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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…
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…
Documentary Features
Chinatown Cha-cha
Film
Chinatown Cha-cha
Directed by Luka Yuanyuan Yang
The 92-year-old previous nightclub dancer Coby Yee decides to get back on stage again after joining the senior…
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…
Documentary Features
FROM OKINAWA WITH LOVE
Film
FROM OKINAWA WITH LOVE
Directed by Hiroshi Sunairi
In the 1970s, Okinawan photographer Mao Ishikawa worked as a barmaid for African American GIs and published an…
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.
Shorts Programs
Home-land: Hmong American Women
Film
Home-land: Hmong American Women
Directed by Pader Xiong
This short film explores the identities, pursuits, and making of Home-land across various Hmong American Women.
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…
Memories of Mindanao: Tawi Tawi
Film
Memories of Mindanao: Tawi Tawi
Directed by Alleluia Panis
A multi-generational group of American Pilipino artists and cultural workers embark on a visual and sensory immersion trip…
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…
ONLY IN THIS WORLD
Film
ONLY IN THIS WORLD
Directed by Dorothy Xiao
When an empty nester loses her ability to summon her daughter back from the afterlife, she is forced…
Pacific Cinewaves
Open Looks
Film
Open Looks
Directed by Mīria George
To let go, she must play the game of her life.
RECOLLECTORS
Film
RECOLLECTORS
Directed by Ran Ran Wang
Two strangers work to determine what is worth remembering while language, and memory, deteriorates.
Rooftop Lempicka
Film
Rooftop Lempicka
Directed by Hang Luong Nguyen
While her mother is expecting their second child, young Thi befriends club waitress Ngoc who has just moved…
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…
Rosa’s Flowers
Film
Rosa’s Flowers
Directed by Amanda Ann-Min Wong
In 1998 Indonesia, two girls promise to stay friends forever. 25 years later, Emily dreams about Rosa, her…
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…
Saint Vegas
Film
Saint Vegas
Directed by Samantha Herrera
A young woman adopts a new life in Las Vegas following the loss of her mother.
Sex, Baseball, and All Pussibilities
Film
Sex, Baseball, and All Pussibilities
Directed by Aimee Pham, Kai Sampadian
Two horny best friends, desperate to make a friday night count, go through all the sexual preparation for…
She and Her Good Vibrations
Film
She and Her Good Vibrations
Directed by Olivia Griselda, Sarah Cheok
A stressed-out, middle-aged woman discovers the wonders of a vibrator, but she soon becomes addicted to solo pleasure…
Sleep On It
Film
Sleep On It
Directed by Hix Murakami
In this Filipino adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Princess and the Pea," a hopeless romantic falls for…
Documentary Features
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Pacific Cinewaves
Standing Above the Clouds
Film
Standing Above the Clouds
Directed by Jalena Keane-Lee
When the massive Thirty Meter Telescope is proposed to be built on Mauna Kea, an uprising of kiaʻi…
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…
Surrija – Nothing Love
Film
Surrija – Nothing Love
Directed by Clarence Deng
Music video for "Nothing Love" by Surrija, where the artist is trapped in a liminal space manifested from…
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.
Documentary Features
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Pacific Cinewaves
Te Puna Ora (The Source of Life)
Film
Te Puna Ora (The Source of Life)
Directed by Virginie Tetoofa
As privatization threatens the very fabric of Moorea Island, three Tahitian women embark on a sacred journey to…
Timeless Voices
Film
Timeless Voices
Directed by Christine An
In the deep mountains of Southern China, the indigenous Dong chorus sings the struggles, resilience, and spiritual healing…
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…
Vic and His Nanay
Film
Vic and His Nanay
Directed by Jillian Janairo
While he’s trapped in his apartment recovering from COVID, an exasperated Vic tries to evade a nosy apparition of his late mother.
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,…
Words of Her
Film
Words of Her
Directed by Charlene Xu
A distressed woman’s soliloquy.
“That woman” comes to her city for a short stay, bringing her the rain season…
Zari
Film
Zari
Directed by Shruti Parekh
Amidst preparations for her sister’s wedding in India, young American Neelu forges an unexpected connection with Zeyb, a…
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