Inspired by Asian Film Archive’s own repository of films, Off The Catalogue is a new regular programme that presents a curated mix from its […]

Featuring critically-acclaimed films and festival favourites, Releases is dedicated to screening the best and most promising of contemporary Asian cinema. Director: Panah Panahi Runtime: […]

Retrospective is a regular series showcasing bodies of work from an extended period of activity by filmmakers of different eras. Devoted to the region’s […]

Inspired by Asian Film Archive’s own repository of films, Off The Catalogue is a new regular programme that presents a curated mix from its […]

Orienting Paradise examines the ways Western filmmakers have projected their desires and anxieties onto Asia. In response to the “Mapping the World: Perspectives from […]

To accompany the screenings of director Abdullah Mohammad Saad’s latest film Rehana Maryam Noor screening under AFA’s Releases banner, AFA will have two special […]

Featuring critically-acclaimed films and festival favourites, Releases is dedicated to screening the best and most promising of contemporary Asian cinema. Director: Abdullah Mohammad Saad […]

Celebrating the classics of Asian cinema and beyond, Restored is a regular series showcasing Asian films that have been meticulously preserved and restored by […]

About the online programme The island city of Singapore was the site of a rich film industry in the 1950s and 1960s whose outputs […]

About the Programme Often, we frame films from Southeast Asia, heuristically, commercially, geographically, as works emanating from national cinemas. We situate individual works within […]