Skip to Content

BETWEEN THE TIDES

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

Life exists in the pull between what we owe to others and what we owe to ourselves. Between the Tides explores the resilient, often invisible labor of love.

In this program


Barrio Chino Havana

Directed by Dr. Kiona, Jalena Keane-Lee

Barrio Chino Havana bears witness to how the last of the original Chinese immigrants in Cuba strive to keep their legacy alive through art in Havana’s fading Chinatown.

Bridging Our Stories

Directed by Rafael Bitanga

When the last Filipino community center in Ketchikan, Alaska, becomes a memory, a 50-year-old Filipina who spent her life resisting her heritage travels to the Philippines to rediscover her roots, preserving her community’s disappearing culture, and teaching indigenous Filipino dances.

Colors of the Sky’s End

Directed by Catherine Truc Cam Nguyen

A Vietnamese-American photographer seeking inspiration in Sa Dec, Vietnam discovers an abandoned baby, sparking a controversial creative journey that threatens her relationship and tests her moral and creative boundaries as she prepares for her next exhibition.

DASHER

Directed by Alexander Bocchieri

A down-and-out food delivery driver and a wayward restaurant worker team up for a chaotic night of deliveries on Christmas Eve in Honolulu.

No One Knows I Disappeared

Directed by Hanxiong Bo

In a wintry Chinese city under quiet surveillance, a caregiver’s search for a vanished elderly woman blurs into a haunting journey—where memory, identity, and the quietly erased lives of others begin to mirror her own.

Dates & Times