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San Diego Asian Film Festival presents

The 10th SDAFF Spring Showcase!

Enjoy the freshest picks from Asian and Asian American cinema.

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Asia Pop!

The Way We Keep Dancing

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Film The Way We Keep Dancing Directed by Adam Wong INCLUDES Q&A - Break dancers, rappers, and YouTube personalities are on the brink of stardom when city bureaucrats…
Asian American Panorama

Try Harder!

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Film Try Harder! Directed by Debbie Lum Students at San Francisco's famed Lowell High work, dance, and celebrate their way through a nail-biting senior year…
Asian American Panorama

Cane Fire

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Film Cane Fire Directed by Anthony Banua-Simon Film history is also colonial history in Anthony Banua-Simon’s riveting documentary about the construction of Hawai’i as a…
Asia Pop!

Dear Tenant

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Film Dear Tenant Directed by Cheng Yu-chieh Lin is not just a tenant, but the caretaker of his ailing landlord, who also happens to be…
Asia Pop!

Fan Girl

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Film Fan Girl Directed by Antoinette Jadaone INCLUDES Q&A - A fanatical teenage girl is rudely awakened when her fantasies of her idol are shattered…
Asia Pop!

My Missing Valentine

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Film My Missing Valentine Directed by Chen Yu-hsun On February 15th, Yang Hsiao-chi awakens to discover she’s lost both her Valentine’s Day and her Valentine’s date!…
Masters

The Real Thing

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Film The Real Thing Directed by Koji Fukada After Kazumichi rescues the awkward Ukiyo from a near-death accident, he can’t help but get sucked back into…
Masters

Sun Children

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Film Sun Children Directed by Majid Majidi 12-year-old Ali and friends prowl the streets of Tehran, swiping parts off Mercedes and making a modest living…
Sovereign Cinema: the political documentary of Nā Maka o ka ‘Āina

Act of War – The Overthrow of the Hawaiian Nation

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Film Act of War – The Overthrow of the Hawaiian Nation Directed by Joan Lander, Puhipau Sovereignty includes the right to tell one’s own history. That means laying bare the events and circumstances leading…
Sovereign Cinema: the political documentary of Nā Maka o ka ‘Āina

Mauna Kea – Temple Under Siege

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Film Mauna Kea – Temple Under Siege Directed by Joan Lander, Puhipau “Great science. Wrong mountain.” For Native Hawaiians, Mauna Kea is a kūpuna, an ancestor central to their culture.…
Sovereign Cinema: the political documentary of Nā Maka o ka ‘Āina

The Tribunal

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Film The Tribunal Directed by Joan Lander, Puhipau A fascinating legal study of justice under occupation, THE TRIBUNAL documents the Peoples’ International Tribunal Hawai’i 1993, during…
Songs Our Elders Taught Me

And Thereafter

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Film And Thereafter Directed by Hosup Lee Hosup Lee’s award-winning documentary about a Korean woman who marries an American GI and ends up an outsider…
Songs Our Elders Taught Me

Cosmopolitan

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Film Cosmopolitan Directed by Nisha Ganatra After his family leaves him, a recent retiree takes an interest in leftover Cosmo magazines and an intriguing…
Songs Our Elders Taught Me

The Wash

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Film The Wash Directed by Michael Toshiyuki Uno Three legends (Mako, Nobu McCarthy, Sab Shimono) headline this rare 1988 drama about love after divorce.
Songs Our Elders Taught Me

Wong Sinsaang

Film Wong Sinsaang Directed by Eddie Wong Peering through the dry cleaning, Eddie Wong views his laundromat father with frustration and awe.

Mystery Kung Fu Theater

Film Mystery Kung Fu Theater The mystery continues. The theater awaits. The KUNG beckons. The FU elates.   Three hours of Saturday morning, fist-flying, dolphin-riding...