Looking back at the AFFD’s* past rosters (which I do every few years but more so now that I’m posting film images with greater frequency), my fingerprints are all over the years of 2010 through 2012, and I get a sly grin when I think about how hard it was to get the organization’s approval on unique (read: hard to sell) films like BREATHLESS, AT THE END OF DAYBREAK, DANCE TOWN, DISORDER, and LET’S GO!
Sure, there was the occasional VISAGE that just flat didn’t work. I’ll take that hit. But I hated for that beautiful, valuable festival to be only about easy (even if superior) crime films, swordplay, romances, and horror. All great types. But not everything I had in mind.
Below are just a few of the films I wish I could have snagged for the festival during that period.
Yoshifumi Tsubota’s MIYOKO ASAGAYA KIBUN (MIYOKO).
Vimukthi Jayasundara’s AHASIN WETEI (BETWEEN TWO WORLDS).
Kitao Sakurai’s AARDVARK.
Na Hong-jin’s HWANGHAE (THE YELLOW SEA).
*Asian Film Festival of Dallas