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Programs

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


Shorts Programs

Cinema Musica: (Un)Spoken Feelings

Program Cinema Musica: (Un)Spoken Feelings Kickoff LAAPFF 2025 during our Opening Night Party, and come watch MTV – VC style! Dive into music…

CINEMA MUSICA: FESTIVAL LAUNCH PARTY

Special Event CINEMA MUSICA: FESTIVAL LAUNCH PARTY Kickoff LAAPFF 2025 during our Opening Night Party, and come watch MTV – VC style! Dive into music…
Shorts Programs, Special Presentations

Color Congress presents Resistance & Joy: Reclaiming Power

Program Color Congress presents Resistance & Joy: Reclaiming Power From cultural preservation to political resistance, this block of films showcase the ways people organize, resist oppression, and…
Shorts Programs

Echoes From Beyond

Program Echoes From Beyond Journey through memory and the mysterious forces that shape our past and future. From indigenous cosmology to ancient…
Shorts Programs

From Visions to Reel: Living Legacy

Program From Visions to Reel: Living Legacy Welcome to your life: Google translate, pastries, dildos, suburbia, calls to your mom, kung fu, deceitful karaoke, and…
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.