CAAMFest in Berkeley
Berkeley’s best spots to eat, drink & catch CAAMFest 2015.
March 13, 2015
Tales
TALES is a strategically pieced puzzle of working-class protagonists all trying to get their voices heard. This thoughtful film captures a series of intimate portraits in the lives of interweaving characters. Rakhshan Banietemad’s latest is a treasure box of stories filled with compassionate screenwriting.
Hollow
Keep your morals in check, because they may come back to haunt you. From the director of HOW TO FIGHT IN SIX INCH HEELS, Ham Tran’s HOLLOW features the story of a family terrorized by their dead daughter, Ai, who has come back to life, possessed by a vengeful spirit.
March 14, 2015
The Sisterhood of Night
The friendship between three high school girls leads to a series of increasingly dangerous events, throwing their community into a modern-day witch-hunt. SISTERHOOD pulls together a wide variety of cultural touchstones, from the Salem witch trials to cyberbullying, to show the power of silence and finding a voice.
Cicada
As a schoolteacher, Jumpei is surrounded by kids and adults who haven’t quite grown up. When Jumpei finds out he’s infertile, he’s given an opportunity to deepen his relationships with the big and little kids that already surround him every day.
March 15, 2015
Kumu Hina
Amidst the growing influence of Westernization, a transgender hula teacher strives to keep Native Hawaiian culture prosperous. On a subject rarely spoken of in Hawaii, this documentary pushes the struggles of being “in the middle” to the surface.
La Salada
Argentina’s bustling La Salada, an enormous discount market just outside of Buenos
Aires, provides the nucleus for Juan Martín Hsu’s affecting directorial debut. His
ensemble cast is comprised of Korean, Taiwanese and Bolivian immigrants, whose
experiences converge and dance parallel to one another with equal parts poignancy
and banality.
Nuoc 2030
Love, death and global warming all play a role in the sci-fi mystery by acclaimed writer-director Nghiem-Minh Nguyen-Vo (BUFFALO BOY). The film paints a haunting, and cinematically gorgeous, dystopia as a woman fights to learn the truth behind her husband's death.
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