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Asian World Film Festival
The Asian World Film Festival highlights foreign language films that have been officially submitted to the Academy as their country’s Oscar® hopeful and those submitted as a Golden Globe hopeful to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association
When:
October 26, 2015 7:00pm to November 2, 2015 10:00pm
Where
The Asian World Film Festival highlights foreign language films that have been officially submitted to the Academy as their country’s Oscar® hopeful and those submitted as a Golden Globe hopeful to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA). The films will screen at the ArcLight Cinema in downtown Culver City and at the luxury iPic Theater in Westwood. The Festival will begin with a Red Carpet Awards Gala on Monday, October 26th at the Culver Hotel followed by the Opening Night Film at the ArcLight Cinema. Throughout the week there will also be Expert Panels on subjects like Film Financing, Distribution, PR, Marketing and Awards Campaigns, Editing for a global audience and more TBA. The Festival will also host many sponsored networking events, cocktail parties and Late Night Social Hours.
Films include:
The Shameless, South Korea
Moira, Georgia
12 Citizens, China
Talakjung VS Tulke, Nepal
Steppe Games, Russia
How To Win at Checkers, Thailand
Kid Kulafu, Philippines
Theeb, Jordan
Jackpot, Vietnam
The Wanted 18, Palestine
Memories on Stone, Iraq
Court, India
Unsolved Love, Russia, Yakutia
Under Heaven, Kyrgyzstan
Thief of the Mind, Mongolia
Sivas, Turkey
Men Who Save the World, Malaysia
100 Yen Love, Japan
Heavenly Nomadic, Kyrgyzstan
The Last Reel, Cambodia
4 O'Clock at Paradise, Syria
Piku, India
From A to B, United Arab Emirates
Jalal's Story, Bangladesh
Let Pan, Burma
Void, Lebanon
Road to the Sky, China
My Voice, My Life, Hong Kong
Utopia, Afghanistan
The Assassin, Taiwan (Closing Film)
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