HKETO Brussels happily provides Hong Kong movies throughout Asian Film Festival Barcelona in Spain (with images)
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The Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Brussels (Brussels ETO) supported the Asian Film Festival Barcelona 2025, continuing a collaboration that has actually covered more than a years. For many years, the Festival has actually supplied an important platform to display the imagination and variety of Hong Kong movie theater to worldwide audiences.
The Asian Film Festival Barcelona 2025 commemorates its 13th edition this year and is among the significant celebrations in the city devoted to Asian movie theater. This year, 5 Hong Kong movies are supported by Brussels ETO in the Festival, which started October 29 and runs up until November 9 (Barcelona time). The movies are “Little Red Sweet” “Montages of a Modern Motherhood” “Papa” “The Prosecutor”and “Good Game”showing the storytelling quality and skill of Hong Kong’s filmmakers. The movie “Papa” got the award of the very best movie in the discoveries area.
Brussels ETO hosted a reception on November 8, combining 50 regional movie specialists and cultural lovers. Speaking at the Festival, Deputy Representative of Brussels ETO Mr Kasper Ng stated that Hong Kong, as a location where East fulfills West, has a lively movie market that functions as a bridge for cultural exchanges.
“The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government is committed to supporting our film industry through the Film Development Fund and our dedicated Cultural and Creative Industries Development Agency. As at February 2025, the Fund had approved funding for over 120 projects, engaging more than 110 new directors and producers, with the supported films collectively winning over 180 awards,” Mr Ng stated.
Mr Ng welcomed audience members to go to Hong Kong to experience the city’s arts and culture scene, consisting of a large range of movie celebrations of all sizes, significantly the renowned Hong Kong International Film Festival which will commemorate its 50th anniversary in 2026; along with the Hong Kong International Film & & Television Market (FILMART), which is Asia’s biggest movie and home entertainment material market.