Asian Film Festival Barcelona 2025
The Asian Film Festival Barcelona | AFFBCN is calling for feature-length fiction films and documentaries submissions from Central Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia to the Asia-Pacific region. The festival will be held from 30 October to 9 November 2025.
AFFBCN covers a geographical expanse, stretching from Iran to Central Asia, a region that includes the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan, as well as Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka; Southeast and East Asia with China, Korea, Japan, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Cambodia, and Viet Nam; and the Asia-Pacific region with Australia and New Zealand.
As in previous editions, AFFBCN 2025 will feature films from more than 20 countries, highlighting some films as usual, but also screening titles from lesser-known countries. One of the festival's objectives is to explore this strange or foreign aspect that cinema reveals to us and to stimulate interest in discovery. Hence, the programme aims to be inclusive; not so much with the intention of covering more titles each year, but rather to give visibility to both well-known authors who already have a fan base, as well as to lesser-known ones. The aim is to provide opportunities to explore local and global narratives and trajectories, with the aim of reviving cultures that are identity references, whose visibility provides us with essential knowledge of what we consider other, strange, or foreign, in relation to the territory, and to ourselves.
The festival will bring together around 100 films, grouped into six competition sections: Official, Official Panorama, Discoveries, NETPAC, Special Section, and New Perspectives, among which the various selected titles will be strategically distributed. There will be awards in Best Film, Best Director, and Best Screenplay, in each of the festival's six sections.
The festival will only accept films produced between 2023 and 2025. All films must be subtitled in English for pre-selection.
Asian Film Festival Barcelona 2025 application guidelines
Deadline: 15 August 2025