Osaka Asian Film Festival EXPO 2025 – OAFF 2026 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 21st 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.
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Osaka Asian Film Festival EXPO 2025 – OAFF 2026 第21回大阪アジアン映画祭
PERIOD
August 29 to September 7, 2025
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 Convention & Tourism Bureau
Asahi Television Broadcasting Corporation
Osaka Association of Theater Owners
MEDIA PLUS Co.,LTD
Presented under the auspices of
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
Korean Cultural Center
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
SUPPORTED BY
Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan
SPONSORS
Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
Kobe College, School of International Studies
Housen Cultural Foundation
PARTNERS
Athenee Francais Cultural Center
Abeno Q’s MALL
The Film School of Tokyo
FM COCOLO
Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka
Japan Society
Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in Japan, Taipei Culture Center
Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute
Thailand Creative Culture Agency (THACCA)
T-JOY
Tokyo Theatres Company, Incorporated
Visual Arts Osaka
Yakushi Pearl Japan
Wise Infinity Inc.
Screening Program
- Opening
- Closing
- Competition
- Spotlight
- Indie Forum
- Special Program [Taiwan: Movies on the Move EXPO 2025]
- Special Program [Special Focus on Hong Kong EXPO 2025]
- Special Screenings
- Housen Cultural Foundation-supported programs [Grant for Film Study and Production] [Commendation forStudent Films]
- Special Presentation sponsored by Kobe College, School of International Studies
- Special Presentation [Achievement of VIPO Film Award]
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Related Events
- Film Subtitles Seminar in Osaka University Minoh Campus
- Poster Exhibitions
Venues
- ABC Hall
- Theatre Umeda
- T-Joy Umeda
- Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka
- Osaka City Central Public Hall