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shareThe following films screen at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park. For directions to MOPA@SDMA, click here.
Saturday, November 9, 2024
Standing Above the Clouds
Directed by Jalena Keane-Lee
From the frontlines to the homefront, a rousing and intimate portrait of three families of Native Hawaiian mothers and daughters at the heart of the largest political movement in modern Hawaiian history -- protecting the sacred land of Mauna Kea from the construction of the world’s largest telescope.
12:00 pm
Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA@SDMA)
SHORTS: HEARTLOCK’D
Baked into the fevered pulse of America’s heartland and the dusty sweat of the landlocked, these four riveting, tender, and poetic films feature Asian American stories from Arkansas, Iowa, Wyoming, and a mythical Midwest.
2:20 pm
Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA@SDMA)
SHORTS: QUEERLY EVER AFTER
Suburban angst. Threesome dilemmas. Pulsating raves. A collection of unapologetic stories celebrating the diversity of the queer experience.
4:40 pm
Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA@SDMA)
My Sunshine
Directed by Hiroshi Okuyama
A young figure skater finds herself with a new dance partner: a bright-eyed boy smitten with his new sport...or with her? Together with their former champion skating coach, they backflip past the doubters and the norms of their rural town.
7:20 pm
Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA@SDMA)
Sunday, November 10, 2024
Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement
Directed by Quyên Nguyen-Le, Tadashi Nakamura
An essential portrait of singer, activist, performer and stone-cold legend Nobuko Miyamoto and her life from incarceration camps to Hollywood, motherhood, and becoming the voice of an urgent, bubbling Asian American and anti-war movement. Nobuko Miyamoto scheduled to appear for special in-person performance.
12:10 pm
Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA@SDMA)
The Cats of Gokogu Shrine
Directed by Kazuhiro Soda
In Ushimado is a small shrine famous for its feline residents. Tourists arrive with their cameras and local fishermen leave snacks for their furry neighbors. Not everyone likes the cats though, as a community fights for an ecosystem that brings harmony to all species.
2:30 pm
Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA@SDMA)
A Traveler’s Needs
Directed by Hong Sang-soo
New to Seoul, Iris (icon and certified baddie Isabelle Huppert) has a drinker’s intuition and tricky spontaneity that matches Hong Sangsoo’s own filmmaking. With every gulp of makgeolli she gets bolder and more enigmatic. Is she a deluded old drifter, a voracious seducer, a con artist? Oui oui.
5:00 pm
Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA@SDMA)
When the Tenth Month Comes
Directed by Đặng Nhật Minh
When a woman’s husband dies in war, she recruits a local teacher to write letters as her husband to keep the death a secret from the village. Often hailed the greatest of all Vietnamese films, and presented with new subtitles from the Vietnam Film Institute.
7:00 pm
Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA@SDMA)
Saturday, November 16, 2024
Love Me
Directed by Andy Zuchero, Sam Zuchero
Millennia after the extinction of humans, a lone buoy in the ocean and a satellite in the sky send out signals that finally find each other. Scouring the remnants of the internet, they find personas (in the likelinesses of Steven Yeun and Kristen Stewart) to inhabit and explore the all-too-human experience of love.
12:00 pm
Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA@SDMA)
Pooja, Sir
Directed by Deepak Rauniyar
On the India-Nepal border, two boys are kidnapped, including the young son of a congressman. Pooja, a policewoman from Kathmandu, is assigned to the case. While she’s quick on her feet with veteran instincts, Pooja’s real challenge is navigating thorny local politics and impassioned protests for minority rights, along with everyone’s doubts when a woman is in charge.
2:20 pm
Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA@SDMA)
Abiding Nowhere
Directed by Tsai Ming-liang
The 10th installment of Tsai Ming Liang’s epic Walker series, in which a monk moves with mesmerizing slowness - this time across Washington DC. Inspired by a 7th century monk’s pilgrimage from China to India, a riveting experience of muscular control, vocabularies of time, and the sheer effort of presence.
5:20 pm
Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA@SDMA)
An Unfinished Film
Directed by Lou Ye
An ode to the indelible bonds of filmmakers, Lou Ye’s sly subversion and tenderness shine in this pandemic-era docufiction. A film crew nostalgic for their past adventures reunite to complete a film from their youth, only to be stranded in a hotel during the first panicked days of lockdown.
7:10 pm
Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA@SDMA)
