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CinemAsia Film Festival (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) is a leading Asian film festival in Europe. The first edition of CinemAsia was in 2004 and started as a biannual film festival. Since 2012 the festival is an annual film festival held in March. The festival has a focus on independent Asian films and the film program consists of the best and most recent fiction and documentary in all genres from Asia. In this way the festival enhances the Asian visibility in culture and media. The most famous awards of the festival are the Audience Award and the Jury Award.

When the San Francisco-born, Hong Kong-raised director Doris Yeung moved to Amsterdam in 2002, she immediately started looking for ways to positively contribute to Asian culture in The Netherlands. Less than a year later, CinemAsia saw its inception, and in March 2004, the very first edition of the new, biannual film festival saw the light in Amsterdam's Rialto film theater. Screening 29 films from 12 countries over the span of 5 days, and with an added focus on Asian diaspora and queer cinema, the first edition of the CinemAsia Film Festival was an instant success. The festival was immediately lauded for the way it managed to intimately introduce new audiences to the world of Asian cinema, positively reshaping the Dutch collective consciousness about the continent in the process. In 2006 Yeung created the CinemAsia FilmLAB program to give young Asian talent the opportunity to make their own stories into films and to enable them to see their realities reflected on screen come true. 2012 marked the year that the CinemAsia Film Festival went annual, having outgrown their biannual programming and locations like De Ketelhuis. As the festival's size, popularity and frequency grew, so did its ability to offer talented new filmmakers a creative platform and provide Dutch audiences with the best Asian cinema has to offer. In the past years CinemAsia had different locations in Amsterdam. During a long time the main location of the festival was film theatre Kriterion and since 2020 the new main location is Studio/K. Since the beginning film theatre Rialto has always been one of the locations of the festival. In the time between the editions of the festivals, CinemAsia held different theme events during the year. The theme of the event depends on an actual topic, a historical topic or a new experimental event. Today, CinemAsia is internationally renowned for its broad yet focused selection of Asian independent films, documentaries, shorts, arthouse films and commercial blockbusters.