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Programs

Listed here are all the Festival programs and events, in alphabetical order.


Pacific Cinewaves, Shorts Programs

Healing Water

Program Healing Water These two filmmakers explore the inextricable links betweens climate change and colonialism, how the exploitation of the Native…
Shorts Programs

Helter Shelter

Program Helter Shelter Storms threatening. Coming down fast. Bargain for salvation. These stories give grace and hold space, for those who…
Shorts Programs

Indigenous NOW: Trees in the Wind

Program Indigenous NOW: Trees in the Wind Films depicting indigenous peoples living in nations now known as China, India, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Guam confront…
Shorts Programs

Kuwentuhan Lives

Program Kuwentuhan Lives Tall tales of the Philippine diaspora from the homeland and abroad. Navigating truths and the absurd.
Shorts Programs

LA Rebellion: Toward a More Perfect Rebellion — Conversations with Josslyn Luckett

Program LA Rebellion: Toward a More Perfect Rebellion — Conversations with Josslyn Luckett Spanning generations of filmmakers shaped by the LA Rebellion and UCLA’s Ethno-Communications program, this program revisits the urgency,…
Shorts Programs

Let It Flow

Program Let It Flow Explore what it means to connect, what it means to bridge, and to share, utilizing dance as a…
Shorts Programs

#LIFE #TIMES

Program #LIFE #TIMES Across time and space, these films explore finding your place on your own terms.
Shorts Programs, Special Presentations

Little Tokyo & Other Tales

Program Little Tokyo & Other Tales Encounter stories and spaces rooted in community, featuring our home neighborhood of Little Tokyo, elders who create healing…
Shorts Programs

MANZANAR + OUT OF THE DUST

Program MANZANAR + OUT OF THE DUST Experience reflections of Manzanar through dance and moving images, in honor of the works by Janice Mirikatani and…
Pacific Cinewaves, Shorts Programs

Pacific Cinewaves: Sites of Memory in Oceania

Program Pacific Cinewaves: Sites of Memory in Oceania For this year's LAAPFF’s Pacific Cinewaves program, we invite you on a journey to witness the cinematic narratives…
Shorts Programs, Special Presentations

Scribe Video Center presents: PRIMARY SOURCE

Program Scribe Video Center presents: PRIMARY SOURCE Primary Source is an initiative of Scribe Video Center that was designed to create journalistic community produced media…
Shorts Programs

The Space Between 3.0

Program The Space Between 3.0 This unique pairing of films from Iran explores the spaces and lenses through which the living revisit and…