The third annual Pan-Asia Film Festival took place in London this month (March 2nd-13th). The event is organised by Asia House, a cultural centre that hosts a variety of events throughout the year, designed to promote understanding and exchange between Europe and Asia.
Although the Pan-Asia Film Festival presented just one film per day, with no repeat screenings, the programme reflected a good range of contemporary Asian cinema, both in terms of genre and country of origin. There were ambitious art films such as Tran Anh Hung’s Norwegian Wood (Noruwei no mori) which opened the festival, and political documentaries like Anne Gyrith Bonne’s biopic Aung San Suu Kyi, which was screened to coincide with International Women’s Day, and followed by a discussion with the director and BBC World Service broadcaster Nita Yin Yin May who was herself imprisoned in Burma for 3 years. More serious fare was...
Although the Pan-Asia Film Festival presented just one film per day, with no repeat screenings, the programme reflected a good range of contemporary Asian cinema, both in terms of genre and country of origin. There were ambitious art films such as Tran Anh Hung’s Norwegian Wood (Noruwei no mori) which opened the festival, and political documentaries like Anne Gyrith Bonne’s biopic Aung San Suu Kyi, which was screened to coincide with International Women’s Day, and followed by a discussion with the director and BBC World Service broadcaster Nita Yin Yin May who was herself imprisoned in Burma for 3 years. More serious fare was...
- 3/22/2011
- by Alison Frank
- The Moving Arts Journal
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