Archive - 12th Five Flavours Film Festival
New Asian Cinema Competition
New Asian Cinema Competition
New Asian Cinema is a survey of the most outstanding and widely debated new films from South and Southeast Asia, often directorial debuts. The filmmakers competing for the festival Grand Prix make bold comments about the surrounding reality and contemporary social issues.
A Land Imagined, dir. Yeo Siew HuaThey skillfully combine genre films with local narrations, at the same time forming their own, auteur styles and mapping out new cinematic directions. The titles selected for the New Asian Cinema section have unique form and content, expanding the boundaries of the cinematic language. They are deeply rooted in the local context, but they do not shy away from commenting on global social phenomena.
The winner is chosen by People’s Jury – a group cinema lovers and Asian cultures enthusiasts.
Singapore, France, Netherlands 2018, 95’
Thailand 2017, 75’
Taiwan 2018, 115’
China 2018, 117’
Cambodia, USA 2018, 92’
Philippines 2017, 90’
Hong Kong 2018, 118’
Malaysia 2018, 80’
Japan 2018, 118’
Vietnam 2018, 90’
China, Taiwan 2018, 118’