Brisbane Asia Pacific Film Festival Unveils Its Amazing Program For 2015

The Brisbane Asia Pacific Film Festival (BAPFF) has announced its 2015 program, which contains 102 films from 42 countries that will be screened over 11 days between November 19 and 29. Of the 102 films, 83 are features, 9 are shorts, 10 are Virtual Reality works, 33 are Australian premieres and 23 are Queensland premieres. The Festival will open on November 19 with Hany Abu-Assad's The Idol and close on November 29 with Tsui Hark's The Taking Of Tiger Mountain 3D.

Browsing through the program for this year's BAPFF, Australia's only Asia Pacific-dedicated film festival, I have to say it is a truly amazing line-up.  

As usual, there are the award winners like Frenzy, the Turkish thriller that took home this year's Venice Film Festival Special Jury Grand prize; Jafar Panahi's Tehran Taxi (aka Taxi), winner of the Golden Bear at Berlin and The Assassin, which won Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsaio Hsien Best Director at Cannes. 

And there are renowned filmmakers' exciting new films including acclaimed cinematographer Christopher Doyle's Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous, Hong Sang-soo's Right Now, Wrong Then, Naomi Kawase's  An and Apichatpong Weerasethakul 's Cemetery of Splendour.

Audiences will also get the rare opportunity to see on the big screen classics such as Tsui Hark's Shanghai Blues, Hou Hsiao Hsien's A City of Sadness, Naruse Mikio's Floating Clouds, the new 4K restoration of King Hu's A Touch of Zen and Patrick Lung Kong's The Story of a Discharged Prisoner (which inspired John Woo's seminal action classic A Better Tomorrow). 

For full program and ticketing information, visit the BAPFF website.