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OPENING NIGHT FILM: LITTLE FOREST

Film OPENING NIGHT FILM: LITTLE FOREST Directed by Yim Soon-rye When Hye-won flees Seoul’s empty calories and daily humiliations, she returns to her rural town with a voracious…
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CENTERPIECE FILM: INVENTING TOMORROW

Film CENTERPIECE FILM: INVENTING TOMORROW Directed by Laura Nix Science mixes with young adult passion in this exhilarating dose of hope and Inspector Gadget genius. Teens from…
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CLOSING NIGHT FILM: RAMEN SHOP

Film CLOSING NIGHT FILM: RAMEN SHOP Directed by Eric Khoo A cinematic turducken of food movie wrapped in a love story marinated by Singapore’s multi-ethnic history. Two iconic…
Asian American Panorama

1985

Film 1985 Directed by Yen Tan It’s the Bible Belt during the AIDS crisis and Adrian is returning home for Xmas for possibly the…
Masters

3 FACES

Film 3 FACES Directed by Jafar Panahi Banned filmmaker Jafar Panahi (This is Not a Film) turns on his camera again, this time to probe…

Act of War – The Overthrow of the Hawaiian Nation

Film Act of War – The Overthrow of the Hawaiian Nation Directed by Joan Lander, Puhipau
Discoveries

ANOTE’S ARK

Film ANOTE’S ARK Directed by Matthieu Rytz Global warming, increasing typhoons, and rising tide levels threaten to submerge the Pacific Island nation Kiribati and 4,000…
Discoveries

ASAKO I & II

Film ASAKO I & II Directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi Asako’s first love is a fantasy lifted from the movies: he’s cruelly handsome, heart-stoppingly passionate. Two years later,…
Masters

ASH IS PUREST WHITE

Film ASH IS PUREST WHITE Directed by Jia Zhang-ke In the heat of panic, Qiao fires a gun to protect the man she loves. For him, she…
Asian American Panorama

AUGUST AT AKIKO’S

Film AUGUST AT AKIKO’S Directed by Christopher Makoto Yogi Saxophone in hand, Alex goes searching for his grandparents on the Big Island, only to discover they have…
Asian American Panorama

BETWEEN TIDES

Film BETWEEN TIDES Directed by Masa Fox As the Bonin Islands passed back and forth between US and Japan rule after WWII, for a young…
Asia Pop!

BIG BROTHER

Film BIG BROTHER Directed by Kam Ka-Wai Donnie Yen puts the danger in Dangerous Minds as the martial arts superstar plays a US Marine returning…
Asian American Panorama

THE BIG HOUSE

Film THE BIG HOUSE Directed by Alex Brenner, Audrey Meyers, Britty Bonine, Catie DeWitt, Daniel Kahn, Dylan Hancook, Hannah Noel, Jacob Rich, Kazuhiro Soda, Kevin Tocco, Markus Nornes, Rachael Kerr, Sarika Tyagi, Sean Moore, Terri Sarris, V. Prasad, Vesal Stoakley Endorphins flood the senses in this observational doc about UMich’s football stadium, which hosts a jaw-dropping 100,000 visitors.…
Asian American Panorama

BITTER MELON

Film BITTER MELON Directed by H.P. Mendoza A dark revenge comedy featuring a Filipino American family overcoming domestic violence demons with the worst son ever.…
Asian American Panorama

BLOWIN’ UP

Film BLOWIN’ UP Directed by Stephanie Wang-Breal Deep in Queens, Judge Toko Serita has created a courtroom remarkably uninterested in crime. A space where women…
Asian American Panorama

A BREAD FACTORY, PART ONE

Film A BREAD FACTORY, PART ONE Directed by Patrick Wang A multi-purpose arts space, run by an old couple and an omnipresent child projectionist, stands up against a…
Asian American Panorama

A BREAD FACTORY, PART TWO

Film A BREAD FACTORY, PART TWO Directed by Patrick Wang The threads, so precisely woven in Part One, start to show their seams in Part Two, and the…
Asia Pop!

BROTHER OF THE YEAR

Film BROTHER OF THE YEAR Directed by Vithaya Thongyuyong Jane and Chut are siblings filled with mutual hate since childhood. Now adults, Jane is super successful while…
Asian American Panorama

BUFFALO BOYS

Film BUFFALO BOYS Directed by Mike Wiluan Smoke-filled, action-packed, dust-covered Indonesian spin on the classic western. In the 19th century, American-born Indonesian gunslingers return to…
Asian American Panorama

CALL HER GANDA

Film CALL HER GANDA Directed by PJ Raval Transgender woman Jennifer Laude is found dead in a motel bathroom in the Philippines, last seen with an…
Asia Pop!

DEAD PIGS

Film DEAD PIGS Directed by Cathy Yan In a world where money is everything, how do you keep your soul? Based on true events, an…
Masters

DEAD SOULS

Film DEAD SOULS Directed by Wang Bing Survivors of China’s Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957-59 recount, with unflinching straightforwardness, the terrors of their imprisonment, the mundane…
Asia Pop!

DEAR EX

Film DEAR EX Directed by Chih-Yen Hsu, Mag Hsu Sanlian is left bewildered after her husband asks for a divorce and his sudden death reveals the beneficiary…
Masters

DETECTIVE DEE: THE FOUR HEAVENLY KINGS

Film DETECTIVE DEE: THE FOUR HEAVENLY KINGS Directed by Tsui Hark The Tang Dynasty’s most beloved sleuth returns to the big screen to outsmart secular and supernatural forces, while…