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Masters
Living in Two Worlds
Film
Living in Two Worlds
Directed by Mipo O
Based on a true story, Dai Igarashi was raised by his deaf parents to be an ordinary young…
Asia Pop!
Love Child
Film
Love Child
Directed by Jonathan Jurilla
Real-life lovers Jane Oineza and RK Bagatsing play a young unmarried couple who had a baby when they…
Asia Pop!
Love Lies
Film
Love Lies
Directed by Ho Miu Ki
Widowed for years, a successful gynecologist joins a dating app and meets a handsome Frenchman. Unfortunately, the dashing…
Asian American Panorama
Love Me
Film
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…
Classics Revived
Mahjong
Film
Mahjong
Directed by Edward Yang
A young French girl comes to Taiwan to rekindle her romance with an older man but finds herself…
Unknown Pleasures
Mistress Dispeller
Film
Mistress Dispeller
Directed by Elizabeth Lo
Husband. Wife. Mistress… Mistress Dispeller. Four people entwined in China’s new industry of “mistress dispelling” in which an…
Asian American Panorama
Moloka’i Bound
Film
Moloka’i Bound
Directed by Alika Tengan
After years behind bars for drug charges, Kainoa is given a second chance to reunite with his estranged…
Asia Pop!
My Favourite Cake
Film
My Favourite Cake
Directed by Behtash Sanaeeha, Maryam Moghaddam
A senior Iranian widow lives uneventfully in Tehran until she meets a taxi driver of her own age.…
Asia Pop!
My Sunshine
Film
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…
Classics Revived
Mystery Kung Fu Theater
Film
Mystery Kung Fu Theater
A true master is forever a student of the mystery kung fu theater.
Special Presentations
New Wave
Film
New Wave
Directed by Elizabeth Ai
Elizabeth Ai’s introspective documentary tells the story of new wave, a musical phenomenon popularized by young Vietnamese refugees…
Asian American Panorama
Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement
Film
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…
Asian American Panorama
Paper Marriage
Film
Paper Marriage
Directed by Jeff Man
Fanny decides to pay unemployed Jeff to enter into a green card marriage with a year to prepare…
Masters
Phantosmia
Film
Phantosmia
Directed by Lav Diaz
A decorated ex-military officer has developed phantosmia, a condition whereby he can’t shed a phantom smell lodged in…
Asia Pop!
Pierce
Film
Pierce
Directed by Nelicia Low
Zi-Jie always felt that his brother was wrongfully imprisoned for killing an opponent during a fencing match. So…
Asia Pop!
Pooja, Sir
Film
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…
Unknown Pleasures
Regretfully at Dawn
Film
Regretfully at Dawn
Directed by Sivaroj Kongsakul
An aging veteran prefers simple countryside days with his dog and teenage granddaughter Xiang. In his heart, he…
Classics Revived
Shanghai Blues
Film
Shanghai Blues
Directed by Tsui Hark
On the eve of Japan’s attack, a soldier and a young woman meet under a bridge, vowing to…
Asian American Panorama
Standing Above the Clouds
Film
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…
Masters
Steppenwolf
Film
Steppenwolf
Directed by Adilkhan Yerzhanov
Kazakh master Adilkhan Yerzhanov delivers deadpan terror and the year’s most hollowed-out duo in this stylized take on…
Asian American Panorama
Stranger
Film
Stranger
Directed by Zhengfan Yang
The world is full of hotel rooms, spaces of transience fashioned like homes. In seven vignettes, STRANGER captures…
Asia Pop!
Superboys of Malegaon
Film
Superboys of Malegaon
Directed by Reema Kagti
A rollicking ode to small towns and no-budget bravado based on the incredible true story of Nasir Shaikh,…
Masters
A Traveler’s Needs
Film
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…
Asian American Panorama
Tura!
Film
Tura!
Directed by Cody Jarrett
Narrated by Margaret Cho, TURA! celebrates the legacy of cult icon and Faster, Pussycat! Kill Kill! star Tura…
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