounters Film Festival – Call for Entry 2027 Dear Asian filmmakers, the Encounters Film Festival (UK) is accepting short films until May 31, 2027.

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Asian Film FestivalsAsia29th Sidewalk Film Festival – Call for Entry 2027 Dear Asian filmmakers, the Sidewalk Film Festival (USA) is accepting films until April 30, 2027. About the festival : Established in 1999 as the flagship program of the Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema…

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Asian Film FestivalsAsia31st Fantasia International Film Festival – Call for Entry 2027 Dear Asian filmmakers, the Fantasia International Film Festival (Canada) is accepting films until April 15, 2027.

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Asian Film FestivalsAsia39th Galway Film Fleadh – Call for Entry 2027 Dear Asian filmmakers, the Galway Film Fleadh (Ireland) is accepting feature films until March 15, and short films until April 12, 2027.

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Asian Film FestivalsAsia26th DokuFest International Documentary and Short Film Festival – Call for Entry 2027 Dear Asian filmmakers, the DokuFest International Documentary and Short Film Festival (Kosovo) is accepting short films and documentaries until March 31, 2027.

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Asian Film FestivalsAsia23rd Play-Doc International Film Festival – Call for Entry 2027 Dear Asian filmmakers, the Play-Doc International Film Festival (Spain) is accepting documentaries until March 15, 2027.

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Our mark is 銀幕, ginmaku — the silver screen, and the same two characters in Japanese, Chinese and Korean.

I came to Tokyo at twenty-three for a summer job at a Shibuya mini-theatre and the job never quite ended. Fifteen years of festivals later I still think the only review that counts is the one the room gives you: where the laugh lands, the moment three hundred people stop moving at once, whether anybody stays for the credits.

Cinepuuulse follows Asian cinema — Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand — across about a hundred and twenty sources. A good number of them are Spanish, French and Portuguese, because those countries programme this work seriously and write about it better than most of the English-language trade. Genre and art-house get the same seat here. I am not ranking them, and nothing is scored out of ten.

Each story is a headline, a short excerpt, one still and a link to the outlet that did the reporting. We never republish the piece, and the still belongs to its studio or its photographer. A Korean trade paper appears in Korean, a French review in French. We point at the work; we do not put words in anyone's mouth.

— Daren Wise, Tokyo