OSAKA ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL 2022
Event Outline
The Osaka Asian Film Festival (OAFF) aims to facilitate human resources development and exchange, to invigorate the Osaka economy, and to increase the city’s appeal, through providing opportunities to watch excellent Asian films, supporting filmmaking in Osaka and attracting filmmakers from Asian countries and regions to Osaka. Promoting Osaka worldwide as a gateway city for Asian films, and engaging with many people from the fields of culture, art, education, tourism and business, from Osaka and all of Asia, OAFF works as an open platform to contribute to the development of Osaka and cinema.
Marking its 17th edition this year, OAFF, under programming director TERUOKA Sozo (暉峻創三), will again select high-quality Asian films. The Competition section, which receives increased recognition every year, will again select films previously unreleased in Japan. The Indie Forum section, special programs and other sections will also feature a wide variety of excellent Asian films.
Following on from last year, in addition to our regular theatrical screenings, OAFF has selected works that will be screened virtually for "Osaka Asian Film Festival Online." Many of these titles have been shown at previous editions of the Osaka Asian Film Festival and the time is now ripe for them be rediscovered and re-evaluated.
TERUOKA Sozo
Programming Director
Osaka Asian Film Festival
The 17th Osaka Asian Film Festival will open and close with internationally co-produced films, featuring stories set in Japan, by directors from overseas in collaboration with leading Japanese filmmakers. Introducing the works of contemporary filmmakers, who creatively interact and work beyond boundaries such as nationality, national borders and ethnicity, continues to be one of the themes that the Osaka Asian Film Festival has been actively promoting. This year's festival will open and close as an expansion of this theme.
The festival has also been actively involved in promoting Japanese films to the world, from here in Osaka. This year's festival will further strengthen these efforts as part of a project commissioned by the Agency for Cultural Affairs. This will take place not only in theaters, but also through online screenings, special bilingual booklets in Japanese and English, videos on the OAFF official YouTube channel, and other media.
For our regular visitors, the first thing that catches their attention may be the dramatic increase in the number of short films in this year's lineup. In fact, what surprised me the most during the selection process this year was the huge bounty of short films. I invite you to share this surprising bounty with us at the festival.
I hope you will enjoy the 17th Osaka Asian Film Festival from start to finish, as it has the largest number of entries in the festival's history.
- Dates & Venues
March 10 - 20
Umeda Burg 7, Cine Libre Umeda, ABC Hall and the National Museum of Art, OsakaOAFF Online with a special lineup will be held from March 3 - 21.
Programs
- Opening
- Closing
- Competition
- Spotlight
- Indie Forum
- Indie Forum < Special Screenings >
- Indie Forum < Director in Focus: HIGASHI Kahori >
- Director in Focus: YOKOHAMA Satoko
- Special Programs < New Action! Southeast Asia >
- Special Programs < Taiwan: Movies on the Move 2022 >
- Special Programs < Special Focus on Hong Kong 2022 >
- Special Screenings
- Supported Program < Housen Cultural Foundation: Support for film study and production >
- Osaka Asian Film Festival Online < Theater ONE >
Events
- Organized by
Osaka Executive Committee for the Promotion of Moving Image Culture
Osaka City
Osaka Asian Film Festival
Osaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Osaka Convention & Tourism Bureau
Asahi Television Broadcasting Corporation
Osaka Association of Theater Owners
MEDIA PLUS Co.,LTD
- Presented under the auspices of
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Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
Osaka Prefectural Government
Korean Cultural Center Osaka
Federation of Japanese Films Industry, Inc.
Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan, Inc.
Foreign Film Importer – Distributors Association of Japan
FM OSAKA
- Supported by
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Japan Arts Council
- Sponsors
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Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
Kobe College, Department of English
Housen Cultural Foundation
- Commissioned in part by
- The Agency for Cultural Affairs
- Partners
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Athenee Francais Cultural Center
Abeno Q's MALL
The Film School of Tokyo
FM COCOLO
Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS), Kyoto University
The National Museum of Art, Osaka
Research in Film and Society in Southeast Asia (Refssea)
Japan Society
Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in Japan, Taipei Culture Center
T-JOY
Tokyo Theatres Company, Incorporated
Festival Scope
Machi Library @Morinomiya Q’s Mall
MARUZEN & JUNKUDO Umeda
Morinomiya Q’s Mall
npo remo [record, expression and medium - organization]
Yakushi Pearl Japan
Wise Infinity Inc.
- OAFF Supporter
Shikatokinoko Inc.