Osaka Asian Film Festival EXPO 2025 - OAFF 2026 Competition and Housen Short Film Award Juries Osaka Asian Film Festival (OAFF) announces this year’s Competition jury members, and Housen Short Film Award jury members on 22nd August 2025.
Competition Jury Members
HIDAKA Nanami, Actor (Japan)
ONG Kuo Sin, Director (Singapore)
Housen Short Film Award Jury Members
LIU Wenbing, Film Reseacher
Geo LOMUNTAD, Producer (Philippines)
Venue : Osaka City (ABC Hall, Theatre Umeda, T-Joy Umeda, Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka and Osaka City Central Public Hall)
Dates: 29 Aug - 6 Sep 2025
Opening with "Tracing to Expo ‘70" will be held on August 29. Closing with "A Good Child" will be held on September 7, 2025.
Members of the Competition Jury
FU Tienyu／Director
FU is a representative female director from Taiwan. Her work consistently reflects a deep empathy for women’s experiences and emotional lives. Her works, including Somewhere I Have Never Travelled (2009), My Egg Boy (2016) and Day Off (2023, OAFF2023), earned her the Kurosawa Akira Award at the 37th Tokyo International Film Festival, making her the second Taiwanese filmmaker to receive this honor after HOU Hsiao-hsien.
HIDAKA Nanami／Actor
as Sayounara (dir. ISHIBASHI Yuho), Mugen Foundation (dir. OSAKI Akira), The Real Thing (dir. FUKADA Koji), Step (dir. IIZUKA Ken), and Twilight Cinema Blues (dir. JOJO Hideo). She played the protagonist's buddy in Back to That Day (dir. MAEDA Seira). Her recent credits include Mikazuki to Neko (dir. KAMIMURA Naho) and Traveling Alone (dir. ISHIBASHI Yuho), which premiered at the Busan International Film Festival. Both Dreams and Paths and Coffee After All, in which she stars, will be screened in the Indie Forum section at OAFF EXPO2025-OAFF2026.
ONG Kuo Sin／Director
ONG is a Singaporean writer, producer, and director who works across television and film on projects that reflect Singaporean identity and societal aspirations. His works include long-running dramas like "Tanglin" (2015-18) and "Kin" (2018-22) and the Golden Horse Award-nominated film Number 1 (2020) and its sequel Number 2 (2025). His latest film, A Good Child, will be screened as the OAFF EXPO2025-OAFF2026 Closing Film.
Members of the Housen Short Film Award Jury
Jun LI／Director
LI, born in 1991, studied journalism at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and earned a master's in gender studies from Cambridge University. His directorial debut Tracey (2018) premiered at the Tokyo International Film Festival, followed by Drifting (2021) which played at Rotterdam. As a producer, he made Fly Me to the Moon (2023). His latest film, Queerpanorama (2025), will be screened at OAFF EXPO2025-OAFF2026 Spotlight section.
LIU Wenbing／Film Reseacher
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Humanities, The University of Osaka. Completed a PhD program at the University of Tokyo. PhD (Academic). Author of monographs including "Japanese Filmmakers and China" (Genshobo, 2021), "The History of Exchange in Japanese and Chinese Film" (University of Tokyo Press, 2016), "The Exuberant Golden Age of Chinese Film" (Iwanami Shoten, 2012), and "Shanghai in Film" (Keio University Press, 2004) (all in Japanese). Supervised the "Studio Ghibli Story Exhibition" (2024) and the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs' "Special Feature: Films that Bridged the Gap between Japan and China" (2017). Winner of the Japan Film Pen Club Award Encouragement Prize (2015).
Geo LOMUNTAD／Producer
Based in Manila, Geo LOMUNTAD is a bold new voice in the Filipino film scene and founder of Super!, a production company committed to championing original, globally resonant Filipino stories. He is an alumnus of Berlinale Talents, Talents Tokyo, Busan Asian Film School, and Rotterdam Lab. His debut feature as lead producer, The Missing (OAFF2024), directed by Carl Joseph Papa, made history as the Philippines' official submission to the 96th Academy Awards and won Best Animated Film at the 2024 Asia Pacific Screen Awards. His latest feature, Sunshine, which premiered at the 2024 TIFF and won the Crystal Bear at the 2025 Berlinale, will be screened in the OAFF EXPO 2025-OAFF 2026 Competition section.
WEB: https://oaff.jp/oaff2025expo/
The Osaka Asian Film Festival aims to facilitate human resources development and exchange, to invigorate the Osaka economy, and to increase the city’s appeal, through providing opportunities to watch excellent Asian films, supporting filmmaking in Osaka and attracting filmmakers from Asian countries and regions to Osaka.
Promoting Osaka worldwide as a gateway city for Asian films, and engaging with many people from the fields of culture, art, education, tourism and business, from Osaka and all of Asia, OAFF works as an open platform to contribute to the development of Osaka and cinema.
Marking its 21st edition this year’s OAFF, under programming director TERUOKA Sozo (暉峻創三), will again select high-quality Asian films. The Competition section, which receives increased recognition every year, will again select films previously unreleased in Japan.
The regular sections, Special Screenings and Indie Forum, and other special programs will also feature a wide variety of excellent Asian films. OAFF attracts a large number of viewers from all over Japan and overseas, as well as from the local Kansai area. From Osaka to all of Japan and all of Asia, OAFF introduces many films and strives to make Osaka a hub of moving image culture.
วันที่ 22 สิงหาคม 2568 - เทศกาลภาพยนตร์เอเชียโอซาก้า เอ็กซ์โป 2025 - OAFF 2026 (29 ส.ค. - 7 ก.ย. 2568) ได้ประกาศรายชื่อคณะกรรมการตัดสินรางวัลเทศกาลภาพยนตร์เอเชียโอซาก้า (OAFF) และหนังสั้น Housen ประจำปีนี้
คณะกรรมการตัดสินรางวัล Osaka Asian Film Festival
HIDAKA Nanami นักแสดงชาวญี่ปุ่น
ONG Kuo Sin ผู้กำกับชาวสิงคโปร์
คณะกรรมการตัดสินรางวัลหนังสั้น Housen
LIU Wenbing นักวิจัยภาพยนตร์ (ที่ญี่ปุ่น)
Geo LOMUNTAD ผู้อำนวยการสร้างจากฟิลิปปินส์
สถานที่จัดงาน: ABC Hall, Theater Umeda, T-Joy Umeda, พิพิธภัณฑ์ศิลปะโอซาก้า Nakanoshima และ Osaka City Central Public Hall, โอซาก้า
พิธีเปิดเริ่มวันที่ 29 สิงหาคม ด้วยหนังไต้หวันเรื่อง Tracing to Expo ‘70 และปิดฉากในวันที่ 7 กันยายนนี้ด้วยหนังแนว LGBTQ จากสิงคโปร์เรื่อง A Good Child
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