21st Filmasia 2024

Twenty years! That’s how long Filmasia has been presenting a curated selection of the most interesting films from Asian cinema. In two decades, we have presented almost two hundred and fifty films, of which almost a hundred are Korean, fifty are Hong Kong, more than forty are Taiwanese and thirty are Japanese. We also visited Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia. Auteur diversity has always been our dramaturgy’s main domain. Where once there was Takashi Miike or Johnnie To, there might be Edward Yang or Tsai Ming-liang. From emerging artists to retrospectives of great masters. In this year’s programme, it is the masters who will symbolically hand over the sceptre to a new generation of women filmmakers. This will mark the end of Filmasia’s second decade. We will celebrate this birthday by looking into the future from the perspective of women directors and heroines.