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FROM VISIONS TO REEL: LIVING LEGACY

Filmmakers in attendance. Film program will be followed by Q&A.

Welcome to your life: Google translate, pastries, dildos, suburbia, calls to your mom, kung fu, deceitful karaoke, and being the last of your kind. Reflect on what you have been given and what it means to leave a legacy of your own.

In this program


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)

Directed by Pacqui Pascual

When their father dies during their mother’s hospitalization, a Filipino family bands together to hide the truth.

CHECK PLEASE

Directed by Shane Chung

Two headstrong Koreans can’t agree on who’s treating who to dinner, causing their casual restaurant outing to spiral into a deadly duel.

Endling

Directed by Kelly Yu

A documentary crew interviews the man in charge of taking care of the last goldfish on earth.

Fruit Tart

Directed by Caitlyn Phu

While embarking on a lonely journey home after missing her train, a girl’s insecurities manifest in the form of a talking fruit tart.

Memory Palace

Directed by Steven Gong

After college, Steven revisits the places that defined each era of his life: early adolescence in the suburbs, fresh independence in San Francisco, and his parents’ hometown in Shanghai.

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 a first date.

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 one day become a cultural stranger under western influences.

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