Aperture: Asia & Pacific Film Festival

Snow Leopard – In select UK cinemas from 22 November 🐆 A Day for Night release.

★★★★★ @NEO_Magazine ★★★★★ @EyeForFilm ★★★★ @totalfilm ★★★★ @easternKicks NEXT SOHEE | Now showing in UK cinemas Find a screening near you: day-for-night.org/next-sohee

From director July Jung, NEXT SOHEE, a heartbreaking and well-crafted drama tackling labour exploitation in South Korea. Starring Bae Doona (The Host, Broker) and Kim Si-eun. In cinemas across the UK from 14 June. Find a screening near you: day-for-night.org/next-sohee

Watch SANDSTORM screening as part of @GemArtsuk #MasalaFestival TOPOGRAPHIES: FACES AND PLACES shorts programme, which takes us on a journey through urban and rural landscapes across South Asia. 3.30pm | 22 July | @balticgateshead Info/tickets: baltic.art/whats-on/5f-gemar…

Now showing online (until 30 Dec) as part of the "Urban, Natural, Human" programme: MEMENTO STELLA. Moving-image artist, Makino Takashi composites layers of digital footage to create a contemplation of life adrift in the universe. Watch: watch.eventive.org/urban-nat… #bfijapan

"Misawa interweaves his understated directorial style with imploding relationship dramas akin to those by Hong Sang-soo [and] Eric Rohmer" - Clarence Tsui, @THR Watch Takuya Misawa's CHIGASAKI STORY now: watch.eventive.org/urban-nat… (available until 30 Dec) #bfijapan

Now showing online as part of the "Urban, Natural, Human" programme: Nanako Hirose's BOOK-PAPER-SCISSORS. A #documentary about 75-year-old Kikuchi Nobuyoshi, who painstakingly created the covers of over 15,000 books by hand during his career. Watch: watch.eventive.org/urban-nat…

Watch Koji Fukada's HOTORI NO SAKUKO (Au Revoir L'été). A coming of age tale of a confused web of family ties and a young Fukushima refugee in a coastal town. Showing online until 30 December, as part of the "Urban, Natural, Human" programme: watch.eventive.org/urban-nat… #bfijapan

Moving-image artist Makino Takashi composites layers of digital footage to create a contemplation of life adrift in the universe in MEMENTO STELLA. Now showing online, as part of the "Urban, Natural, Human: exploring Japan on-screen" programme: watch.eventive.org/urban-nat… #bfijapan

In 3.11 SENSE OF HOME, leading directors including Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Bong Joon-ho, Jia Zhangke and Naomi Kawase present their responses to the Tohoku earthquake of 11 March 2011 in 3 minutes 11 seconds each. Now showing online: watch.eventive.org/urban-nat… #bfijapan

From today until the 30th December, the curated programme on Japanese architecture, design and landscape, "Urban, Natural, Human: exploring Japan on screen", is showing online! Explore the virtual programme at: watch.eventive.org/urban-nat… #bfijapan

From the 16th to 30th December, the curated programme on Japanese architecture, design and landscape, "Urban, Natural, Human: exploring Japan on screen", will be online! #BFIJapan Explore the upcoming virtual programme: watch.eventive.org/urban-nat…

This weekend (10-12 Dec) in #Glasgow, the Urban, Natural, Human programme continues at @CCA_Glasgow with #documentaries, experimental works & rare shorts on regeneration, recovery and creativity in Japan. Info/Tickets: cca-glasgow.com/whats-on/col… #bfijapan

Lucille Carra's THE INLAND SEA is a moving travelogue inspired by American writer and film historian Donald Richie’s memoir of journeys through the Inland Sea. SHOWING: Sun 12 Dec, 6.00pm at @CCA_Glasgow Tickets/Info: cca-glasgow.com/programme/ur… #bfijapan

Nanako Hirose's doc, BOOK-PAPER-SCISSORS, is a portrait of 75-year-old Kikuchi Nobuyoshi, who painstakingly created the covers of over 15,000 books by hand during his career. SHOWING: Fri 10 Dec, 6.15pm at @CCA_Glasgow Info/Tickets: cca-glasgow.com/programme/ur… #bfijapan