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CAAMFest 2013

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    When Night Falls

    Ying Liang / CinemAsia / China, South Korea / 2012 / Social Issue / 70 mins
    Acclaimed director Ying Liang, “one of the world’s best young filmmakers” (The New Yorker), dramatizes the controversial real-life tale of Yang Jia, a young man who stabbed six policemen to death in Shanghai after being abused by officers. “A movie China doesn’t want you to see” (The New Yorker).
    When Night Falls

    Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
    March 16, 2013 5:20 pm Buy Tickets Buy Tickets

    When Night Falls

    Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
    March 17, 2013 3:00 pm Buy Tickets Buy Tickets

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    When The Bough Breaks

    Ji Dan / CinemAsia / China / 2011 / Experimental / 147 mins
    Two young girls and their brother struggle to improve their lives—with little to no help from their parents—in this powerful, unblinking documentary on the underclass in China, directed by one of China’s top female filmmakers. Winner, Best Documentary film, 2012 Millenium Festival. This screening is presented in partnership with the Oakland Museum of California.
    When The Bough Breaks

    New People
    March 21, 2013 7:00 pm Buy Tickets Buy Tickets

    When The Bough Breaks

    Oakland Museum of California
    March 23, 2013 2:00 pm Buy Tickets Buy Tickets

  3. WRENCH IN THE WORKS

    Shorts / 92 mins
    This one is for the eager beggar. The regretful thug. The plus-sized backup dancer, and the refugee brimming with heart. Take a second glance, for you have met them before. This program follows the stories of envelope pushing outcasts: the deviants, outsiders and iconoclasts who force us to question one another and ourselves. - Curated by Elizabeth Cabrera, Kyle Casey Chu

    In This Program: Anti-versary, Banzai Rising, Born to Dance this Way, Dawn, Footsteps, Little Mao, Shaya

    WRENCH IN THE WORKS

    Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
    March 17, 2013 12:15 pm Buy Tickets Buy Tickets

    WRENCH IN THE WORKS

    New People
    March 18, 2013 8:30 pm Buy Tickets Buy Tickets

  4. WYSIWYG

    Shorts / 89 mins
    Whether pursuing success in media or simply desiring peace at home, the subjects of these films are faced with fulfilling an image of who they should be and how they should act. Featuring At Your Convenience, starring Randall Park. - Curated by Julie Hwang, Youngbin Kwon.

    In This Program: At Your Convenience, More than a Face in the Crowd, Mother and Child, …Or Die, Screaming in Asian, TaiwanFamous

    WYSIWYG – SHORTS

    New People
    March 16, 2013 4:20 pm Buy Tickets Buy Tickets

    WYSIWYG – SHORTS

    Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
    March 17, 2013 5:00 pm Buy Tickets Buy Tickets

    WYSIWYG – SHORTS

    Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
    March 21, 2013 9:00 pm Buy Tickets Buy Tickets

  5. Xmas Without China

    Alicia Dwyer, Tom Xia / Documentaries / USA / 2012 / Documentary / 62 mins
    Officially selected to World Premiere at the 2013 SXSW Film Festival, Xmas Without China is a feature documentary about two families living side by side, but worlds apart, collide when pride and mischief inspire Chinese immigrant Tom Xia to challenge his American neighbors to celebrate Christmas without any Chinese products.
    Xmas without China

    Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
    March 15, 2013 9:10 pm Buy Tickets Buy Tickets

    Xmas without China

    Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
    March 18, 2013 6:30 pm Buy Tickets Buy Tickets

    Xmas without China

    New People
    March 24, 2013 7:30 pm Rush Only