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The full line-up for the 17th edition of the Osaka Asian Film Festival (Oaff) has been announced.

The films chosen for this year’s festival come to a record number of 77 in total, and these include 24 World Premieres, 13 International Premieres, and 28 Japan Premieres. Films from a record number of 31 countries and regions, including China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Mongolia, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Australia, the UK, Germany, Hungary, Denmark, Norway, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, the USA, and Japan, will be screened.

(10 films from Osaka Asian Film Festival Online have been screened at previous OAFFs and are therefore not included in the above number of films and countries.)

Presented by: Osaka Executive Committee for the Promotion of Moving Image Culture

Dates: March 10 – March 20, 2022

Online (Selected films from previous Oaff programs): March 3 – March 21, 2022

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The Osaka Asian Film Festival has unveiled its biggest ever program – a total of 76 films – to unspool next month.

Its competition section includes the acclaimed Korean debut film “Aloners,” which offers an exacting critique of the alienating effects upon life of modern capitalist economies; Hong Kong biopic “Anita”; the world premiere of “Angry Son,” which combines LGBT and mixed race themes in a heartwarming comedy; Kong Dashan’s new take on “Journey to the West,” as a ragtag group of people on a UFO hunt; “Mama’s Affair,” the second film by Kearen Pang, whose 2017 debut “29+1” won Osaka’s audience award, “No Land’s Man” from Mostofa Sarwar Farooki and festival circuit hit “Barbarian Invasion.”

The spotlight section includes ten titles. Among them are “The Ground Beneath her Feet” from Bangladesh’s Mohammad Rabby Mridha; “A Room of Her own” from China’s Xie Yiran; and Carlo Francisco Manatad’s “Whether the Weather is Fine.

Covid-related travel restrictions have made Busan’s film market a more Korean affair. But, having gone virtual, that does not have to be the case.

Some 22 European sales companies, more than in 2020, will wake part at the Asian Contents & Film Market which kicks off Monday. They are helped by the annual Europe! Umbrella for European World sales and by Film Sales Support.

The online umbrella stand sees the participation of: LevelK and TrustNordisk form Denmark; Media Move and New Europe Film Sales from Poland; Films Boutique, The Match Factory, Picture Tree International, m-appeal, Sola Media and Pluto Film from Germany; Minerva Pictures, Intramovies, Fandango Film Sales, True Colours and Tvco from Italy; Latido and Filmax and newcomers Begin Again Films, Moonrise Pictures, Feel Content and Feel Sales; from Spain; and Heretic from Greece.

Highlights include Hungary’s Cannes competition entrant “The Story of My Wife” by Ildiko Enyedì, represented by...