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LIT AFTER DARK

Filmmakers in attendance. Film program will be followed by Q&A

Sometimes the most intense storytelling happens when we close our eyes. These are reflections on the past, the future; and dangerous liaisons with monsters, the underworld, and within.

In this program


REVERSE

Directed by Joshua Aries

A time-travelling hitman reluctantly chooses between eliminating his high-profile target or stopping the painful (and pivotal) heartbreak of his younger self happening across the room.

EUREKA

Directed by Miida Chu

A young indentured Chinese prostitute must overcome her toxic dependency on the brothel madam on the eve of the 1885 anti-Chinese riot in Eureka, California.

TAROT

Directed by Dorothy Xiao

A woman summons a special guest to help her make a choice, and ends up getting an answer she doesn’t expect.

IN THE MOUNTAINS

Directed by Wally Chung

A couple go hiking and something weird happens.

KAGEBOSHI

Directed by Ken Ochiai

In the 1930’s, a Japanese-American father & daughter must play a deadly game of shadow tag to escape from a demon child, Kageboshi.

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 in New York’s wild underground rave scene.

GOOD TASTE

Directed by Seonjae Kim

An Asian woman goes home with an attractive white couple to have a hot threesome, only to discover that they have very dark tastes.

BE FREE

Directed by Michael Sun Lee

An old man finally wakes up.

DIKIT

Directed by Gabriela Serrano

A young woman with a monstrous secret desperately longs for a new body.

Dates & Times

Past

Aratani Theatre @ JACCC

Fri, May 13
9:30 pm