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Unknown Pleasures

MYANMAR DIARIES

Film MYANMAR DIARIES Directed by Myanmar Film Collective In 2021, a Burmese woman livestreams a workout class, inadvertently documenting the moments the military overthrows its civilian…
Asia Pop!

MYSTERY KUNG FU THEATER

Film MYSTERY KUNG FU THEATER A wise man can learn more from a mystery question than a fool can learn from a mystery's…
Masters

NO BEARS

Film NO BEARS Directed by Jafar Panahi With signature disregard for the boundaries between truth and fiction, Jafar Panahi plays a version of himself renting…
Special Presentations

NURSE UNSEEN

Film NURSE UNSEEN Directed by Michele Josue Invisible yet ever-present, anonymous yet indispensable. For over six decades, Filipino nurses have been at the frontlines of…
Asian American Panorama

OCEAN CITY MONSTER BUILDING

Film OCEAN CITY MONSTER BUILDING Directed by Chris Lane Bucking the trend of glossy true crime, director Chris Lane applies a raw and surreal technique to this…
Unknown Pleasures

REMEMBER ME

Film REMEMBER ME Directed by Hung Chun-hsiu Just off the coast of China is Kinmen, a heavily-fortified set of islands governed from afar by Taiwan.…
Special Presentations

RICEBOY SLEEPS

Film RICEBOY SLEEPS Directed by Anthony Shim In Anthony Shim’s emotionally layered second feature, RICEBOY SLEEPS, So-young and her young son Dong-hyun leave behind family…
Masters

SEPTET: THE STORY OF HONG KONG

Film SEPTET: THE STORY OF HONG KONG Directed by Ann Hui, Johnnie To, Patrick Tam, Ringo Lam, Sammo Hung, Tsui Hark, Yuen Woo-ping Seven short films directed by a dream team of Hong Kong legends, SEPTET takes us through the decades,…
Unknown Pleasures

SHOEBOX

Film SHOEBOX Directed by Faraz Ali A daughter returns home to care for her ailing father, when the independent theater that he’s run for…
Asia Pop!

STELLAR: A MAGICAL RIDE

Film STELLAR: A MAGICAL RIDE Directed by Kwon Soo-kyung When a sports car under his watch disappears, Young-bae finds himself on the run from gangsters. Or more…
Unknown Pleasures

STONEWALLING

Film STONEWALLING Directed by Huang Ji, Ryuji Otsuka Lynn has big plans for learning English and becoming a flight attendant. Having a baby with her unreliable…
Asia Pop!

SUBTRACTION

Film SUBTRACTION Directed by Mani Haghighi Farzaneh swears she sees her husband on a bus. She secretly follows him to his destination: an apartment…
Asia Pop!

THE FISH TALE

Film THE FISH TALE Directed by Shuichi Okita Loosely based on the life of celebrity marine biologist Sakana-kun, THE FISH TALE follows Meebo, who pursues a…
Classics Restored

THE HEROIC TRIO

Film THE HEROIC TRIO Directed by Johnnie To Icons Michelle Yeoh, Maggie Cheung, and Anita Mui put the X in latex in this newly restored, quintessentially…
Unknown Pleasures

THE HILL OF SECRETS

Film THE HILL OF SECRETS Directed by Lee Ji-eun Determined to be better than her crude, tight-fisted family, 12-year-old Myung-eun decides to run for class president and…
Asia Pop!

THE NARROW ROAD

Film THE NARROW ROAD Directed by Lam Sum For two Hong Kongers, the pandemic breeds opportunity. For Chak, it’s turning his cleaning business into a disinfection…
Masters

THE NOVELIST’S FILM

Film THE NOVELIST’S FILM Directed by Hong Sang-soo Spurned by filmmaking years ago, a novelist later in her life is re-seduced by the form—with all the…
Asian American Panorama

THERAPY DOGS

Film THERAPY DOGS Directed by Ethan Eng From the youngest filmmaker to premiere at Slamdance, THERAPY DOGS is an electrifying feature shot undercover as a…
Asia Pop!

TOO COOL TO KILL

Film TOO COOL TO KILL Directed by Xing Wenxiong In this movie-in-a-movie comedy, a background actor with thespian dreams accepts the role of a lifetime: hitman in…
Masters

WALK UP

Film WALK UP Directed by Hong Sang-soo Hong Sang-soo has a way of making life seem like a never-ending series of rhythms and reverberations. This…
Asia Pop!

WE ARE STILL HERE

Film WE ARE STILL HERE Directed by Beck Cole, Chantelle Burgoyne, Danielle MacLean, Dena Curtis, Mario Gaoa, Miki Magasiva, Renae Maihi, Richard Curtis, Samuel Nuggin-Paynter, Tim Worrall, Tiraroa Reweti, Tracey Rigney Indigenous filmmakers in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand interweave multiple stories about colonialism, war, and apocalypses past and…
Masters

WHAT ABOUT CHINA?

Film WHAT ABOUT CHINA? Directed by Trinh T. Minh-ha Trinh T. Minh-ha (Surname Viet Given Name Nam) revisits footage shot in rural China in 1993, reframed against…
Masters

WHEN THE WAVES ARE GONE

Film WHEN THE WAVES ARE GONE Directed by Lav Diaz It’s cop vs. cop in Lav Diaz’s latest: a dark, protracted tale of vengeance and crushing cycles of…
Special Presentations

WISDOM GONE WILD

Film WISDOM GONE WILD Directed by Rea Tajiri In this masterwork of a career-long investigation into collective memory, Rea Tajiri (Strawberry Fields) partners with her mother,…