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This section will screen 19 films chosen out of 230 submissions from India, Pakistan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Iran, the Philippines, Israel, Japan, and Korea. The selected lineup this year is notable in the fact that they deal with various subjects including the (mis)communication between international marriage migrant women and their mothersin- law, traveling women, global women laborers, the identity of the 880,000 won generation (also known as the 1,000 euro generation in other parts of the world), spectacles of everyday lives, the sexual crisis of middle aged women as well as long time feminist issues such as patriarchy, sexual harassment, and the bond among women.

Being a public pitching event to introduce talented film projects to the film industryites including potential investors and producers, Pitch & Catch will run in two sections; narrative feature film and documentary film. During the submission period by the end of last January, 49 narrative feature projects and 19 documentary projects were received. Among these, 5 narrative feature projects and another 5 documentary projects were selected through the preliminaries. The final stage of ‘Pitch & Catch’ is held during the festival and open to film professionals and choice two best projects.

The 12th IWFFIS will launch the Network of Asian Women’s Film Festivals (NAWFF) inviting Taiwan Women’s Film Festival, Tokyo International Women’s Film Festival, and Chennai Samsung Women’s Film Festival as the founding members. These festivals each recommended one Asian woman director’s film produced within the past 2 years. Among the four films recommended, one film with new insight and future prospect about Asian women films will receive the NAWFF award.

The 12th IWFFIS will launch the Network of Asian Women’s Film Festivals (NAWFF) inviting Taiwan Women’s Film Festival, Tokyo International Women’s Film Festival, and Chennai Samsung Women’s Film Festival as the founding members. These festivals each recommended one Asian woman director’s film produced within the past 2 years. Among the four films recommended, one film with Intent on supporting the practices of feminism through filmmaking, the Women’s News Award is given to one of the collectives or individuals whose works are featured in the Polemics\'s on Film Section.

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