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CAAMFest 2015

Films

  1. Dandekar Makes a Sandwich

    Leena Pendharkar / Shorts / USA / 2014 / Narrative, Short / 8 mins
    Anyone who has worked customer service knows, it is always the pickiest and persistent customers that are the worst to help. As Dandekar shops for sandwich ingredients in a grocery store, the resulting product is quite worth the effort.
    Plays In:
    FLIPSIDE (SHORTS)

    Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
    March 14, 2015 12:15 pm Not Available

    Plays In:
    FLIPSIDE (SHORTS)

    Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
    March 18, 2015 9:25 pm Not Available

  2. Dead Meadows

    Jaime Lastimosa / Shorts / Philippines / 2013 / Bay Area Connection, Music Video / 3 mins
    When the world finally ends, this is the music video you will want playing out the human race.
    Plays In:
    TALES OF TOMORROW (SHORTS)

    Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
    March 13, 2015 9:40 pm Not Available

    Plays In:
    TALES OF TOMORROW (SHORTS)

    Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
    March 15, 2015 2:40 pm Not Available

  3. Deconstructing My Depression

    Sally Tran / Shorts / USA / 2013 / Bay Area Connection, Family, Gay/Lesbian / 9 mins
    Mental illness is often an ignored issue in communities of color — passed off as an issue experienced only by the rich and the privileged. In this personal narrative, filmmaker Sally Tran breaks down her struggles with depression — as a first-generation Vietnamese American and as a member of the queer community.
    Plays In:
    OUT/HERE (SHORTS)

    Castro Theatre
    March 15, 2015 12:00 pm Not Available

  4. Distance Between

    R.J. Lozada / Shorts / USA / 2014 / Documentary, Short / 9 mins
    Filmmaker R.J. Lozada has offered to be a sperm donor for a lesbian couple wanting to conceive. Knowing that he might not play an active part of the child’s life, this documentary serves as a sort of love letter to the child, in an attempt to establish a paternal bond.
    Plays In:
    OUT/HERE (SHORTS)

    Castro Theatre
    March 15, 2015 12:00 pm Not Available

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    Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Roll

    John Pirozzi / Directions in Sound / Cambodia, France, USA / 2014 / 105 mins
    April 17 marks the 40th anniversary of Cambodia’s fall to the Khmer Rouge. This brilliant film reveals the beauty and vibrancy of Cambodian music pre-1975, showcasing talented artists who perished in the genocide. Their music lives on, and their country is once again filled with song: mournful, resilient, hopeful.
    Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Roll

    Pacific Film Archive
    March 18, 2015 7:00 pm Rush Only

    Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Roll

    Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
    March 19, 2015 6:30 pm Rush Only

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    Dot 2 Dot

    Amos Why / CinemAsia / Hong Kong / 2014 / 89 mins
    After relocating nearby to his childhood home in Hong Kong, Chung deliberately engages in what he calls “slow living.” When his cryptic dot graffiti is deciphered by a lovely Mandarin teacher, they risk arrest in a series of public declarations of love for their city and, ultimately, each other.
    Dot 2 Dot

    Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
    March 16, 2015 7:20 pm Not Available

    Dot 2 Dot

    Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
    March 18, 2015 9:00 pm Not Available

  7. Employed Identity

    Bao Nguyen / Shorts
    EMPLOYED IDENTITY explores the phenomenon of Vietnamese abroad returning to the country of their parents’ birth, to find both themselves and successful careers. This year's EMPLOYED IDENTITY features Ham Tran, director and writer of HOLLOW, a feature film filled with horror and vengeance.

    Precedes: Hollow

    Precedes:
    Hollow

    Pacific Film Archive
    March 13, 2015 8:50 pm Not Available

    Precedes:
    Hollow

    Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
    March 14, 2015 9:15 pm Not Available

  8. Finger Running

    Diana Li / Shorts / USA / 2014 / Bay Area Connection, Experimental, Short / 9 mins
    Two women run their fingers through eachother's hair in an experimental performance that mimics gestures of desire and intimacy.
    Plays In:
    OUT/HERE (SHORTS)

    Castro Theatre
    March 15, 2015 12:00 pm Not Available

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    Flowing Stories

    Jessey Tsang Tsui-shan / CinemAsia / France, Hong Kong / 2014 / Documentary / 97 mins
    Hong Kong Film Awards’ Best New Director Tsang asks us to consider what connects us to a piece of earth time and time again. This documentary weaves a revelatory tale of one family’s ties to place through the 400-year-old Ho-Chung Village Festival held every 10 years.
    Flowing Stories

    Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
    March 13, 2015 5:10 pm Not Available

    Flowing Stories

    Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
    March 19, 2015 7:00 pm Not Available

  10. Forbidden City, U.S.A.

    Arthur Dong / Special Presentations / USA / 1989 / Bay Area Connection / 56 mins
    Swing back in time to Chinatown in the 1930s in a premiere of the new digitally remastered version of FORBIDDEN CITY, U.S.A. CAAM celebrates Arthur Dong’s documentary with live perfor- mances and a reading of excerpts from the book by Dong himself — Forbidden City, USA: Chinese American Night Clubs, 1936-1970.
    Forbidden City, U.S.A.

    The Great Star
    March 14, 2015 4:00 pm Rush Only