THE REPORT OF THE THIRD EDITION
Pramana Asian Film Festival is an Asian film festival and independent community event in Calabria, Southern Italy.
The fourth edition will take place in Reggio Calabria from December 19 to 21, 2025. All events are free admission for the public.
For the fourth year in a row, we will offer our city a quality independent film program, representative of different countries and cultures of the Asian continent, with the aim of promoting its cultural diversity through the language of Cinema, and showcasing new filmmakers, authors and artistic movements from the Middle East to the Far East, via Southeast Asia.
The festival was created by three young Italians and South Koreans who studied together in Milan, and is run by a nonprofit cultural organization based in Calabria, Italy.
It represents the first Eastern cinema program in the region, with the goal of creating a quality event that is connected to its community and open to collaborations with other cultural entities in the area.
THE PROGRAM
The idea behind the program was born from our passion for Eastern cinema and culture, together with the awareness that, in Southern Italy, Asia is often object of misunderstandings, stereotypes and prejudices that don’t do justice to its richness.
The differences between the many Asian countries are deep and complex. However, they are too often observed through Western critical perspectives. We want to offer a film program able to narrate Asia from the point of view of those who directly experience it, to stimulate the interest to explore the stories and the traditions from these countries.
For this reason, we intend to select enjoyable movies, able to put together quality, creativity and accessibility. We refuse the idea of an elitist art house cinema, dedicated only to experts and small groups of film enthusiasts but unable to communicate with the general public.
We want to reach especially those who are not used to this type of initiatives and are not familiar with these cultural contents.
ENTRIES FOR THE FOURTH EDITION OF PRAMANA ARE OPEN!
We are looking for independent short and feature films produced on the Asian continent or directed by Asian filmmakers.
If you are a director, distributor, producer, and would like to be part of the Competition of the Fourth Edition of Pramana Asian Film Festival, you can find all the details and rules on FilmFreeway.
