Asia House Festival

Regent Street Cinema hosts the Asia House Film Festival 2016

London’s earliest independent cinema is delighted to announce that it will be hosting four double bill screenings as part of this year’s Asia House Festival.
This includes three UK premiers, three European premiers and two London premiers.

On Thursday February 25th, come and watch the European premiere of Tursunov’s latest film Little Brother (Kenzhe). A sleek, contemporary hitman thriller, Little Brother sees brother pitted against brother, casting a cynical eye on where Kazakhstan is heading. Tursunov will participate in a director Q&A after this screening.

Chinese director Zhang Wei will join audiences at the Regent Street Cinema on Friday February 26th for the European premiere of his gripping drama Factory Boss. The film presents an engrossing depiction of the ‘Made in China’ hallmark, delving deep into the country’s manufacturing culture from the perspectives of the workers and the executive suite. The film’s lead actor, Yao Anlian, won the Best Actor Award at the 2014 Montréal Film Festival.

On the same day, a second European premier will take place in the form of director Benson Lee’s 2015 film Seoul Searching. A romantic teen comedy set in the mid-1980s, the film features a group of diverse Korean high-schoolers from around the world who come together at a summer camp in Seoul to learn about their Korean heritage. Featuring a soundtrack of the era’s most fondly remembered tunes, the film goes beyond nostalgia to present a witty portrait of national, social and ethnic identity.

Japanese director Shunji Iwai’s 2015 anime film The Case of Hana and Alice will be screened at the Regent Street Cinema on 27 February. A gently comedic prequel to Iwai's 2004 live-action film Hana and Alice, the film sees two schoolgirls investigate an urban myth surrounding a mysteriously vanished former classmate. The film appears to be traditional Japanese anime, however it was shot using real actors and sets, then put through a digital rotoscope process (a form of retracing live-action footage).

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Full Asia House festival schedule at Regent Street Cinema:
Thursday 25th February
Little Brother – 6.30pm
40 Days of Silence – 8.45pm
Friday 26th February
Factory Boss – 6.30pm
Banana Pancakes and the Children of Sticky Rice – 8.45pm
Saturday 27th February
The Case of Hana and Alice – 3pjm
Seoul Searching – 6pm
Sunday 28th February
The Monk – 3pm
Mina Walking – 6pm