Special Presentations

76 DAYS

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OPENING FILM - This miraculous documentary, set in Wuhan hospitals during the 76 days the city was on lockdown, is a powerful, unimaginable, harrowing, but deeply hopeful portrait of front-of-line workers improvising heroic emotional care.

Special Presentations

DOWN A DARK STAIRWELL

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CENTERPIECE FILM - After the murder of the unarmed Akai Gurley by Peter Liang, a Chinese American cop, factions turn out in the streets, some in support of Black lives, others claiming that an Asian rookie is a convenient scapegoat for a racist justice system.

Asia Pop!

SDAFF Drive-In! presents GET THE HELL OUT

In this horror comedy, a zombie outbreak unleashes mayhem on the Taiwan parliament and unlikely heroes emerge, as do blood and guts.

Asian American Panorama

DEFINITION PLEASE

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Other former Spelling Bee champs go on to glory. Monica Choudry hasn't left her mom's house. With her pesky brother, Monica learns to care for family–and herself.

Asian American Panorama

SDAFF Drive-In! presents BE WATER

With interviews, outtakes, and glorious archival footage, a dynamic and crucial look at Bruce Lee as an icon, actor, and Asian American.

Invisible Waves

LOST LOTUS

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STARTS TODAY! Wu Yu's life is overturned after her elderly mother is killed in a hit-and-run. Previously a young, secular school-teacher, she now dives into her mother's Buddhism, and sets off on a solitary mission to bring the killer to justice.

Asia Pop!

KIM JI-YOUNG, BORN 1982

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LAST CHANCE TO WATCH! ENDS TODAY! Some say she’s crazy. Maybe she’s possessed. There’s no simple explanation for Kim Ji-Young, a college grad turned stay-at-home mom. Acclaimed adaptation of Cho Nam-Joo’s best-selling novel and an ode to the unspoken yearnings of mothers and daughters.

Asian American Panorama

THE PAPER TIGERS

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In this action-comedy, coming-of-(middle)-age kung fu flick, three martial arts students reunite after decades apart to find what–or who–killed their sifu.

Asia Pop!

ASSASSINS

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Perfect killers or accidental pawns? Real-life spy thriller as two women wipe a toxin on Kim Jong-un's brother's face and disappear into the crowd.

Asia Pop!

MEMORIES TO CHOKE ON, DRINKS TO WASH THEM DOWN

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Four delightful vignettes capture the complex heart of Hong Kong as its people -- young and old, local and migrant -- wrestle with the past and look towards the future.

Masters

DAYS

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One man encounters another in Thailand. Tsai Ming-liang’s wordless meditation to the fleeting beauty of everyday details and the exquisite practice of looking and touching.

Masters

THERE IS NO EVIL

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* Limited tickets available. Golden Bear, 2020 Berlin International Film Festival Over the course of his two-decade career, independent...

Masters

UNDER THE OPEN SKY

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After being released from prison for a thirteen-year murder sentence, a former yakuza member is set on making an honest living and becoming a reformed citizen.

Masters

THE WOMAN WHO RAN

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Instead of focusing on his favorite subjects–drunken, listless Korean men–master filmmaker Hong Sang-soo flips the script and follows an ensemble of strong female characters as they search for peace in a world where patriarchal interruptions are ever-present.

Jia Zhang-ke Artist Trilogy

SWIMMING OUT TILL THE SEA TURNS BLUE

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Focusing on four authors spanning modern China, Jia Zhang-ke sketches literary culture onto a turbulent history, the rural landscape, and the faces of ordinary people.

Invisible Waves

BLACK MILK

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Wessi awakens taboo attractions and unruly impulses when she leaves her life in Germany to reunite with her sister, faraway in Mongolia.

After Life

THE CHESS GAME OF THE WIND

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The passing of a wealthy matriarch leaves conniving would-be heirs jockeying for power in this long-unavailable tale of mansion intrigue.

Special Presentations

MOGUL MOWGLI

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SCREENS FRI & SAT ONLY! CLOSING FILM - Riz Ahmed plays Zed, an up-and-coming rapper who suddenly falls ill with a mysterious affliction. With a world tour about to start, Zed wants to fight the illness, but instead fights inner demons related to family and identity.

Special Presentations

76 DAYS

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OPENING FILM - This miraculous documentary, set in Wuhan hospitals during the 76 days the city was on lockdown, is a powerful, unimaginable, harrowing, but deeply hopeful portrait of front-of-line workers improvising heroic emotional care.

Special Presentations

DOWN A DARK STAIRWELL

This rental is no longer available

CENTERPIECE FILM - After the murder of the unarmed Akai Gurley by Peter Liang, a Chinese American cop, factions turn out in the streets, some in support of Black lives, others claiming that an Asian rookie is a convenient scapegoat for a racist justice system.

Special Presentations

MOGUL MOWGLI

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SCREENS FRI & SAT ONLY! CLOSING FILM - Riz Ahmed plays Zed, an up-and-coming rapper who suddenly falls ill with a mysterious affliction. With a world tour about to start, Zed wants to fight the illness, but instead fights inner demons related to family and identity.

Asian American Panorama

SDAFF Drive-In! presents BE WATER

With interviews, outtakes, and glorious archival footage, a dynamic and crucial look at Bruce Lee as an icon, actor, and Asian American.

Asian American Panorama

THE CELINE ARCHIVE

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The ghost of one Celine haunts another as filmmaker Celine Parreñas Shimizu uncovers a 1932 Filipino-American community pushing, pulling, and ultimately burying one woman alive.

Asian American Panorama

CURTAIN UP!

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Students at a NYC Chinatown elementary school work, play, and sing through a theatrical production of Frozen, while reflecting on identity, race, and family expectations.

Asian American Panorama

DEATH OF NINTENDO

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This delightful and nostalgic coming-of-age film chronicles the crusades of a group of friends as they navigate growing up in 1990s Manila.

Asian American Panorama

DEFINITION PLEASE

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Other former Spelling Bee champs go on to glory. Monica Choudry hasn't left her mom's house. With her pesky brother, Monica learns to care for family–and herself.

Asian American Panorama

THE DONUT KING

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Meet Ted Ngoy, the tenacious refugee behind the pink box who is single-handedly responsible for the fact that nearly 80% of donut shops in the Los Angeles area are owned by Cambodian Americans.

Asian American Panorama

EXPORT MY LOVE

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This cross-continental documentary follows Chinese-American Jany Murphy, part matchmaker, part modern day Cyrano de Bergerac, as she tries to help three Chinese divorcees find American husbands.

Asian American Panorama

FINDING YINGYING

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In June 2017, Yingying Zhang, a Chinese visiting scholar, mysteriously vanished from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus. Soon after, her boyfriend and parents arrive in the US for reasons they never expected: to seek answers from a bewildered campus and a foreign criminal justice system.

Asian American Panorama

GYOPO

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With a French New Wave aesthetic and a killer Korean psychedelic rock soundtrack, a motley mix of Korean expats strut and skitter about in the thrum of Seoul’s famously bustling streetscapes.

Asian American Panorama

MU AND THE VANISHING WORLD

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Mu, a Kayan woman from Myanmar, leaves her life as a tourist attraction in Thailand and resettles in Bowling Green, Kentucky, where resettlement and single motherhood test her determination to forge her own path.

Asian American Panorama

THE PAPER TIGERS

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In this action-comedy, coming-of-(middle)-age kung fu flick, three martial arts students reunite after decades apart to find what–or who–killed their sifu.

Surrogate Valentine Trilogy

SURROGATE VALENTINE

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Goh scrapes by as an indie musician while chatterbox actor Danny shadows him from gig to gig, until an old high school crush suddenly appears and throws everything off.

Surrogate Valentine Trilogy

DAYLIGHT SAVINGS

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When a heartbroken Goh Nakamura love-clicks with fellow musician Yea-Ming Chen, he decides to test fate and find her in Las Vegas.

Surrogate Valentine Trilogy

I WILL MAKE YOU MINE

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Three women rethink their lives when their mutual ex saunters back into town in this musical continuation of the Surrogate Valentine trilogy.

Asia Pop!

ASSASSINS

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Perfect killers or accidental pawns? Real-life spy thriller as two women wipe a toxin on Kim Jong-un's brother's face and disappear into the crowd.

Asia Pop!

DRAMA QUEEN

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When a transgender woman witnesses a murder, she finds safety in...a beauty pageant! That is, until the villains send an assassin to meet her in the competition.

Asia Pop!

SDAFF Drive-In! presents GET THE HELL OUT

In this horror comedy, a zombie outbreak unleashes mayhem on the Taiwan parliament and unlikely heroes emerge, as do blood and guts.

Asia Pop!

IT FEELS SO GOOD

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With a wedding on the horizon, former lovers Ken and Naoko reunite and dip their toes into the libidinous limbo of a more carefree past.

Asia Pop!

KIM JI-YOUNG, BORN 1982

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LAST CHANCE TO WATCH! ENDS TODAY! Some say she’s crazy. Maybe she’s possessed. There’s no simple explanation for Kim Ji-Young, a college grad turned stay-at-home mom. Acclaimed adaptation of Cho Nam-Joo’s best-selling novel and an ode to the unspoken yearnings of mothers and daughters.

Asia Pop!

MEMORIES TO CHOKE ON, DRINKS TO WASH THEM DOWN

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Four delightful vignettes capture the complex heart of Hong Kong as its people -- young and old, local and migrant -- wrestle with the past and look towards the future.

Asia Pop!

MY PRINCE EDWARD

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Her boyfriend's proposed. Now Fong needs to get out of a secret marriage but her fake husband has got the wheels turning.

Asia Pop!

PROJECT DREAMS – HOW TO BUILD MAZINGER Z’S HANGAR

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Workplace comedy meets mecha anime, when an overzealous marketing director comes up with a plan to construct the iconic hangar from the anime Mazinger Z, the PR team gets roped into a wild and bureaucratic ride to achieve an otaku pipe dream.

Asia Pop!

WILD SWORDS

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Tense hunt between a faceless foe and a disappeared swordsman from two bitterly feuding sects, in this ravishing indie wuxia film.

Masters

ALL THE THINGS WE NEVER SAID

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Atsuhisa’s quiet life is shattered when he catches his wife with another man. A series of tragic events force him to break through his silence to fight for his daughter.

Masters

AFTER MY HOMECOMING

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Playing a fictionalized version of herself, actress Kasumi Arimura visits her mother at home on her unexpected day off.

Masters

CHASING DREAM

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MMA fighter Tiger decides to help aspiring pop star Cuckoo get onto a singing show and destroy her ex-boyfriend, a celebrity judge and song thief. Johnny To is at it again, in this action and ballad-packed film filled with ringside fights, hot pot, celebrity culture, musicals, and much, much, much…

Masters

DAYS

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One man encounters another in Thailand. Tsai Ming-liang’s wordless meditation to the fleeting beauty of everyday details and the exquisite practice of looking and touching.

Masters

GENUS PAN

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In Lav Diaz’s scathing allegory for mankind’s innate cruelty, three Filipino miners travel back to their island home and find nothing but menace, corruption, and traumatic memories lingering in the dense forest terrain.

Masters

LOVE AND DEATH IN MONTMARTRE

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This fantasy romance/real-life documentary reveals the story, secrets, and longings of Qiu Miaojin, a lesbian Taiwanese writer who journeys to Paris in search of a love story and ends up writing her own.

Masters

MEKONG 2030

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Five filmmakers speculate existence along the Mekong River Delta ten years into the future, as man-made development projects and climate change threaten the river’s ecological function.

Masters

THERE IS NO EVIL

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* Limited tickets available. Golden Bear, 2020 Berlin International Film Festival Over the course of his two-decade career, independent...

Masters

A THOUSAND CUTS

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Ramona Diaz's blistering look at investigative journalist Maria Ressa’s relentless stand against Duterte.

Masters

UNDER THE OPEN SKY

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After being released from prison for a thirteen-year murder sentence, a former yakuza member is set on making an honest living and becoming a reformed citizen.

Masters

WE HAVE BOOTS

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Immediately after the feature, ticket holders can enjoy a pre-recorded bonus Q&A with director Evans Chan and film subject Alex Chow!...

Masters

THE WOMAN WHO RAN

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Instead of focusing on his favorite subjects–drunken, listless Korean men–master filmmaker Hong Sang-soo flips the script and follows an ensemble of strong female characters as they search for peace in a world where patriarchal interruptions are ever-present.

Jia Zhang-ke Artist Trilogy

DONG

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A companion piece to Jia Zhang-ke’s monumental Still Life, Jia follows famed painter Liu Xiadong as he paints laborers demolishing their hometown for the Three Gorges Dam project.

Jia Zhang-ke Artist Trilogy

USELESS

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Jia Zhang-ke’s ode to fashion–a textile factory, a designer, and a tailor–in a China where nothing is ever as it seems.

Jia Zhang-ke Artist Trilogy

SWIMMING OUT TILL THE SEA TURNS BLUE

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Focusing on four authors spanning modern China, Jia Zhang-ke sketches literary culture onto a turbulent history, the rural landscape, and the faces of ordinary people.

Invisible Waves

BLACK MILK

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Wessi awakens taboo attractions and unruly impulses when she leaves her life in Germany to reunite with her sister, faraway in Mongolia.

Invisible Waves

ME AND THE CULT LEADER

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Twenty-five years later, a victim of the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack takes a long journey of reckoning with the head of the doomsday cult responsible for his lifelong injuries.

Invisible Waves

GAMAK GHAR

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Immediately after the feature, ticket holders can enjoy a pre-recorded bonus Q&A with director Achal Mishra! New Voices in India Cinema Award,...

Invisible Waves

LOST LOTUS

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STARTS TODAY! Wu Yu's life is overturned after her elderly mother is killed in a hit-and-run. Previously a young, secular school-teacher, she now dives into her mother's Buddhism, and sets off on a solitary mission to bring the killer to justice.

Invisible Waves

NOBODY

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A strange, elderly tailor with secrets befriends a young girl intent on exposing her unfaithful father in this sensitive portrait of public and private life.

Invisible Waves

THE REASON WHY I’M HOME.

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Chen-yun returns home for the first time in five years to deal with the fallout of her estranged mother’s deep involvement in a cult after it leads to her younger brother’s violent death.

Invisible Waves

STRAY

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Filmed over two years, STRAY follows the resourceful and brave stray dogs of Istanbul. Charismatic mutt Zeytin mixes gentleness with street smarts while navigating a network of humans and animals, itself a rich, ever-changing map of Istanbul’s overlooked and invisible.

After Life

ARCHIVING TIME

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Film restorationists at the Taiwan Film Institute walk us through the process of re-discovering and re-juvenating a national cinema.

After Life

THE CHESS GAME OF THE WIND

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The passing of a wealthy matriarch leaves conniving would-be heirs jockeying for power in this long-unavailable tale of mansion intrigue.

After Life

THE HUSBAND’S SECRET

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A husband can't tell his wife that her old classmate is his ex-lover, in this fiery Taiwanese-language melodrama.

After Life

LETTER TO AN ANGEL

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Roped into a fashion shoot in search of the “exotic,” a young Indonesian boy receives a Polaroid camera and sparks trouble on the island of Sumba.

After Life

MAURI

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A man with an unsettled past and a matriarch with a sixth sense for change face the irreversable in a once-thriving Maori community.

After Life

MISTERYO SA TUWA

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If a plane crashes in a remote mountain, will anybody notice if villagers loot the wreckage? Or perhaps power will clash with greed, inciting a cycle of deception and a delicious moral thriller.

Shorts

SHORTS: BE/LONGING

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Shorts that probe the soft spots of belonging-to and longing-for a place in the world.

Shorts

SHORTS: ECHOPLEX

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Inventive films that change the format and spin the artifacts, annals, and echoes of all that’s left behind.

Shorts

SHORTS: HORMONAL DREAM

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Shorts that swim in body chemistry.

Shorts

SHORTS: HUMAN RESOURCES

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Heroic feats, chilling power plays, and surreal misbehaviors while on the job.

Shorts

SHORTS: MALL RAT

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Inhale the smell of teen spirit from Michelle Kwan fandom, bank robberies, and monsters-in-the-making.

Shorts

SHORTS: QUEER SHAPES

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Three shorts that queer the shape of filmmaking into audacious new forms.

Shorts

SHORTS: REEL VOICES

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Nine filmmakers, nine stories exploring filmmaking from the teen perspective. From our Reel Voices documentary filmmaking program.

Shorts

SHORTS: TAIWAN <‐> AMERICA

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Americans in Taiwan, Taiwanese in America, and all the messy, awkward, and sentimental combinations of familial and cinematic border-crossing at the intersection of ABTs and ah-ma's.

Shorts

SHORTS: TIGHT QUARTERS

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When social distance becomes social compression, these narratives find a way out.

Shorts

SHORTS: WE ARE IN A DIGITAL HELL

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Shorts that can only exist in the recesses of the remix and the weird underbelly of the digital.