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Family
A Hurt Like Mine
Film
A Hurt Like Mine
Directed by Kahea Kiwaha
A young boy, haunted by a child-like apparition, struggles to support his mom and baby sister as they…
After the Storm
Film
After the Storm
Directed by Sungbin Moon
A filmmaker calls her now-sober mom, who lives halfway around the world, to confront their traumatic past.
Awit Natin (Our Song)
Film
Awit Natin (Our Song)
Directed by Pacqui Pascual
When their father dies during their mother's hospitalization, a Filipino family bands together to hide the truth.
Documentary Features
BETWEEN GOODBYES
Film
BETWEEN GOODBYES
Directed by Jota Mun
When a queer Korean adoptee visits her original mother in Seoul, long-held regrets and cultural misunderstandings come to…
Narrative Features
BITTERROOT
Film
BITTERROOT
Directed by Vera Brunner-Sung
Reeling from a failed marriage and seeking solace and a new perspective, a Hmong man cares for his…
Bobo in Bliss
Film
Bobo in Bliss
Directed by Vivian Ip
Confronted with a visit by her traditional parents and younger sister to her boarding school, a Singaporean teenager…
Broken Mosaic
Film
Broken Mosaic
Directed by Alexandra "Lexie" Orr
In this punk music video, two mixed Asian-American siblings are always the topic of gossip, but they decide…
Crow, Starfish and Unicorn
Film
Crow, Starfish and Unicorn
Directed by Xiaoxuan Han
A story about crow, starfish, unicorn, and regret.
Daly City
Film
Daly City
Directed by Nick Hartanto
An Indonesian boy and his mother attend a church potluck and lie about their dish.
Pacific Cinewaves
DEAR ALOHA
Film
DEAR ALOHA
Directed by CRIS ROMENTO
Dear Aloha is a heartfelt story about the meaning of aloha through the lives of Diasporic Hawaiians in…
FLIGHT 182
Film
FLIGHT 182
Directed by Rippin Sindher
Amid rising political tensions, a devoted wife fights to protect her husband from boarding a flight that could…
Grandpa’s Beef Stew
Film
Grandpa’s Beef Stew
Directed by HaiTao Wu
Grandpa's Beef Stew follows a young protagonist's emotional journey as he grapples with his grandfather's Alzheimer's, uncovering the…
Growing Up
Film
Growing Up
Directed by Ann Sun
We all have that moment when we suddenly realize: we're the same age as our parents when they…
GYOPO
Film
GYOPO
Directed by Christina YR Lim
A family goes to great lengths to protect a 10-year-old aspiring violinist from discovering the truth about her…
Have I Swallowed Your Dreams
Film
Have I Swallowed Your Dreams
Directed by Clara Chan
A poetic conversation between an immigrant daughter and her mother about sacrifices and dreams.
HOLY HEAVINESS
Film
HOLY HEAVINESS
Directed by Farnoosh Abedi-Negah Fardiar
The unbearable lightness of the death of loved ones… There are wounds in life that eat away at…
Pacific Cinewaves
KÜĪ
Film
KÜĪ
Directed by Kahu Kaiha
In the face of her mother's absence and her father's alcoholism, 12 year old girl, Küī, rises above…
Documentary Features
LIGHT OF A SETTING SUN
Film
LIGHT OF A SETTING SUN
Directed by Vicky Du
A Taiwanese-American filmmaker questions her family's silence around the cycles of violence that have persisted since the Chinese…
Maybe It’s Just the Rain
Film
Maybe It’s Just the Rain
Directed by Reina Bonta
In their debut, an underdog group of young women become the first Filipino team in history to win…
Memory Palace
Film
Memory Palace
Directed by Steven Gong
After college, Steven revisits the places that defined each era of his life: early adolescence in the suburbs,…
My Only Friend is a Robot Named Beans
Film
My Only Friend is a Robot Named Beans
Directed by Anika Kan Grevstad
Ruby finds her lonesome routines disrupted when she makes an unlikely new friend: a mail-order robot.
Myself When I Am Real
Film
Myself When I Am Real
Directed by Angeline Gragasin
Set in the year 2000, a single mother and her teenage daughter struggle to make friends and find…
NANI
Film
NANI
Directed by Mainak Dhar
On her yearly trip home for Eid, Maisha rebels against family expectations to give her grandmother a fleeting…
Prematho
Film
Prematho
Directed by Harshith S. Kotni
When a perfectionist teenage Bharatanatyam dancer is denied her Arangayram (recital), she must realize that impeccable technique alone…
Rising
Film
Rising
Directed by Evelyn Hang Yin
RISING traces the history of China Alley in Hanford, California and how four generations of the Wing family…
Roots That Reach Toward The Sky
Film
Roots That Reach Toward The Sky
Directed by Jess X. Snow
When her immigrant mother’s Chinese Traditional Medicine shop gets vandalized, Kai, a young botanist is thrust in between…
Ruya
Film
Ruya
Directed by Nicole Mairose Dizon
When a T’boli dreamweaver goes into a coma, her anxious, insomniac daughter must dream and communicate with Fu…
Narrative Features
SURRENDER
Film
SURRENDER
Directed by Jess Dang
Triggered and wanting to escape her past trauma, Naomi, a young Asian American female, falls into the world…
Swimming Lessons
Film
Swimming Lessons
Directed by Meloddy Gao
Swimming Lessons is a personal, reflexive film that follows a daughter of Chinese immigrants who yearns to understand…
Tasting Heritage
Film
Tasting Heritage
Directed by Emily Strong
Tasting Heritage is a nourishing coming of heritage story of a Korean-adopted woman named Emily Flynn.
The Roof Over My Head
Film
The Roof Over My Head
Directed by Madison Buchanan
An Appalachian family recount their lifetime journey with unstable housing and houselessness.
Things We Carry
Film
Things We Carry
Directed by Yifan Zhang
On her first Chinese new year's eve in Australia, Yan realises that her 8-year-old son, Yuan Yuan, might…
Three Ates and a Wedding
Film
Three Ates and a Wedding
Directed by Kevin Ang
Three vastly different Filipino-Canadian sisters accidentally ruin their younger brother’s wedding.
U-turn
Film
U-turn
Directed by Mahin Sadri
It's about a middle aged woman who wants to try another shape of life but she is a…
Documentary Features
VOICES OF DEOLI
Film
VOICES OF DEOLI
Directed by Lulu Men
Voices of Deoli is a poignant documentary that follows the lives of survivors of the Deoli internment camp,…
Who Are You, Nanu?
Film
Who Are You, Nanu?
Directed by Anjini Taneja Azhar
After her Nanu's (meaning 'grandfather' in Hindi) ceremonial cremation brings her to the Holy Ganges River in India…
Wouldn’t Make It Any Other Way
Film
Wouldn’t Make It Any Other Way
Directed by Hao Zhou
Having built a colorful queer life in Iowa, an aspiring costume designer visits their island homeland of Guam…
Documentary Features
YEAR OF THE CAT
Film
YEAR OF THE CAT
Directed by Tony Nguyen
YEAR OF THE CAT follows filmmaker Tony Nguyen on an extraordinary quest to solve the mystery of his…
Yú Cì (Fish Bones)
Film
Yú Cì (Fish Bones)
Directed by Kevin Xian Ming Yu
Bowen, a nonbinary Asian-American from Queens, tries to connect with their estranged father and help him deal with…
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