Aperture: Asia & Pacific

Film festival

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Aperture 2019 returns for its second edition, continuing our commitment to presenting some of the boldest, most daring and striking films from the Asian and Pacific regions to wide and diverse audiences across the UK. Aperture is the only UK film festival to cover the whole of the Asian region and also to explore Oceania.

Aperture aims to present a stronger platform for cinema from the Asian and Pacific regions, bringing some of the freshest new independent Asian films and moving image works alongside classic titles and lesser-known historical works to UK audiences, with a particular focus on under-represented and under-acknowledged areas of cinema. Further to the first edition of Aperture, we continue our focus on artists’ moving image, our Southeast Asian strand, and we continue to spotlight women in cinema – both in front of and behind the camera.

The team is thrilled to be hosting Singaporean filmmaker Daniel Hui in London for the first complete show of his full body of work to date, including the UK premiere of his latest film Demons. They are also welcome Yih Wen Chen to the UK for the world premiere of her moving documentary Eye on the Ball, with audio-description, on the Malaysian blind youth football team.