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Coming of Age
Anti-Asian Hate
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Documentary Features
80 YEARS LATER
Film
80 YEARS LATER
Directed by Celine Parreñas Shimizu
80 YEARS LATER explores the racial inheritance of Japanese American family incarceration during World War II through multigenerational…
ALL I WANT IS EVERYTHING
Film
ALL I WANT IS EVERYTHING
Directed by Alexandra Cuerdo
A coming-of-age crime drama, fiercely driven Alice Kim battles class, race, family pressure to become a drug dealer…
AND WE COLLIDE
Film
AND WE COLLIDE
Directed by Lanca Li
An unexpected tropical encounter sparks a fragile romance between a wanna-be astronaut and a village farm boy.
de closin night
Film
de closin night
Directed by Shicong Zhu
A Chinese theater student tries to Americanize her accent for a performance so hard that the line between…
ELVIS OF LAOS
Film
ELVIS OF LAOS
Directed by Van Ditthavong
Through dance and conversations - a famous Lao singer, his son, and granddaughter examine the artist's inspirations after…
FIRSTS
Film
FIRSTS
Directed by Jesse Ung
A closeted Chinese international student living in New Zealand plans to lose his virginity to a stranger that…
HOLY COWBOYS
Film
HOLY COWBOYS
Directed by Varun Chopra
In small-town India, where cows are considered sacred, a teenaged boy treads the world of vigilantism to become…
HOW SMALL!
Film
HOW SMALL!
Directed by Charlene Xu
A young woman reminisces about her deceased grandmother, whose volatile personality troubled and confused her as a child.
Narrative Features
ISTIKHARA, NEW YORK
Film
ISTIKHARA, NEW YORK
Directed by Yasir Masood
Reza, a twenty year old aspiring broadway actor and a food delivery courier hustles to make ends meet.
LOCAL MIDDLE SCHOOLER
Film
LOCAL MIDDLE SCHOOLER
Directed by Sanjna Bharadwaj
A girl with magic eyelashes is exploited for them by her school, her community, and eventually the government.
LONG LINE OF LADIES
Film
LONG LINE OF LADIES
Directed by Rayka Zehtabchi, Shaandiin Tome
Long Line of Ladies is a stigma-breaking, female-directed short documentary that gives viewers a glimpse into the story…
MAN BROWS
Film
MAN BROWS
Directed by Rohan Srinivasan
An Indian-American teenager is forced to confront his "masculine" insecurities when he gets his eyebrows threaded.
NOTHING BUT EMPTY ROAD
Film
NOTHING BUT EMPTY ROAD
Directed by Cole Bacani
Vanessa hasn't seen her dad in years until the night of her premiere, and now he only has…
POACHERS
Film
POACHERS
Directed by Tiffany Lin
During the summer before college, two best friends come across a unique business opportunity: illegally harvesting and selling…
Narrative Features
RAYDIO
Film
RAYDIO
Directed by Kaidi ZHAN
Ray and Dio, father and son, work the day and night shifts respectively. Both reticent and emotionless, they…
REIWA 9000
Film
REIWA 9000
Directed by Ray Yamamoto
Per the request of his grandmother, a Japanese-American man goes to the beach in Los Angeles
SKIN CAN BREATH
Film
SKIN CAN BREATH
Directed by Chheangkea Ieng
A Cambodian-American teenager finds home inside the water of his high school pool.
Documentary Features
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Special Presentations
SURF NATION
Film
SURF NATION
Directed by Jeremiah M. Bogert Jr., Jessica Q. Chen
With surfing being included in the Olympics for the first time, a coming of age story unfolds as…
Pacific Cinewaves
TAPA: THE CLOTH THAT BINDS US
Film
TAPA: THE CLOTH THAT BINDS US
Directed by Nancy Thompson
An artistic look at one of the South Pacific Islands’ age old traditional practices of creating tapa cloth,…
THE LIFE I KNOW
Film
THE LIFE I KNOW
Directed by Animation Director: Cami Kwan, Marie Jamora
A stop-motion animated music video for the Filipino band, The Itchyworms.
VARIOUS SHADES OF OFF-WHITE
Film
VARIOUS SHADES OF OFF-WHITE
Directed by Charlie Pu
What does it mean to be connected to culture?
Animation Programs
w(HO)
Film
w(HO)
Directed by Candace Ho
Unpack one Ho’s journey with womanhood, internalized misogyny and sexuality from childhood to adulthood.
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