Free Screenings
Free Films at 4
All films at 4:00 pm on festival weekdays are FREE.
SHORTS: SURPRISE WITNESS
Can I get a witness? A ride-or-die? Some proof of life? Ride shotgun with six films that explore the act of witnessing as testimony, recognition, and impossible act.
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SHORTS: CONCRETE MEMBRANE
When skin is a surface webbed by roads, eyes, and waiting rooms. Rooftop cameras shoot one-take city capers, doppelgangers roam twisty Tokyo streets, conspiring pigs whisper in warehouses, and backstage dance moms can’t help but stare.
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SHORTS: CHANNEL SURFING
When haunted homes and unmoored homecomings send life adrift, don’t change the channel! Whether through séances, shoebox memorials, or poetry, these films tune in to the human spirit underneath life's turbulent currents.
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SHORTS: GRAVITATIONAL MIRAGE
Like gravity bending light from a distant star, shorts that explore the narrative-push and pull of the land we live on.
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SHORTS: ESTRANGER DANGER
What to do when once-close becomes too-far? A myriad of stories that hover in the gap when familiar slowly becomes strange–whether childhood friends, a plot for freedom, a body, and even memories themselves.
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SHORTS: CHAOTIC HUSTLE
The hustle is real… and really chaotic in these shorts. Palms sweat in the worlds of rare coin dealers, NY Fashion Week, office acapella, a missing guitar, murky avatars, elder care, and a bank robbery gone wrong.
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Member Screening
The TUES Nov 10 screening of UNCOMMITTED is FREE for members of Pac Arts. Members can redeem their free ticket(s) online by using the code provided in the general membership e-newsletter. For any assistance, please email membership@pacarts.org.
Uncommitted
Arab and Muslim grassroots leaders and their elected allies spearhead the Uncommitted National Movement, striving to secure a ceasefire in Gaza and redefine American political priorities.
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Programs for Families
For the third year, films at this year’s San Diego Asian Film Festival are FREE for youth and children.
- Shorts for Shorties! A collection of international short films for kids.
- Reel Voices World premiere of our high school documentary program.
SHORTS for SHORTIES
The pressure is rising, the barometer is falling, come enjoy short films specially curated for our Super El Niños!
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REEL VOICES
Grief, fear, and loss can consume the mind, but these twelve filmmakers convert adversities into connection, humor, and strength. Come celebrate this year’s Reel Voices films, which reflect on love that survives through memory and the community that surrounds it.
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Taiwan Film Showcase
All Taiwan Film Showcase screenings at AMC UTC 14 are FREE for UCSD students, faculty, and staff with a valid ID. (Taiwan Film Showcase screenings at UltraStar Cinemas are excluded.)
Good Neighbors
The Chen family, new arrivals from China, open a traditional-medicine clinic beside the Ng family’s Western one, creating small frictions in language and customs. Everything shifts when the younger generation falls for one another.
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Beyond the Smiles: Yani Tseng
The historic and unparalleled rise, fall, and epic comeback of global golf icon Yani Tseng who returns to the golf course and embarks on a quest to explore her life’s purpose.
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Arrested Memory
After developing amnesia, Lee is assigned a new case: the kidnapping of the son of a Japanese businessman. As his memory continues to fade, Lee can only rely on his instincts—which, against all odds, lead him to the criminals.
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Will You Still Be My Friend
Jun, a naive thirteen-year-old boy from a village in southern Taiwan, shares a secret bond with his best friend, Jasper, who moved from Singapore with his parents after they began buying land for solar farms in the village.
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I Blew Out the Candles Before Making a Wish
A broke man and a young girl with unusable casino chips form an unlikely alliance, hoping to outplay fate and win back their happiness.
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Dust
The Walker passes a Basque farmer, a silent man, a woman who drinks water incessantly, and a woman who smokes incessantly. Along the stormy coast, he lingers before Eduardo Chillida’s The Comb of the Wind.
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