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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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SHORTS: QUEER SHAPES

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

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Asian American Panorama ($88)

The best of Asian American cinema in all of its colors—from stories of activism and history-making, to tales of woe and humor.

Includes: The Celine Archive, Curtain Up!, Death of Nintendo, Definition Please, The Donut King, Down a Dark Stairwell, Export My Love, Finding Yingying, Gyopo, Mu and The Vanishing World, The Paper Tigers, Surrogate Valentine trilogy, All Shorts Programs

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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SHORTS: BE/LONGING

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

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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.

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SHORTS: HORMONAL DREAM

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Shorts that swim in body chemistry.

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SHORTS: HUMAN RESOURCES

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

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SHORTS: MALL RAT

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

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SHORTS: QUEER SHAPES

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

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SHORTS: REEL VOICES

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

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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.

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SHORTS: TIGHT QUARTERS

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

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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.

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Asia Pop! ($64)

Films to make you laugh, cry, and cheer, featuring accidental assassins, beauty queen hideouts, and giant robot dreams.

Includes: Assassins, Drama Queen, It Feels So Good, Kim Ji-Young, Born 1982, Memories to Choke On Drinks To Wash Them Down, My Prince Edward, Project Dreams – How to Build Mazinger Z’s Hangar, Wild Swords

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Filipino American History Month ($25)

Celebrate Filipino American History Month and connect with what’s happening in the motherland by watching some of the latest films and film restorations from the Philippines.

Includes: The Celine Archive, Death of Nintendo, Genus Pan, Misteryo Sa Tuwa, A Thousand Cuts

In Collaboration with SDSU Asian Pacific Islander Desi American ERG, AB Samahan, San Diego Filipino Cinema

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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A THOUSAND CUTS

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

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Cinephile ($99)

Cinema is an art form. The films included in this package exemplify the best of the best, the most experimental, and the most timeless pieces of art that have ever graced a silver screen. While we can’t enjoy these evocative and powerful pieces in a full theater, have a slice of movie magic at home with this list.

Includes the following sections: Masters (including Jia Zhang-ke trilogy), Invisible Waves, and After Life.

Films: After My Homecoming, All The Things We Never Said, Archiving Time, Black Milk, Chasing Dream, The Chess Game Of The Wind, Days, Dong, Gamak Ghar, Genus Pan, The Husband’s Secret, Letter To An Angel, Lost Lotus, Love And Death In Montmartre, Mauri, Me And The Cult Leader, Mekong 2030, Misteryo Sa Tuwa, Nobody, The Reason Why I’m Home., Stray, Swimming Out Till The Sea Turns Blue, There Is No Evil, A Thousand Cuts, Under The Open Sky, Useless, We Have Boots, The Woman Who Ran

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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…

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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,...

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GENUS PAN

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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.

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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.

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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.

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LOVE AND DEATH IN MONTMARTRE

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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...

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A THOUSAND CUTS

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

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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.

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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.

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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!...

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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.

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THIS IS 2020 ($35)

Required viewing for the end of the world, these films are artifacts of our time and prerequisites for the upcoming 2020 Election.

Includes: 76 Days, Down a Dark Stairwell, A Thousand Cuts, We Have Boots

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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.

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DOWN A DARK STAIRWELL

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A THOUSAND CUTS

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

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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!...

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Martial Arts ($20)

A whole range of martial arts films to satisfy all film lovers, from a Hong Kong master, indie wuxia, and Asian American kung-fu comedy.

Includes: Chasing Dream, The Paper Tigers, Wild Swords

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CHASING DREAM

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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.

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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.

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Chinese Communities ($88)

Explore this curated passage of time with Chinese cinema featuring tales of COVID-19 from its epicenter in Wuhan to a masterful trilogy by Jia Zhang-ke to an endearing story of Chinese American kids who just wanna have fun.

Includes: 76 Days, Chasing Dream, Curtain Up!, Down a Dark Stairwell, Export My Love, Finding Yingying, Jia Zhang-ke trilogy, Lost Lotus, Wild Swords

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76 DAYS

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CHASING DREAM

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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.

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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.

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DOWN A DARK STAIRWELL

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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.

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FINDING YINGYING

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LOST LOTUS

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Japanese Culture ($25)

Get a primer of Japanese culture in all of its vibrant colors with a journey that takes you from a failing relationship to an enigmatic intimate encounter with a cult leader to an action-packed morphing robot anime adaptation.

Includes: All the Things We Never Said, It Feels So Good, Me and the Cult Leader, Project Dreams – How to Build Mazinger Z’s Hangar, Under the Open Sky

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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.

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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.

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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.

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PROJECT DREAMS – HOW TO BUILD MAZINGER Z’S HANGAR

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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.

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Korean Immersion ($20)

Dive into storytelling that breaks boundaries and exposes the realities of Korean life, identity, and family from women-led tales to a musical odyssey.

Includes: Gyopo, Kim Ji-young, Born 1982, The Woman Who Ran

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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.

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KIM JI-YOUNG, BORN 1982

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THE WOMAN WHO RAN

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Jia Zhang-ke Artist Trilogy ($20)

With the new SWIMMING OUT TILL THE SEA TURNS BLUE, director Jia Zhang-ke completes a trilogy of documentaries about artists in China. The films encompass fashion, painting, and literature, but also the tectonic turns of a modern China and the would-be freedoms of artists and their essential ties to Chinese society.

Includes: Dong, Swimming Out Till The Sea Turns Blue, Useless

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Surrogate Valentine Trilogy ($20)

Director Lynn Chen rounds out the nine-year cinematic journey of singer-songwriter Goh Nakamura and his friends, lovers, and everyone in between. Playing that line between fact and fiction like an old guitar, these three instant-classic comedies show Asian Americans at their bumbling bests: creating, romancing, glowing under the California sun.

Includes: Daylight Savings, I Will Make You Mine, Surrogate Valentine

Sponsored by San Diego Chinese Women’s Association

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Taiwan Showcase ($50)

For the 9th year in a row, the San Diego Asian Film Festival presents the Taiwan Film Showcase, the largest annual presentation of Taiwanese cinema outside of Asia. Every year, the Showcase highlights the diversity of perspectives, languages, stories, and genres by filmmakers in Taiwan today.

Includes: Archiving Time, Days, The Husband’s Secret, Love and Death in Montmartre, Nobody, The Reason Why I’m Home, Shorts: Taiwan America

Sponsored by: Ministry of Culture Republic of China (Taiwan), Taiwan Academy, UC San Diego Taiwan Studies Lecture Series, UC San Diego The Chuan Lyu Endowed Chair of Taiwan Studies

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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.

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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.

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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.

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LOVE AND DEATH IN MONTMARTRE

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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.

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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.

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