News What We Learn As We Grow: Coming-of-Age Reflections from LAAPFF 2025 At the 2025 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, five standout shorts offered nuanced portrayals of adolescence. Each...

News “A Love Letter Across Generations”: Reina Bonta on Diaspora, Football, and Her Intimate Documentary Maybe It’s Just the Rain With Maybe It’s Just the Rain, award-winning filmmaker and professional athlete Reina Bonta delivers a lyrical, emotionally charged...

News MĀHŪ: A Trans-Pacific Love Letter to Identity, Culture, and Courage After making its world premiere on May 2 at the 2025 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, MĀHŪ:...

News Sacred Moments, Universal Truths: Narrative Shorts at LAAPFF 2025 Capture Grief, Growth, and Grace This year’s Narrative Shorts program included deeply intimate stories that stretch across faiths, families, and generations. From the...

News Personal Meditations on Family, Inheritance, and the Work of Becoming Whole At the 2025 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, four standout shorts. Charlie Can Talk, Daly City, A...

News Land, Lineage, and Resistance: Indigenous Narratives at LAAPFF 2025 Reclaim Voice and Vision At the 2025 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (LAAPFF), stories told by and about the descendants of...

News What We Refuse: Films of Rebellion and Reckoning at LAAPFF 2025 Written by Eseel Borlasa, After Bruce At the 2025 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, five short films...

News Memory, Movement, and Making Meaning: Three Films at LAAPFF 2025 Ask Us to Reflect -and Reimagine Written by Eseel Borlasa, After Bruce What do we carry forward from the past? How do we hold...

News Year Of The Cat: Tony Nguyen’s Intimate Excavation of War, Memory, and Healing Written by Eseel Borlasa, After Bruce In Year Of The Cat, filmmaker Tony Nguyen turns the camera inward...

News When Refusal Is Gentle, and Still Revolutionary Written by Eseel Borlasa, After Bruce At LAAPFF 2025, four short films challenge the idea that resistance must...