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A Dog’s Story
Film
A Dog’s Story
Directed by Jill D'Agnenica
Claymation meets slideshow as the arc of a dog's rise and fall from badass guard dog to Chardonnay…
About A Short Film
Film
About A Short Film
Directed by Kevin Yee
Here’s the short of it: comedian Kevin Yee made a short film about making a short film.
Baichi and The Three Blind Rats
Film
Baichi and The Three Blind Rats
Directed by Jeff Fong
A kung fu gang, a garage, and three soon to be sniveling rats.
Bloom
Film
Bloom
Directed by Melissa Ruiz
Two best friends talk beauty within themselves, media, and culture. They explore how they have grown from conforming…
Brush: A Fox Tale
Film
Brush: A Fox Tale
Directed by Faustina Arriola, Willi Anton
When a fox subconsciously paints his lovely next door neighbor with his tail, a couple of friends get…
Asian American Panorama
THE CANCER JOURNALS REVISITED
Film
THE CANCER JOURNALS REVISITED
Directed by Lana Lin
In this deeply stirring and exploratory film, 27 women revisit the 1980 memoir The Cancer Journals, by legendary…
Cherry
Film
Cherry
Directed by Eugene Kim
It’s Daly City in the 90s and the Sanrio vibe is heavy. Christian can’t catch a break all…
Childhood
Film
Childhood
Directed by Sumedh Neelakanti
Three friends share their stories about elementary school and reflect how childhood impacted their lives.
Asian American Panorama
CHINATOWN RISING
Film
CHINATOWN RISING
Directed by Harry Chuck, Josh Chuck
ENCORE SCREENING - 20,000 feet of film gathering dust in Harry Chuck’s garage is now an electrifying documentary,…
Clam Dog
Film
Clam Dog
Directed by Jeannie Nguyen
A fast food worker pulls a hot dog out of her vagina. Now a food deliverer is tasked…
Asian American Canon
COLMA: THE MUSICAL
Film
COLMA: THE MUSICAL
Directed by Richard Wong
Director's Cut. The sleepy cemetery city of Colma is no haven for gays, artists, and dreamers. What better…
Asian American Panorama
COME AS YOU ARE
Film
COME AS YOU ARE
Directed by Richard Wong
How will two men in wheelchairs and one blind guy get to a Canadian “special needs” brothel to…
Convalescent
Film
Convalescent
Directed by Cassondra Flanery
Three teens discuss their mental health journey and how it’s impacted their lives, family, and growth.
Cuba Scalds His Hand
Film
Cuba Scalds His Hand
Directed by Abby Sun & Daniel Garber
Verite vignette bursts with a Latino, Japanese truck-driving, wrist-burning wrangler named Cuba.
Cul-De-Sac
Film
Cul-De-Sac
Directed by Cara Lawson
Taut window into postpartum for one new mother who hallucinates about killing her baby, while keeping up appearances…
Daughters
Film
Daughters
Directed by Roxy Morris
Adopted immigrants open up about their experiences with international adoption, finding identity, and redefine the typical American family.
Détourning Asia/America with Valerie Soe
Film
Détourning Asia/America with Valerie Soe
Directed by Mila Zuo
Eavesdrop on this snappy video chat between artists Valerie Soe and Mila Zuo as they discuss radical appropriations…
Distancing
Film
Distancing
Directed by Miko Revereza
Footprints home for an undocumented Filipino American, rendered through blurry eyes and DVD rips.
Asian American Panorama
DRIVEWAYS
Film
DRIVEWAYS
Directed by Andrew Ahn
While cleaning out the house of her late estranged sister, Kathy (played by the great Hong Chau) finds…
Due
Film
Due
Directed by Anna Mikami
A young undocumented couple in love are on the run after an innocent night escalates out of their…
Asian American Panorama
EMPTY BY DESIGN
Film
EMPTY BY DESIGN
Directed by Andrea A Walter
Feeling foreign in a country that is supposed to be home, a lonely stuntman and broken hearted grad…
Fayettenam
Film
Fayettenam
Directed by Gerald Ding
Biracial Muay Thai fighter tries to go pro while fighting demons of the Korean mom who abandoned her.
First
Film
First
Directed by Daniel Chew, Micaela Durand
A trip that gives that peculiar internet feeling… without the internet. Follow the bored desires of a teen…
Flo’s Bus
Film
Flo’s Bus
Directed by Dean Ishida
The last trip for Flo, a 77-year-old Hawaii-born, Japanese American woman who organizes bus trips to Vegas for…
Fran This Summer
Film
Fran This Summer
Directed by Mary Evangelista
Summer love and mixed emotions swirl for a teenage couple whose other half wishes to transition.
Asian American Panorama
GEOGRAPHIES OF KINSHIP
Film
GEOGRAPHIES OF KINSHIP
Directed by Deann Borshay Liem
Thirty years after the Korean War, South Korea emerged as the leader in international adoption, despite a flourishing…
Gummy Power
Film
Gummy Power
Directed by Brian Cheng
The most epic duel ever to feature gummy bears.
Hae Hawaiʻi
Film
Hae Hawaiʻi
Directed by Ty Sanga
A thrilling counter-narrative set during the days of the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy and US annexation.…
Hieu
Film
Hieu
Directed by Richard Van
A portrait of grace in spite of aching failure, preternaturally cheerful Hieu chases the fantasy of convincing others–whether…
Asia Pop!
HOPE FROZEN
Film
HOPE FROZEN
Directed by Pailin Wedel
A riveting look at the Naovaratpongs, a family who cryogenically preserved their daughter in the hopes of reviving…
Hungry Ghost
Film
Hungry Ghost
Directed by Benjamin Eckersley
An overseas Chinese and Hong Konger do all the things visitors do–eat, take pictures, bicker, while unbeknownst to…
I Think She Likes You
Film
I Think She Likes You
Directed by Bridey Elliott
Jake thinks he's in for a hot night with two young women, but it’s not quite the threesome…
In Full Bloom
Film
In Full Bloom
Directed by Maegan Houang
A mysterious trio of worms opens up a sinkhole that threatens to suck up everything in an old…
Asian American Canon
IN THE FAMILY
Film
IN THE FAMILY
Directed by Patrick Wang
Undeterred by bigotry and armed with nothing but decency and the help of good friends, Joey faces an…
Asian American Panorama
IN THE LAND OF LOST ANGELS
Film
IN THE LAND OF LOST ANGELS
Directed by Bishrel Mashbat
When two Mongolian American friends in LA need to get rich quick, their plan to ransom a wealthy…
Intermission
Film
Intermission
Directed by Amiahlina Figueroa
In an apartment building in San Diego, a Chinese couple, a Japanese mom, and a Mexican security guard…
Invincible Boy
Film
Invincible Boy
Directed by Julian Park
A young comic book nerd aspires to be a superhero in this inspiring tale of friendship and heroism.
Asian American Panorama
JADDOLAND
Film
JADDOLAND
Directed by Nadia Shihab
Filmmaker Nadia Shihab’s smart, inquisitive, and tender look at her mother, Lahib Jaddo, a prolific Iraqi artist living…
Jeremiah
Film
Jeremiah
Directed by Kenya Gillespie
A high school football player confronts his deepest fears after an encounter with a mysterious figure.
Asian American Panorama
JERONIMO
Film
JERONIMO
Directed by Joseph Juhn
An encounter with a taxi driver unearths the little-known history of Koreans trafficked to Latin America and the…
Jesa
Film
Jesa
Directed by Kyungwon Song
A filmmaker’s parents' vastly different feelings about the traditional Korean memorial ceremony are humorously captured in stop motion.
Kaaway (Enemy)
Film
Kaaway (Enemy)
Directed by Wester Demandante
Two young boys, one Fil Am and one from the Philippines, get in a fight only to be…
Kālewa
Film
Kālewa
Directed by Mitchel Viernes
While painful memories play back of a family rift during his last night on Earth, a Hawaiian astronaut…
Kid Sister
Film
Kid Sister
Directed by Ysabella Smiley
In this love letter to childhood fantasies, a born entertainer uses her love of performing to honor her…
Kiss of the Rabbit God
Film
Kiss of the Rabbit God
Directed by Andrew Thomas Huang
A Chinese restaurant worker falls in love with a Qing dynasty god, who takes him on a journey…
Last Taxi Dance
Film
Last Taxi Dance
Directed by Brayden Yoder
As idyllic Hawaiian songs reveal hidden resistance, a taxi dance hall sets the stage for a tense encounter…
Leotard
Film
Leotard
Directed by Stephanie Cheng
In a series of captivating but strangely off-putting encounters, a young ballerina and all her bodily sensations awaken…
Lighthouse
Film
Lighthouse
Directed by Sining Xiang
It’s dog-eat-dog in this school of brutal and rich international Chinese students, as one student does anything she…
Asian American Panorama
LINGUA FRANCA
Film
LINGUA FRANCA
Directed by Isabel Sandoval
Director and lead actress Isabel Sandoval ignites the screen with this tense drama about an undocumented Filipina transwoman…
Lotus
Film
Lotus
Directed by Beibei Xu
When a goody two-shoes teenager walks on the wild side, she loses the lucky jade bracelet her Buddhist…
Asian American Panorama
LOVE BOAT: TAIWAN
Film
LOVE BOAT: TAIWAN
Directed by Valerie Soe
Since the 1960s, the Taiwan government has hosted summer culture camps for young overseas Chinese. But “Love Boat,”…
Lucky Girl
Film
Lucky Girl
Directed by Sidi Wang
An 8-year-old Chinese adoptee treads water in a swimming pool of disorientation and identity after meeting her Chinese…
Asian American Panorama
LUCKY GRANDMA
Film
LUCKY GRANDMA
Directed by Sasie Sealy
Grandma Wong can’t stand the idea of leaving her Chinatown apartment and moving in to her son’s posh…
Lucky’s
Film
Lucky’s
Directed by Teddy Ninh
Memories of a dad’s Chinese food truck collide with the strange synthetic prisms of 3D animation.
Made with Love
Film
Made with Love
Directed by Sophia Lee
Stories from the owners of three Korean inspired restaurants in Convoy about how food brings families together.
Manila is Full of Men Named Boy
Film
Manila is Full of Men Named Boy
Directed by Andrew Stephen Lee
A man from the States desperate to impress his father in the Philippines, hires a moody boy to…
Marching On
Film
Marching On
Directed by Matthew Nazloo
Music, marching, and drumming. All parts of Marching Band, but what most people don't know, is that there…
Master of Divinity
Film
Master of Divinity
Directed by Eugene Suen
When his wife announces that God wants her to quit her job, a struggling filmmaker panics.
Mortis
Film
Mortis
Directed by Xindi Lou
A night on the job turns agonizing when a closeted autopsy assistant finds a familiar body on his…
My American Surrogate
Film
My American Surrogate
Directed by Leslie Tai
Somewhere in Irvine, CA, QiQi is social media’s most sought after surrogacy broker. Flipping American ideas of consumer…
Asian American Panorama
NO DATA PLAN
Film
NO DATA PLAN
Directed by Miko Revereza
Digital camera in tow, filmmaker Miko Revereza travels by train across the United States capturing fleeting conversations between…
Special Presentations
THE PARADISE WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Film
THE PARADISE WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Directed by Joseph Mangat, Norbert Shieh, Quyên Nguyen-Le, R.J. Lozada
ENCORE SCREENING Tues 11/12 @ 5p! San Diego has been called many things – including a paradise. It’s…
Pepper
Film
Pepper
Directed by Jayil Pak
Preference for male children is thrown upside down when a Korean birth goddess in a maternity ward encounters…
PINK SLIME CAESAR SHIFT: Proposal 2
Film
PINK SLIME CAESAR SHIFT: Proposal 2
Directed by Jen Liu
A speculative proposal to solve meat shortage and labor exploitation in South China: secretly inject labor activism documents…
Discoveries
PRESENT. PERFECT.
Film
PRESENT. PERFECT.
Directed by Shengzhe Zhu
Shengzhe Zhu takes a deep dive into the phenomena of DIY live-streaming in China and emerges with a…
Prom Time!
Film
Prom Time!
Directed by Jessica Liu
Two sisters talk about prom sex while their mother accidentally takes some of her home-grown aphrodisiac in a…
Quince
Film
Quince
Directed by Arianna Washington
Quince reflects on the different perspectives of the familial, social, and cultural pressures on teens to have a…
Asian American Canon
REFUGEE
Film
REFUGEE
Directed by Spencer Nakasako
Three young Cambodian American men who grew up in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district take a trip to Cambodia…
Asian American Panorama
RITUALS OF RESISTANCE
Film
RITUALS OF RESISTANCE
Directed by Joy Dietrich, Tenzin Phuntsog
A stunning journey from India to San Diego portrays three generations of Tibetans in exile who adopt wildly…
Salaam
Film
Salaam
Directed by Daud Abdinasir
A documentary exploring three perspectives of Muslim American Teenagers.
Asian American Canon
SAVING FACE
Film
SAVING FACE
Directed by Alice Wu
Surgeon Wil, a closeted lesbian, must suddenly take in her pregnant, unwed mother as a roommate, while hiding…
Scenes From a Real Marriage: I am Marissa
Film
Scenes From a Real Marriage: I am Marissa
Directed by Michelle Krusiec
Marissa and Mark haven’t had sex for a year. Now, they’re back in couples counseling for the third…
Asian American Panorama
SEADRIFT
Film
SEADRIFT
Directed by Tim Tsai
Investigating a sensational courtroom case, KKK targeting, and the capacity for reconciliation years later, director Tim Tsai revisits…
Shattered
Film
Shattered
Directed by Suyoung Jang
Don’t conform to the male mold. Let’s SHATTER the glass...wall!
Signal
Film
Signal
Directed by Chloé Hung
After finding an abandoned home in a post-apocalyptic future, a young couple is conflicted between staying isolated in…
Sister
Film
Sister
Directed by Siqi Song
Gorgeous felted stop-motion animation dedicated to the what if’s in life and the siblings we never had.
Snakeskin
Film
Snakeskin
Directed by Grace Zhang
A young girl’s stress from her parent’s financial situation emerges as a horrible skin condition.
Stay Awake, Be Ready
Film
Stay Awake, Be Ready
Directed by Pham Thien An
A motorcycle accident, a boy who eats fire, three friends perched by a street stall. The night is…
Special Presentations
STRAIGHT UP
Film
STRAIGHT UP
Directed by James Sweeney
Todd is a gay man in his 20's, and his love life is absolutely dead. His OCD fear…
Asian American Panorama
STRAY DOLLS
Film
STRAY DOLLS
Directed by Sonejuhi Sinha
Riz left a secret life in India only to end up cleaning rooms at a sketchy motel in…
Asian American Panorama
SUNRISE/SUNSET
Film
SUNRISE/SUNSET
Directed by Ougie Pak
Yeon Jae visits Min Suk in New York City, hoping to pick up the teenage romance where it…
Suzie Wrong
Film
Suzie Wrong
Directed by Stacie Gancayco-Adlao
Get your pumps on and your eyeliner on point. Start swiping right and remember to shut down racist…
Sworded Love
Film
Sworded Love
Directed by Tina Takemoto
Painstaking scraping and nail polish transform a wuxia fight from an abandoned reel of celluloid into fleeting homoerotic…
Table Stakes
Film
Table Stakes
Directed by Khai Thu Nguyen
On the very edge of subculture, two Black comic book writers try to make it in the independent…
Taiwanese Cha Cha Cha
Film
Taiwanese Cha Cha Cha
Directed by YuHui (Judie) Yang
A young woman defies her mother by visiting her grandpa in the countryside, with a spunky Taiwanese interpreter…
The Coin
Film
The Coin
Directed by Siqi Song
A felted stop-motion world sets the stage for a young woman searching for her jar of lucky Chinese…
The Mask from Home
Film
The Mask from Home
Directed by Jordan Hwang
The daughter of a Peking Opera dancer is the new kid at an American school, along with a…
The Moon and The Night
Film
The Moon and The Night
Directed by Erin Lau
Set in rural Hawai’i, Mahina is faced with a difficult decision when she realizes her beloved pit bull…
The Pit Where We Were Born
Film
The Pit Where We Were Born
Directed by Alexander Bocchieri
When a son returns from prison unannounced, he surprises his father digging an imu pit to celebrate his…
The Wheel Turns
Film
The Wheel Turns
Directed by Sang Joon Kim
When a subway driver falls into the mind-numbing routine of a life, a trippy frog-induced awakening may have…
Umbilical
Film
Umbilical
Directed by Danski Tang
Through striking visuals, a Chinese mother and daughter reassess their lives, uncovering in a beautifully candid conversation what…
Unspoken
Film
Unspoken
Directed by Patrick G. Lee
Six queer and trans Asian Americans grapple with their identities, while considering what family acceptance might look like.
Water Melts
Film
Water Melts
Directed by Lilian Mehrel, Mary Evangelista
In this touching portrait of romance and healing, beachgoers experience a temporary space between life and death that…
Discoveries
WHAT WE LEFT UNFINISHED
Film
WHAT WE LEFT UNFINISHED
Directed by Mariam Ghani
Long thought disappeared, five unfinished films reveal the scrappy directors and studios who persisted amidst the whims and…
Woodside
Film
Woodside
Directed by Vicente Roxas
A young typhoon survivor sees his dead parents everywhere, is a little obsessed with CPR, and practices slow…
Asian American Panorama
YELLOW ROSE
Film
YELLOW ROSE
Directed by Diane Paragas
Country musical meets immigration road story as 17-year-old undocumented Rose chases music stardom while looking over her shoulder…
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