Asia Africa Film Festival 2025

Following a violent incident; Eissa a 17 years old African migrant in Egypt is in a quest against time to save his loved ones whatever it takes.

I Swarnangkara was haunted by a monster. Despite his fear, he decided to stop running and face the monster once and for all.

Leaving her family behind, Lynn traverses the harrowing roads of the Cordilleran highlands to try her luck in the city as a country singer.

When the harmony in a village is threatened by outside elements, two sisters must fight to save their people and restore the glory of a mermaid goddess to the land.

18-year-old school girl Shengnan enters a night of adventure in adult's world.

A man and a woman meet by chance and stroll through Seoul's changing streets.

This film tells the story of my relationship with my parents, especially my mother, while we are living under one roof in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Ever since she made the Hajj, the great Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, in 2002, she has changed profoundly. She keeps urging me to get married and to stop making films, since Islam forbids any human representation. When she suggests that we undertake the Hajj together, I accept her invitation: it will be an opportunity for us to resolve our differences, but it will also be the time for me to announce to her that I am in a relationship with a Hindu man. But the COVID-19 pandemic makes our trip impossible. Forced to live behind closed doors with my parents as their health deteriorates, I try to come to terms with what my mother and I still have in common.

Rudran, an ex-Tamil militant returns home from military detention, looking for his lover Vaani who had disappeared during the war. Rudran's mother, Sellamma who is gifted with a 'boon' of soothsaying, tells the locals whether their kith and kin are alive or dead, but she refuses to say the same about Vaani. While men and women defeated in the war find solace in massive Hindu temples, Rudran initially refuses to pray, but later in an act of desperation, he joins a month-long pilgrimage seeking help from God Ayyappa, hoping to unite with his lover.

Following Koffi's return to his birthplace after he has been ostracized by his family, Omen explore the weight of beliefs on one's destiny through four characters accused of being witches and sorcerers, all of them intertwined and guiding each other into the phantasmagoria of Africa.

Lolitha is a transwoman from Papua who is HIV-positive. She shares her perspectives on queer awakening, prostitution, activism, and philosophical analysis of her intersectional identities.

A young couple in Senegal must contend with the disapproval of their remote village.

A Lagos project manager mysteriously goes missing after struggling under financial strain in this slow-burn drama, which deals with some challenging themes of mental health and suicide, but in a sensitive manner.

Somewhere between fantasy, trauma, paranoia, precaution, and the promise of a burger, a night gets catapulted into an investigation of child abuse at a dysfunctional police station in Mumbai.