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Documentary Features

This year’s Documentary Features are distinguished by emerging artists with exciting untold stories as well as subjects which hold super-apt relevancy to our changing worldview(s) today.

Anti-Asian Hate, 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…

Documentary Features, Special Presentations

A LONG MARCH

Film A LONG MARCH Directed by TS Botkin Many Philippine migration stories, here in California and across the nation, are linked to the thousands of Filipino…

Anti-Asian Hate, Documentary Features

BAD AXE

Film BAD AXE Directed by David Siev This raw, slice of life documentary delivers a heart achingly beautiful story of a Cambodian-American family being tested…

Documentary Features

CROSSINGS

Film CROSSINGS Directed by Deann Borshay Liem Thirty women peacemakers, including Gloria Steinem, undertake a risky crossing of the DMZ from North to South Korea…

Documentary Features

DELIKADO

Film DELIKADO Directed by Karl Malakunas Three environmental crusaders confront murder, betrayal and their own demons as they are tested like never before in…

Anti-Asian Hate, Documentary Features

FREE CHOL SOO LEE

Film FREE CHOL SOO LEE Directed by Julie Ha & Eugene Yi Incorporating extensive archival footage with poignant interviews, the documentary recounts the landmark movement sparked by Chol Soo Lee’s…

Anti-Asian Hate, Documentary Features

OMOIYARI: A SONG FILM BY KISHI BASHI

Film OMOIYARI: A SONG FILM BY KISHI BASHI Directed by Justin Smith, Kaoru Ishibashi Violinist and songwriter Kishi Bashi travels on a musical journey to understand WWII era Japanese Incarceration, assimilation, and…

Documentary Features

SINGING IN THE WILDERNESS

Film SINGING IN THE WILDERNESS Directed by Chen Dongnan In the mountains of Southern China, a small community of Christian-Miao people have kept their religion and traditions…

Documentary Features, 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…

Documentary Features

THIS STAINED DAWN

Film THIS STAINED DAWN Directed by Anam Abbas Karachi’s feminists organise a woman’s march, facing Pakistan’s radical religious right. A philosophical work, This Stained Dawn is…

Documentary Features, Special Presentations

WATERMAN

Film WATERMAN Directed by Isaac Halasima Surfing legend. Olympic superstar. Hawaiian Icon. American hero.