Asian Film Joint 2026 to be Held July 15 (Wed) - 25 (Sat). 4th Edition Theme: 'We Remember'. 16 Asian Films, Including Japanese Premieres.

## Event Overview

'Asian Film Joint 2026: We Remember'

Dates: Wednesday, July 15 - Saturday, July 25, 2026 *Closed on Tuesday, July 21 and Wednesday, July 22
*Pre-events on Saturday, July 11 and Sunday, July 12

Venue: Fukuoka City Public Library, Cinema Hall 'Cinerra' (3-7-1 Momochihama, Sawara-ku, Fukuoka City)
Admission: General 1,400 yen / Students and discount holders 700 yen

Organizer: Sansesha
Co-organizer: Fukuoka City Public Library Cinema Hall Cinerra Executive Committee
Grant: The Japan Foundation

## About Asian Film Joint

Asian Film Joint is a film screening and exchange project that utilizes the film assets cultivated between Fukuoka and Asia to create new interactions and collaborations. It began its activities in 2021.

The project aims to continue utilizing the diverse film assets (networks with Asian filmmakers, collections of Asian classic films held by the Fukuoka City Public Library Film Archive, etc.) that Fukuoka City has cultivated with Asia over 30 years through events like the 'Asian Focus Fukuoka International Film Festival (1991-2020)' and the 'Fukuoka City Film Archive (1996-)'. It seeks to add new chapters to the history of film and culture built by this city and Asia, connecting it to the future.

## Asian Film Joint 2026: We Remember (Wed 7/15 - Sat 7/25)

A main program of 15 works (plus 1 opening film) consisting of new and old Asian films. Under the theme 'We Remember', the program includes 4 Japanese premieres, 5 Kyushu premieres, and 2 works from the Fukuoka City Film Archive collection. (Screening times marked with ※ will feature post-talk events or special lectures.)

### Wed 7/15 19:00※
Opening Screening + Talk: 'Asian Films We Want to Watch Together'

For the opening of Asian Film Joint 2026, we will solicit recommendations from the public via SNS and radio on the theme 'Asian Films We Want to Watch Together', select one film, and screen it. The selected film will be announced in late June. The event will also feature a talk session with guests.
Please send your recommendations with a message to any of the official Asian Film Joint channels below. You may recommend as many films as you like. Deadline: Sunday, June 14. We look forward to your participation!
(Form) https://forms.gle/BG5DqY2D5X2XLh3F8
(Email) info@asianfilmjoint.com
(SNS) DM or comment on Asian Film Joint official Instagram or official X

### Sat 7/18 11:00※, Fri 7/24 14:00
'Narrative' (Japanese Premiere)

Director: Anocha Suwichakornpong Music: Eiko Ishibashi

(2025 / Thailand, South Korea, Japan / 49 min / Japanese and English subtitles)

©Yoko Kusano

A film about the 2010 massacre in Bangkok where government forces fired on protesters. Set 15 years later, the film interweaves the director's research for her next work 'Fiction' with workshops held with victims' families, creating a space where documentary testimony and imaginative reconstruction intersect, questioning the official 'narrative'.

### Fri 7/17 19:00※, Fri 7/24 14:00
'Local Sensations' (Japanese Premiere)

Director: Thunlapop Seangjaroon

(2026 / Thailand / 25 min / Japanese and English subtitles)

An essay film inspired by architectural historian Chatri Prakitnonthakan's essay 'How to Design a Modern Monument Without Being Sanctified'. It explores the dynamics of 'sanctification' and remembrance embedded in temples and monuments in Thai society, resonating with various images appearing in the film.

### Sun 7/19 11:00※
'A Useful Ghost' (Kyushu Premiere)

Director: Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke

(2025 / Thailand, France, Singapore, Germany / 130 min / Japanese subtitles)

In Bangkok, Thailand, plagued by severe dust pollution, a man named March, whose beloved wife died of a respiratory disease, is visited by a vacuum cleaner containing his wife's spirit. Meanwhile, at the factory run by March's family, the ghost of a deceased employee possesses the machinery, bringing operations to a halt. The vacuum cleaner wife, rejected by society, tries to prove herself a 'useful ghost' by helping exorcise the factory... (Distribution/Promotion: SUNDAE)

### Sat 7/18 14:00, Fri 7/24 11:00
'Golden Slumbers' (Kyushu Premiere)

Director: Davy Chou

(2011 / France, Cambodia / 96 min / Japanese and English subtitles)

Cambodia's thriving domestic film industry of the 1960s was devastated by the Khmer Rouge's genocide in 1975. This film traces the testimonies of survivors and the remnants of cinema in modern Phnom Penh, exploring what cinema meant to people and how it can be passed on to the present. (Subtitles courtesy of Tokyo International Film Festival)

### Sun 7/19 15:00※, Thu 7/23 14:00
'Republic of Pipolipinas' (Japanese Premiere)

Director: Renee Dimla

(2025 / Philippines / 105 min / Japanese and English subtitles)

Facing sudden eviction by the government, Cora risks losing her family's ancestral farmland and home. She renounces her Philippine citizenship, declares the founding of a micronation (independent state), and gradually attracts followers who share her beliefs... A mockumentary questioning the foundations of a nation.

### Thu 7/16 19:00※, Thu 7/23 17:00
'A Night of Knowing Nothing'

Director: Payal Kapadia

(2021 / France, India / 104 min / Japanese subtitles)

©Petit Chaos – 2021

A love letter written by a student, L, discovered in a corner of a film university dormitory. Blending documentary and fiction, the film depicts the social issues in India underlying a tragic love story and the real-life 2016 student movement crackdown, searching for hope in the darkness of harsh reality. (Cooperation: Cetera International)

### Sat 7/18 17:00※, Fri 7/24 17:00
'Park' (Kyushu Premiere)

Director: Su Yu-hsien

(2024 / Taiwan / 101 min / Japanese and English subtitles)

Two Indonesian poets engage in idle conversation in a Tainan park after dark, reciting poems about fellow immigrants from their homeland. They transform a security guard's hut into a recording booth and start a fictional radio show. The voices and memories of those who have left their homeland bloom in the night park. What is the meaning of public space in a world of increasing exclusion?