He said leaders must embrace the inevitable
Asian future -- a megaregion home to more than half of humanity that is coming together and reshaping the entire planet in the process.
The more time we spend focusing on how to embrace the inevitable
Asian future, the healthier it will be for the Gulf region," he added.
Here, there was a focus on Southeast Asian films with music as their binding theme the
Asian Future section highlighting emerging directors across Asia (including Filipino filmmaker Perci Intalan who presented Distance) and another Asian Three-Fold Mirror which brought together directors from Japan, China, and Indonesia.
Although there is no Filipino film in the main tilt, Perci Intalan's domestic drama 'Distance' is vying for top honors in
Asian Future, the section dedicated to the region's emerging cinema talents.
The film made its way to the 29th Tokyo International Film Festival where it hailed as the Best Picture award in the
Asian Future Film section and as the Oscar selection for the Philippines in 2017.
Fuhrmann argues that in Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan, Thailand is often regarded in nostalgic terms as embodying a different Asian modernity that provides 'a proximate-distant reservoir of the modern occult [which] holds out the promise that there can still be magic in an
Asian future' (p.
It won the Best
Asian Future Film award at the Tokyo International Film Festival in 2016.
The initiative's innovative approach takes advantage of Southeast Asia's "youth bulge" and works with a new generation to move beyond old attitudes and habits for a more dynamic and integrated US-Southeast
Asian future. With 500 Southeast Asian students and professionals coming to the US under the program each year, the initiative's academic fellows form long-term relations through participating in academic, leadership and community service institutes with peers at universities and colleges across America.
The Russian diplomats and think tanks are following another extreme: they have a very pessimistic view of Central
Asian future, consider those post-Soviet states as too weak, and ready to fall.
THe 22-year-old curly-haired young footballer is a rising sports-star in the region - FIFA named him one of the most promising
Asian future players in 2013 and ESPN FC placed him first among its top 10 Asian players in 2012.
"We need to look to an inter-related South
Asian future where trade and cross border links flourish and bring prosperity to all our people.