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76 DAYS

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Film 76 DAYS Directed by Hao Wu, Weixi Chen & Anonymous OPENING FILM - This miraculous documentary, set in Wuhan hospitals during the 76 days the city was on…
After Life

ARCHIVING TIME

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Film ARCHIVING TIME Directed by Lu Yuan-chi Film restorationists at the Taiwan Film Institute walk us through the process of re-discovering and re-juvenating a national…
Asia Pop!

ASSASSINS

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Film ASSASSINS Directed by Ryan White Perfect killers or accidental pawns? Real-life spy thriller as two women wipe a toxin on Kim Jong-un's brother's…
Asian American Panorama

SDAFF Drive-In! presents BE WATER

Film SDAFF Drive-In! presents BE WATER Directed by Bao Nguyen With interviews, outtakes, and glorious archival footage, a dynamic and crucial look at Bruce Lee as an icon,…
Asian American Panorama

THE CELINE ARCHIVE

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Film THE CELINE ARCHIVE Directed by Celine Parreñas Shimizu The ghost of one Celine haunts another as filmmaker Celine Parreñas Shimizu uncovers a 1932 Filipino-American community pushing,…
Asian American Panorama

CURTAIN UP!

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Film CURTAIN UP! Directed by Hui Tong, Kelly Ng Students at a NYC Chinatown elementary school work, play, and sing through a theatrical production of Frozen, while…
Jia Zhang-ke Artist Trilogy

DONG

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Film DONG Directed by Jia Zhang-ke A companion piece to Jia Zhang-ke’s monumental Still Life, Jia follows famed painter Liu Xiadong as he paints…
Asian American Panorama

THE DONUT KING

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Film THE DONUT KING Directed by Alice Gu Meet Ted Ngoy, the tenacious refugee behind the pink box who is single-handedly responsible for the fact that…
Special Presentations

DOWN A DARK STAIRWELL

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Film DOWN A DARK STAIRWELL Directed by Ursula Liang CENTERPIECE FILM - After the murder of the unarmed Akai Gurley by Peter Liang, a Chinese American cop,…
Asian American Panorama

EXPORT MY LOVE

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Film EXPORT MY LOVE Directed by Jinglin Li This cross-continental documentary follows Chinese-American Jany Murphy, part matchmaker, part modern day Cyrano de Bergerac, as she tries…
Asian American Panorama

FINDING YINGYING

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Film FINDING YINGYING Directed by Jiayan "Jenny" Shi In June 2017, Yingying Zhang, a Chinese visiting scholar, mysteriously vanished from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus.…
Masters

LOVE AND DEATH IN MONTMARTRE

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Film LOVE AND DEATH IN MONTMARTRE Directed by Evans Chan This fantasy romance/real-life documentary reveals the story, secrets, and longings of Qiu Miaojin, a lesbian Taiwanese writer who…
Invisible Waves

ME AND THE CULT LEADER

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Film ME AND THE CULT LEADER Directed by Atsushi Sakahara Twenty-five years later, a victim of the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack takes a long journey of reckoning…
Asia Pop!

MEMORIES TO CHOKE ON, DRINKS TO WASH THEM DOWN

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Film MEMORIES TO CHOKE ON, DRINKS TO WASH THEM DOWN Directed by Kate Reilly, Leung Ming Kai Four delightful vignettes capture the complex heart of Hong Kong as its people -- young and old, local…
Asian American Panorama

MU AND THE VANISHING WORLD

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Film MU AND THE VANISHING WORLD Directed by Jessica W. Leung, Paco Beltrán Mu, a Kayan woman from Myanmar, leaves her life as a tourist attraction in Thailand and resettles in…
Invisible Waves

THE REASON WHY I’M HOME.

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Film THE REASON WHY I’M HOME. Directed by Chang Ming Yu Chen-yun returns home for the first time in five years to deal with the fallout of her estranged…
Invisible Waves

STRAY

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Film STRAY Directed by Elizabeth Lo Filmed over two years, STRAY follows the resourceful and brave stray dogs of Istanbul. Charismatic mutt Zeytin mixes…
Jia Zhang-ke Artist Trilogy

SWIMMING OUT TILL THE SEA TURNS BLUE

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Film SWIMMING OUT TILL THE SEA TURNS BLUE Directed by Jia Zhang-ke Focusing on four authors spanning modern China, Jia Zhang-ke sketches literary culture onto a turbulent history, the rural…
Masters

A THOUSAND CUTS

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Film A THOUSAND CUTS Directed by Ramona S. Diaz Ramona Diaz's blistering look at investigative journalist Maria Ressa’s relentless stand against Duterte.
Jia Zhang-ke Artist Trilogy

USELESS

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Film USELESS Directed by Jia Zhang-ke Jia Zhang-ke’s ode to fashion–a textile factory, a designer, and a tailor–in a China where nothing is ever…
Masters

WE HAVE BOOTS

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