Films
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Raymond
Nina Yuen / Shorts / USA / 2014 / Short / 11 mins
Daydreams and musings, life and the universe, and the name of every person he’s known who has died begin to draw a portrait of Yuen’s father, who ruminates while this New Jersey-based artist constructs a fragmented, inspired and poignant imagistic universe to match.
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Reflections of Union Square
Samati Boonchitsitsak / Shorts / USA / 2014 / Experimental, Short / 4 mins
This luminous short refracts light and shadow, using mirrors and translucent objects to illuminate a new view of San Francisco’s Union Square. Directed by Samati Boochitsitsak, REFLECTIONS ON UNION SQUARE won Best Experimental Film at CityShorts14, San Francisco.
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River of Exploding Durians
Edmund Yeo / CinemAsia / Malaysia / 2014 / 128 mins
In a small Malaysian town, two disparate stories threaten to converge — a tale of young love begins to unwind while a radioactive construction site rises on the city’s edge. In a disquieting coming-of-age, three young women must grapple with the repercussions of love and political activism.River of Exploding Durians
Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
March 15, 2015 9:10 pm Not AvailableRiver of Exploding Durians
Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
March 19, 2015 9:00 pm Not Available
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The Seed of Need
Manuel Roman / Shorts / China, France, USA / 2014 / Short / 19 mins
Jingjing has traveled the world in search of a meaning to her life. In cities like Paris, Rome and Las Vegas, she finds romance and intrigue. Only when Jingjing releases the trappings of her life does she find what she was looking for all along.
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Seoul Searching
Benson Lee / Gala Presentations / South Korea, USA / 2015 / Comedy, Culture, Family, Narrative / 105 mins
Fresh off its world premiere at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, CAAMFest 2015 opens with SEOUL SEARCHING, directed by award winning Korean-American director Benson Lee, Set in the 1980s and inspired by Lee’s own personal experiences, SEOUL SEARCHING is a fun coming-of-age feature, chronicling the shenanigans and personal journeys of a group of international Korean teens sent to a government-sponsored summer camp for a crash course in Korean culture.Precedes: Opening Night Gala
Seoul Searching
Castro Theatre
March 12, 2015 6:30 pm Not Available
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Sex, Politics, and Sticky Rice
Tina Takemoto / Shorts / USA / 2014 / Documentary, Short / 8 mins
From protests to potlucks and even three-ways, filmmaker Tina Takemoto sheds light on an overlooked aspect of LGBT history. Stories are told and experiences are recounted from five of the first generation of Asian Pacific Islander queer activists from the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1980s.
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She Lights Up Well
Joyce Wu / Narrative / USA / 2014 / Narrative / 80 mins
“Can you scream a little more Asian?” is the defining question of Sophie’s acting career. With dwindling funds and no job prospects, Sophie reluctantly leaves New York for her family’s home in Detroit. There, she becomes embroiled in a plot to save the community theater’s production of “The Mikado.”She Lights Up Well
New People Cinema
March 15, 2015 9:00 pm Not AvailableShe Lights Up Well
New People Cinema
March 16, 2015 7:20 pm Not Available
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The Sisterhood of Night
Caryn Waechter / Narrative / USA / 2014 / 103 mins
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.The Sisterhood of Night
Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
March 13, 2015 7:00 pm Not AvailableThe Sisterhood of Night
Pacific Film Archive
March 14, 2015 5:45 pm Not AvailableThe Sisterhood of Night
New People Cinema
March 16, 2015 9:10 pm Not Available
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Snipers in the Trees
Curtis Choy / Shorts / USA / 1985 / Experimental, Short / 12 mins
Curtis Choy’s (FALL OF THE I-HOTEL) early free-wheeling experimental shorts are a portrait of a vital San Francisco arts scene and a blistering, tongue-in-cheek comic assault on all those powers that (still) need checking. In seven wildly contrasting episodes — including “Burros at Taco Bell” and “Hip-Shaking C-Town” — race, cultural politics and place are skewered with Choy’s mondo-humor, where revolutionaries take a bao break, and macho men get down. Appearances by Janice Mirikitani, Lane Nishikawa, Marc Hayashi and more.
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A Soccer Story
Liliana Suizbach / Shorts / Japan / 2014 / Narrative, Short / 12 mins
Two football teams from Tokyo head to a football pitch by the sea in Kozu Island. During the match, a young player, Kazu, has to play against his hometown team. How will Kazu perform in front of his local community in such a situation?
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