Aperture: Asia & Pacific Film Festival returns to London in September with the second part of this year's programme with a focus on Southeast Asia (15-27 Sep), kindly supported by Purin Pictures, and a focus on New Zealand (29-30 Sep), kindly supported by the New Zealand High Commission.
Aperture: Asia & Pacific Film Festival is a UK-wide film festival dedicated to screening some of the boldest, most daring, challenging, and striking films from the Asian and Pacific regions. The festival focuses particularly on underrepresented areas of cinema, and seeks to reframe the ‘idea' of Asia through cinema, while also exploring cinema from the Pacific particularly in relation to its remoteness. Aperture is the only film festival in the UK to focus on the whole of the Asian continent as well as the Pacific region.
Forthcoming screenings:
Newcastle:
12 Sep: People Power Bombshell: The Diary Of Vietnam Rose (John Torres, Philippines) – Star and Shadow Cinema
16 Sep: Waru (Ainsley Gardiner / Casey Kaa, Renae Maihi / Awanui Simich-Pene / Briar Grace Smith / Paula Whetu Jones / Chelsea Winstanle / Katie Wolfe, New Zealand) – Tyneside Cinema
London:
15 Sep: In Time To Come (Tan Pin Pin, Singapore) – King's College London (Lucas Theatre)
17 Sep: Diamond Island (Chou Davy, Cambodia) + Q&A – Close-Up Cinema
18 Sep: Asia Through the Aperture workshop, University of Westminster (Regent Campus, Room UG05)
24 Sep: People Power Bombshell: The Diary Of Vietnam Rose (John Torres, Philippines) + Q&A – Close-Up Cinema
27 Sep: The Island Funeral (Pimpaka Towira, Thailand) – Close-Up Cinema
Aperture actively seeks to work collaboratively with other festivals and has partnered with Chinese Visual Festival, Masala Festival and Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival for its first edition.
Aperture is supported by CREAM (Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media), University of Westminster, Purin Pictures and Day for Night.
Full details on the official website
