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Special Presentations
CLOSING NIGHT FILM: RAMEN SHOP
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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…
A FAREWELL
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A FAREWELL
Directed by Yifei He
After his death, young Han Chinese woman explores her grandfather's Muslim faith, turning heads and revealing neglected family…
Masters
ASH IS PUREST WHITE
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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
BLOWIN’ UP
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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…
Asia Pop!
DEAD PIGS
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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
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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
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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
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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…
DOWN THERE
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DOWN THERE
Directed by Zhengfan Yang
Mysterious sounds trigger cruel indifference, reluctant concern, and more in this mesmerizing and thrilling view outside the rear…
Masters
A FAMILY TOUR
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A FAMILY TOUR
Directed by Ying Liang
A dissident Chinese filmmaker exiled in Hong Kong finds a way for her young son to meet the…
Discoveries
FATHER TO SON
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FATHER TO SON
Directed by Hsiao Ya-Chuan
Taiwan’s emerald alleyways and small town merchants are the backdrop for this meditative drama intertwining several families with…
FINDING HOME
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FINDING HOME
Directed by Abraham Troen
A revealing look at the journey of Brandon, who gave up family, friends, and a job in China…
Discoveries
GIRLS ALWAYS HAPPY
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GIRLS ALWAYS HAPPY
Directed by Yang Mingming
Director-actor Yang Mingming’s feisty new feature pits the cranky crackling wits of mother and daughter, both struggling writers…
GOOD HANDS GOOD FEET
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GOOD HANDS GOOD FEET
Directed by Marshall Law
Coffee in a sling, cat in a cone, $30M for a feet job – what more does one…
Asia Pop!
HOW LONG WILL I LOVE U
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HOW LONG WILL I LOVE U
Directed by Su Lun
In this time traveling screwball romcom, bootstrapped strangers Xiao and Lu wake up in the same bed, toggling…
JIEJIE
Film
JIEJIE
Directed by Feng I Fiona Roan
Lice sets the tense stage for a recently immigrated single mother and two daughters, who bicker and boil…
Asia Pop!
A LAND IMAGINED
Film
A LAND IMAGINED
Directed by Yeo Siew Hua
In this breathtaking Singaporean noir, the black heart of the criminal underworld isn’t drugs but sand, used to…
Asian American Panorama
LATE LIFE: THE CHIEN-MING WANG STORY
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LATE LIFE: THE CHIEN-MING WANG STORY
Directed by Frank W Chen
Former New York Yankees pitcher and “Pride of Taiwan,” Chien-Ming Wang, finds himself without a job in Major…
LILY’S PAIN STORE
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LILY’S PAIN STORE
Directed by Chen Li
When a stylish shopgirl in Beijing becomes obsessed with a neighborhood "Pain Store" selling artisanal torture tinctures, experiments…
Asia Pop!
MEN ON THE DRAGON
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MEN ON THE DRAGON
Directed by Sunny Chan
Lacking teamwork, Andy Lau tickets, and muscle tone in general, four aging telecom workers jump into a dragon…
NAI NAI
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NAI NAI
Directed by Wyatt Wu
An embedded camera lives with the filmmaker’s grandma, riveting us with her strong will, electric scenes of reckoning,…
ONE LAST TASTE
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ONE LAST TASTE
Directed by Yucong Chen
The bittersweet taste of the last bite of your grandma’s dumplings.
SUMMER ORANGE
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SUMMER ORANGE
Directed by Chen Xu
A delicate love pentagon with filmmaking, as a Chinese director struggles to shoot a film in the US,…
Discoveries
TEN YEARS TAIWAN
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TEN YEARS TAIWAN
Directed by Hsieh Pei-Ju, Kek Huat Lau, Lekal Sumi Cilangasan, Lu Po-Shun, Rina B. Tsou
Cloaked in poetic sci-fi, mockumentary and high style, five up-and-coming filmmakers depict in futuristic terms the fallout from…
Asia Pop!
XIAO MEI
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XIAO MEI
Directed by Maren Hwang
Nine points of view filmed as nine different genres make up this ambitious portrait of a young elusive…
Special Presentations
MOON FASCINATING, BIRD SWEET
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MOON FASCINATING, BIRD SWEET
Directed by Richard Chen Yao-Chi
CELLULOID JUKEBOX This program features two of director Richard Chen’s landmark films of youth in Taiwan. A newly-restored…
Special Presentations
THE TRAIN HAMASEN
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THE TRAIN HAMASEN
Directed by Lai Kuan-Yuan
VIRTUAL REALITY Overlapping various eras and bringing together different corners of ethnic life, this innovative VR piece is…
Special Presentations
YOUR SPIRITUAL TEMPLE SUCKS
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YOUR SPIRITUAL TEMPLE SUCKS
Directed by John Hsu
VIRTUAL REALITY Traditional beliefs and new technologies clash in this hilarious short about a man who's told by…
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