The Luang Prabang Film Festival 2016 (www.lpfilmfest.org) returns for the seventh time this Dec 2-7. The six-day event will shine a light on the best new ASEAN films.

Alongside three new Lao films, there will also be flicks from Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Philippines and Myanmar, whose City of Jade (2016), a documentary film following the country’s jade miners made by Myanmar-born Taiwanese director Midi Z, looks to be a particular highlight.

As the World Heritage town lacks a real cinema, the festival's main venue will be an outdoor screen at the Handicraft Market, the town’s main square, with events also held at Sofitel Luang Prabang, the newly rebranded five-star resort previously Hotel de la Paix. Room rates start at about B10,202.

The full list of the films include A Copy of My Mind (Indonesia), A Yellow Bird (Singapore), About a Woman (Indonesia), Apocalypse Child (Philippines), Back to the 90s (Thailand), Banana Pancakes and the Children of Sticky Rice (Laos), Before the Fall (Cambodia), Brutal (Malaysia), Cambodian Son (Cambodia), City of Jade (Myanmar), The Crescent Moon (Indonesia), Diamond Island (Cambodia), The Down (Thailand), Finding Phong (Vietnam), Fundamentally Happy (Singapore), Haze (Philippines), Joking Jazz 4G (Thailand), Khunpan (Thailand), Louis Loves Baitong (Laos), LOVE (Vietnam), Love Forever (Laos), Lovesucks (Thailand), Ma’Rosa (Philippines), May Who? (Thailand), Ola Bola (Malaysia), Question of Faith (Indonesia), The Return (Singapore), The River Flows (Laos), Senior (Thailand), Sweet Twenty (Vietnam), There’s No Forever (Philippines) Y/Our Music (Thailand).