OSAKA ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL 2023
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 18th 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.
- Dates & Venues
March 10 - 19
ABC Hall, Cine Libre Umeda, Umeda Burg 7, Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka and the National Museum of Art, Osaka
Programs
- Special Opening “Over My Dead Body”
- Closing “Side by Side”
- Competition
- Spotlight
- Indie Forum
- Indie Forum < Director in Focus: TANAKA Haruna >
- Special Programs < Special Focus on Hong Kong 2023 >
- Special Screenings
- Supported Program < Housen Cultural Foundation: Support for film study and production >
- Special Presentation < Expo '70 Osaka and TAKAHASHI Katsuo >
Events
- Asian Book Fair
- OAFF Poster Exhibition
- Filmmaking Workshop
- Film Subtitles Seminar
- Pre-event Screenings
- 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
Agency for Cultural Affairs
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
Japan Association of Theatre Owners
FM OSAKA
- Supported by
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Japan Arts Council
- Sponsors
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Kobe College, Department of English
Housen Cultural Foundation
- Partners
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Athenee Francais Cultural Center
Abeno Q's MALL
The Film School of Tokyo
FM COCOLO
Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka
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
T-JOY
Tokyo Theatres Company, Incorporated
Machi Library @Morinomiya Q’s Mall
MARUZEN & JUNKUDO Umeda
Morinomiya Q’s Mall BASE
npo remo [record, expression and medium - organization]
Yakushi Pearl Japan
Wise Infinity Inc.
- OAFF Supporter
Shikatokinoko Inc.