and anticipated travel difficulties.
The non-competitive feature film part of the program includes: the Locarno-winning “Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash” by Indonesian director Edwin; Cambodian Kavich Neang’s Venice entry “White Building”; Toronto’s Platform winner “Yuni” by Indonesia’s Kamila Andini; Tan Bee Thiam’s “Tiong Bahru Social Club” from Singapore; Lav Diaz’s “Genus Pan”; Tan Chui Mui’s “Barbarian Invasion”; and Thailand’s arthouse title “There is also a competition section for Southeast Asian short films, with...
The festival also runs seminars and workshops, in collaboration with Purin Pictures. An online pitching session called SEA Pitch was completed before the festival began, with seven projects selected from over 50 submissions. The winners will be announced on Dec. 13. The festival is a misnomer. While it has backing from Thailand’s Ministry of Culture, it is not otherwise affiliated with the inter-governmental Association of South East Asian Nations . Nor are South Korea, Japan, China and India ASEAN members.
“The inclusion of films from China, India, South Korea and Japan is to expand the scope of the festival and to create a cultural dialogue between Southeast Asia and Asia as a whole,” said Pimpaka Towira, filmmaker and the festival’s program director.
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