Disclosed first movies for the Asian Summer Film Festival in Vic

From http://cinemaoriental.com/ca/portfolio-item/avanc-de-programacio (in Catalan)

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350"] Image from the movie Joyful Reunion (飲食男女好遠又好近) from Film Business Asia website[/caption]

This year the Asian Summer Film Festival (Festival Nits de Cinema Oriental) will project more movies than ever before. Sixteen titles will be displayed in the official competition of the festival to win the Lucky Cat (Gat de la Sort), given by popular votes. The festival will also display a selection of Taiwanese films, of morning children's movies and other special night projections.

So far, these are the movies that have been announced for this year's festival:

• The Last Tycoon (大上海), by Wong Jing (王晶)


• Wu Dang (大武当之天地密码), by Patrick Leung (梁柏坚)


• Lost in Thailand (人再囧途之泰囧), by Xu Zheng (徐峥)


• Joyful Reunion (飲食男女— 好遠又好近), by Tsao Jui-Yuan (曹瑞原)


• Barfi!, by Anurag Basu

 

The opening movie will be The Soul of Bread (愛的麵包魂), by Sean Kao (高炳權) and Lin Chun-Yang (林君陽).



Finally, the festival organizers also presented this year's poster, with the mascot Xi Wang, the Formosa bear.

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="300"] 2013 poster of the Asian Summer Film Festival in Vic with the mascot Xi Wang, the Formosa bear[/caption]