From 7 to 11 December the Across Asia Film Festival returns to Cagliari , an international event , now in its ninth edition, dedicated to contemporary, independent and emerging Asian cinema.

Awaiting visitors is a selection of over 20 films – with Italian and European premieres – and a widespread review with screenings and collateral events in various locations around the city : Cinema Notorious, Manifattura Tabacchi - Fuorimargine, Arc, Polo Bibliotecario Falzarego 35, Teatro del Salt.

The festival's gaze winks at independent and emerging productions , at female and young cinema , at the 'queer' universe. Among the titles featured in the review stands out "Yuni" signed by Indonesian Kamila Andini and awarded at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival , which tells the cultural taboos and restrictions suffered by women through the gaze of a teenager with her plans for the future . Then again "A Night of Knowing Nothing" by Indian director Payal Kapadia who documents the revolts of students against the caste system through the mechanism of "found footage ". Also on the program is "Everything is Cinema" by the Indian master of the no-budget documentary Don Palathara who recounts the feeling of paranoia linked to the pandemic.

A series of side performances is planned: the masterclass of the Sri Lankan artist and choreographer Sara Mikolai , the soundtracks of the musician Daniele Ledda, the presentation of the book "Whispering Catastrophe" by Jacopo Miliani . The world of manga and science fiction was also represented, with the first work "Alien Artist" by the Japanese Hoya Seiyo and the tribute to the Korean author Park Syeyoun with his feature film "The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra" .

(Unioneonline/vf)

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