Forum Groningen – 8 May – CinemAsia on Tour 2024
CinemAsia on Tour 2024 starts on Wednesday 8 May in Groningen at Forum! We are bringing our Jury Award Winner A Song Sung Blue by GENG Zihan to Forum. It sold out during our main festival so if you missed it this is your chance to see it. This screening is in coproduction with international Film Fes
CinemAsia Film Festival Reports Significant Growth During Impactful Anniversary Edition
Jin Ong’s Abang Adik Wins the 2024 CinemAsia Audience Award The 16th edition of the CinemAsia Film Festival, which also commemorated its 20th anniversary, concluded another successful edition in Amsterdam with the Taiwanese film Gaga, where the director, Laha Mebow, shared her filmmaking pr
A Song Sung Blue by Geng Zihan wins the CinemAsia Film Festival 2024 Jury Award
The 16th edition of CinemAsia Film Festival in Amsterdam, marking the 20th-year-anniversary of the festival, came to a close with the festive award ceremony, announcing the winner of the competition program. The CinemAsia 2024 Jury Award goes to the Chinese director Geng Zihan for her coming-of
Embark On A Journey Through Virtual Asia
CinemAsia 2024 has officially kicked off on March 5th with a wonderful opening film HAPPY PALACE, its cast and crew and many fabulous guests. From March 5-10 we are celebrating the beauty and diversity of Asian cinema, which crosses borders, languages and forms. This year marks our 20th anniversary
It’s A Wrap! – The making of FilmLAB’s OLD MISS
In January the cast and crew of the film OLD MISS, a CinemAsia FilmLAB production, gathered in Rotterdam for their final day of filming. The short film OLD MISS, by director and writer Chinh Van Tran, tells the story of Miss, a Vietnamese nanny living in the Netherlands, looking after two Vietnamese
Traveling Back In Time: The Dutch Asian Perspective at CinemAsia 2024
CinemAsia not only aims to bring the best of contemporary Asian cinema to the Netherlands, but also seeks to help support the stories of the Dutch Asian diaspora. These stories have always been an important part of our festival and this year no different! At the 20th anniversary of the CinemAsia Fil
Women Lead Women: Changing the Narrative in the Film Industry
CinemAsia, as a film festival and a cultural platform, is about diversity and representation. We want to give voice to those who have not been able to speak for themselves and give them power to create freely. As we come closer to this year’s edition of the festival, we want to recognize those who
Celebrating Asian Diasporic Cinema
CinemAsia not only aims to bring the best of contemporary Asian cinema to the Netherlands, but also seeks to help support the stories of the Asian Diaspora. The word diaspora refers to the “movement or migration of people away from an established or ancestral homeland.” Asian diasporic cinema re