In its 11th year running, the Barcelona Asian Film Festival (better known as BAFF) celebrates Asian cinema through a European lens. With a program of 60 feature films, all of which were produced over the past year within Asia, the festival lights up Barcelona’s silver screens for ten days.
Divided into different areas of focus—including films from Southeast Asia, emerging talents, video games as cinema and Filipino cult films—the festival’s program is select while still offering a range of filmic topics and approaches.
Highlighting the trap of using the all-encompassing term, “Asian films,” the organizers have organized the festival in such a way that uses films from the continent to emphasize the diversity of the area and its arts.
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BAFF: A Normal Life, Please
Workers employed under unacceptable conditions are increasing in Japan. This shocking documentary follows truck driver Kaikura ...
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BAFF: Daytime drinking
Hilarious and charming, super low-budget Daytime Drinking is the outstanding debut feature by Noh Young-seok. When a broken-hea...
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BAFF: The Amber Sexalogy
A suite of small but perfectly formed stories that serves as a eulogy to love. Arranged non-chronologically, the first five sho...
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BAFF: Katorse
Dina is fourteen, in the moment of sexual awaking. Disappointed with her best friend she finds comfort in the older brother of ...
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BAFF: Blink
This film is of a decidedly more serious nature: Ambet and his gang of youngsters steal and deal with drugs in the streets of M...
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BAFF: How To Live On Earth
This story is a metaphor about middle-aged people and their love. Yeun-woo feels that things are not going quite well with his ...
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BAFF: Yubari Short Films
The Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival is one of the great wonders of film. Tucked away in the snow-covered mountains...
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BAFF: Temptation Island
Due to their participation in Miss Manila's contest Sunshine, Dina, Suzanne, Bambi and Azenith are on a yacht where the juror m...