Festival Outline
From Osaka to All Asia!
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 19th 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.
Screening Programs | Related Events | Venues
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Osaka Asian Film Festival 2024
PERIOD
March 1 – 10, 2024
HOSTED BY
Osaka Executive Committee for the Promotion of Moving Image Culture
Osaka City
Osaka Asian Film Festival Association
Osaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Osaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Asahi Television Broadcasting Corporation
Osaka Association of Theater Owners
MEDIA PLUS Co.,LTD
PRESENTED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
Agency for Cultural Affairs
Osaka Prefectural Government
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
SUPORTED BY
Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan
SPONSORS
Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
The Ministry of Culture Thailand, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs Thailand, The Royal Thai Consulate-General Osaka, The National Soft Power Strategy Committee Thailand, Thai Film Director Association
Create Hong Kong, Film Development Fund,
Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (Tokyo),
the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
Kobe College, Department of English
Housen Cultural Foundation
PARTNERS
Athenee Francais Cultural Center
Abeno Q’s MALL
The Film School of Tokyo
FM COCOLO
Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka
Cathay Pacific Airways Limited
Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS), Kyoto University
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
Visual Arts Osaka
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.
Screening Programs
- Special Opening Screening
- Closing Screening
- Competition
- Spotlight
- Indie Forum
- Special Programs <Thai Cinema Kaleidoscope 2024>
- Special Programs <Taiwan: Movies on the Move 2024>
- Special Programs <Special Focus on Hong Kong 2024>
- Special Screenings
- Special Screening sponsored by Kobe College, Department of English
- Housen Cultural Foundation-Supported Program <Grant for Film Study and Production> <Commendation for Student Films>
- Special Presentation
Related Events
- OAFF 2023 ABC TV Award Winner on TV
- Asian Book Fair
- OAFF Poster Exhibition
- Filmmaking Workshop
- Film Subtitles Seminar
- Talk events
Venues
- ABC Hall
- Cine Libre Umeda
- T-Joy Umeda
- Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka