Barcelona Asian Film Festival Concludes "Xizang Panorama" with Railway Drama Kailing Ridge

BARCELONA, 26 October 2026 — The third edition of Xizang Panorama, a special section at the Barcelona Asian Film Festival dedicated to films from and about Xizang, wrapped on Sunday at Cinemes Girona with a screening of Kailing Ridge (dir. Liu Quanwei), followed by an online Q&A with the director.

The four-day programme (23–26 October) presented four films spanning ecology, youth, local memory and railway life on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau: Snow Leopards and Their Companions (Xi Zhilong), One Night and Three Summers (Tenzin Tsetan Choklay), Walking Potola (Guo Yifei), and Kailing Ridge (Liu Quanwei).

The closing day opened with "Conversaciones de Luz," a roundtable on local storytelling in Chinese and Spanish cinema. Adrià Guxens, professor and director at ESCAC, Venice Days selector and Sitges Film Festival jury secretary, joined Beijing University film scholar and screenwriter Liu Yiyi via video link. The two discussed how filmmakers approach landscape, memory and community across different cultural contexts.

In the afternoon, Kailing Ridge closed the series. Set at a railway signal station on the Qinghai-Tibet line, the film follows a veteran worker and his young apprentice across two generations maintaining the "Sky Road." Director Liu Quanwei joined the audience online from China after the screening, discussing the film's origins, high-altitude shooting and the portrayal of ordinary workers.

Three directors took part remotely in post-screening Q&As across the four days. On 23 October, wildlife photographer Xi Zhilong shared his approach to long-term ecological filming on the Plateau. On 25 October, Guo Yifei discussed documenting social change through personal narrative in Lhasa. On 24 October, Gao Hongyan, professor at Beijing Jiaotong University and former director of the Confucius Institute at Unicamp, Brazil, gave an online talk titled "Beyond Ethnographic Gaze: The Glocalisation of Xizang Cinema."

Alongside screenings, the organisers launched an "AI Creative Lab" with Dreamina AI, offering local filmmakers a hands-on workshop on integrating AI tools into production.

Xizang Panorama is organised by Barcelona Asian Film Festival, CCTV-6 (China Movie Channel), 1905.com and CCTV-6 Hangzhou Base. The section launched in 2024 and has since presented over a dozen films in Hangzhou, Barcelona and other cities.

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