Five Flavours Asian Film Festival invite you for a journey through taste, colors, and sounds of the Asian continent, hoping they can provide food for your thoughts and solace for your spirits.
The Programme of this year's Festival comprises more than forty titles representing the extreme variety of Asian cinemas – from horror cinema to sweet melodramas, from grasping auteur cinema to relaxing journeys around the continent.
All the films will be presented online between November 25 and December 6.
Preparing this year's edition forced the organisers to face up to completely new challenges – from the matters of logistics to finding new ways of thinking about their mission, priorities, building bridges between filmmakers and audiences outside the screening rooms. The online edition of the Festival is not a compromise, but a different way to reach the, perhaps even wider, audiences, discover the rich variety of Asian cultures, and explore the contemporary voice of Asia through different media.
The Programme of the Festival includes films that provoke discussion, comment on the crucial political and social phenomena, but also productions experimenting with new forms of storytelling, inspiring with the possibilities of new technologies, providing insight into the worlds that we perhaps didn't even know existed. But looking at the final selection, you can detect another theme of closeness, interpersonal bonds, and making real connections, which we all desperately need in these difficult times.
How to watch?
All the films will be available on a special Five Flavours VOD platform. They will not have a set screening time – most of them will be available to watch at any given moment during the whole Festival. Some will be available for a limited period of time – if so, this information will be immediately visible on the title list.
You can buy an online Festival pass here
FULL PROGRAMME Five Flavours Asian Film Festival 2020
New Asian Cinema
Beauty Water (2020, dir. Cho Kyung-hun)
Boluomi (2019, dir. Lau Kek Huat, Vera Chen)
Daughters (2020, dir. Hajime Tsuda)
Geran (2020, dir. Areel Abu Bakar)
Impetigore (2019, dir. Joko Anwar)
Jallikattu (2020, dir. Lijo Jose Pellissery)
Rom (2019, dir. Tran Thanh Huy)
Sometime, Sometime (2020, dir. Jacky Yeap Swee Leong)
Under the Open Sky (2020, dir. Miwa Nishikawa)
Verdict (2019, dir. Raymund Ribay Gutierrez)
Wisdom Tooth (2019, dir. Liang Ming)
Tasty Cinema
Bento Harassment (2019, dir. Rempei Tsukamoto)
Bittersweet (2016, dir. Shogo Kusano)
Foodlore: He Serves Fish, She Eats Flower (2019, dir. Phan Dang Di)
Foodlore: The Caterer (2019, dir. Pen-ek Ratanaruang)
Kamome Diner (2006, dir. Naoko Ogigami)
Little Forest (2018, dir. Yim Soon-rye)
Not My Mother's Baking (2020, Remi M Sali)
The Tale of Samurai Cooking (2013, dir. Yuzu Asahara)
Journey to Asia
Hotel Salvation (2016, dir. Shubhashish Bhutiani)
Mekong 2030 (2020, dir. Kulikar Sotho, Anysay Keola, Sai Naw Kham, Anocha Suwichakornpong, Pham Ngoc Lân)
Mermaid Unlimited (2017, dir. O Muei)
Ohong Village (2019, dir. Lim Lung-yin)
Sea Serpent (2017, dir. Joseph Laban)
The Takatsu River (2019, dir. Yoshinari Nishikori)
Hong Kong Now
A Witness Out of the Blue (2020, dir. Fung Chih-chiang)
Apart (2020, dir. Chan Chitman)
Lost in the Fumes (2017, dir. Lam Tze Wing Nora)
Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down (2020, dir. Kate Reilly, Leung Ming-kai)
Suk Suk (2019, dir. Ray Yeung)
Trivisa (2016, dir. Frank Hui, Jevons Au, Vicky Wong)
Asian Cinerama
Gully Boy (2019, dir. Zoya Akhtar)
Gundala (2019, dir. Joko Anwar)
Kim Ji-young, Born 1982 (2019, dir. Kim Do-young)
My Prince Edward (2019, dir. Norris Wong)
One Night (2019, dir. Kazuya Shiraishi)
Suk Suk (2019, dir. Ray Yeung)
Parasites
A Hard Day (2014, dir. Kim Seong-hun)
Beasts Clawing at Straws (2020, dir. Kim Yong-hoon)
Dust and Ashes (2019, dir. Park Hee-kwon)
Loser's Adventure (2018, dir. Ko Bong-soo)
Lucky Chan-sil (2019, dir. Kim Cho-hee)
Microhabitat (2017, dir. Jeon Go-woon)
Rain Fruits (2020, dir. Song Youngyoon, Lee Sngmoo, Sergio Bromberg, Jeon Hyejin, Kim Jinhyung, Kim Hwaeun)
Asian VR
Black Bag (2019, dir. Qing Shao)
Bloodless (2017, dir. Gina Kim)
Geimu (2020, dir. Dorian Goto Stone)
Rain Fruits (2020, dir. Song Youngyoon, Lee Sngmoo, Sergio Bromberg, Jeon Hyejin, Kim Jinhyung, Kim Hwaeun)
Replacements (2020, dir. Jonathan Hagard)
SIM: The Blind (2020, dir. Cooper Yoo Sanghyun)
Tag Along VR (2018, dir. Cheng Pu-yuan)
Your Spiritual Temple Sucks (2017, dir. John Hsu)
Polish Flavours
The Taste of Pho (2019, dir. Mariko Bobrik)
