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Amazing Asia in Adelaide
The 2009 OzAsia Festival in Adelaide will include a fantastic array of Asian and Asian influenced cinema.
The cinematic delights of our Asian neighbours can be sampled at this year's OzAsia Festival in Adelaide. The festival, which aims to highlight the multicultural collaboration between Australia and Asia, as well as the contributions made by a rich history of Asian immigration into Australia, will introduce Adelaide locals to a variety of artistic, gastronomic and cinematic samples from a collection of Asian countries.
This year's festival will introduce patrons to a spectacular line-up of films from Australian, Asian/Australian, and Asian directors and range from family comedies such as Kung Fu Chefs which follows the journey of an elite chef as he trains an amateur to enter a Top Chef competition, documentaries such as China Dolls which talks to gay men of Asian/Australian descent about being part of a double minority, and dramas such as the compelling Balibo which tells the incredible true story of five Australian journalists who were murdered in East Timor on the eve of the Indonesian invasion.
A smaller subset of the festival includes a collection of features from Hong Kong. Five feature films explore the rich diversity of drama that originates from this small Chinese territory and include historical biographies, contemporary drama and the epic filmic creation of one of China's four great classic novels, Three Kingdoms-Resurrection of the Dragon.
In between screening highly anticipated Asian films, the festival will also play host to food, art, dance and animania exhibitions to encourage further artistic collaboration between Australia and Asia.
The third OzAsia Festival takes place from the 3rd to the 17th of October. For a complete list of films and more details about the festival, visit http://www.adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au/ozasia/
Picture caption: scene from anime The Skycrawlers
