Asian Film Festival

About the Film Festival

Asian Film Festival
Duration (several sessions) 18
Submission end time 2021-04-25

Film Festival Features

Red Carpet · Celebrity Guest · Filmscreen · Trophy · Certificate ·
Asian Film Festival in Italy is one of the most important showcase of Asian Film coming from Far East countries such as South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Philippines, China, Hong Kong, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia. We accept also submissions from Asian American Film makers. The structure of the festival is composed by these categories: competition, out of competition, retrospective, newcomers. We accept also short film, documentaries and film directed by asian european artists. Over the years we showed more than 800 features film and invited great guests such as Peter Chan, Chen Kaige, Tsai Ming Liang, Lee Kang-sheng, Hou Hsiao-hsien and Jia Zhang-ke.Sfilmmaker is our contract submission platform in China, and we look forward to your films.
In the competion the jury composed by italian filmcritics give five awards: best film, best director, best actor, best actress, most original film in competition. There is also an award for the best film in the section "Newcomers". Best film, besti director, best actress, best actor, most original film in competition. Newcomers has two awards.
Genre :Action Comedy War Science fiction Ethics Horror Thriller Violence Adventure Crime Family Musical Romance Magical Fantasy Shootout Suspense Youth Inspirational Arthouse Biography Western Drama others
Subject :Unlimited
Video Format :MPEG4 MPEG
The festival is based on invitation to some filmakers and a selection based on the submissions. Usually the film in competition are between 16 and 18, the film in the newcomers section are 8.

Categories and fees

Competition Short

Video length :2 - 39
Fiction film, short and feature film

Earlybird Deadline2020/11/30
Standard: 30 Dollar / Student: 30 Dollar
Late Deadline2021/03/31
Standard: 35 Dollar / Student: 35 Dollar
Extended deadline2021/04/25
Standard: 40 Dollar / Student: 40 Dollar

Newcomers Feature

Video length :40 - 130
Fiction, short and feature for debut or second feature film

Earlybird Deadline2020/11/30
Standard: 30 Dollar / Student: 30 Dollar
Late deadline2021/03/31
Standard: 35 Dollar / Student: 35 Dollar
Extended deadline2021/04/25
Standard: 40 Dollar / Student: 40 Dollar

Competition Feature

Video length :40 - 130
Fiction film, short and feature film

Earlybird Deadline2020/11/30
Standard: 30 Dollar / Student: 30 Dollar
Late Deadline2021/03/31
Standard: 35 Dollar / Student: 35 Dollar
Extended deadline2021/04/25
Standard: 40 Dollar / Student: 40 Dollar

Newcomers Short

Video length :2 - 39
Fiction, short and feature for debut or second feature film

Earlybird Deadline2020/11/30
Standard: 30 Dollar / Student: 30 Dollar
Late deadline2021/03/31
Standard: 35 Dollar / Student: 35 Dollar
Extended deadline2021/04/25
Standard: 40 Dollar / Student: 40 Dollar

Out of compeition feature

Video length :40 - 130
For known filmmakers and known production and distribution companies

Earlybird Deadline2020/11/30
Standard: 30 Dollar / Student: 30 Dollar
Late deadline2021/03/31
Standard: 35 Dollar / Student: 35 Dollar
Extended Deadline2021/04/25
Standard: 40 Dollar / Student: 40 Dollar

Out of compeition short

Video length :2 - 39
For known filmmakers and known production and distribution companies

Earlybird Deadline2020/11/30
Standard: 30 Dollar / Student: 30 Dollar
Late deadline2021/03/31
Standard: 35 Dollar / Student: 35 Dollar
Extended Deadline2021/04/25
Standard: 40 Dollar / Student: 40 Dollar