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CAAMFest 2015

Films

  1. 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.
    Plays In:
    PLAYTIME (SHORTS)

    Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
    March 15, 2015 5:00 pm Not Available

    Plays In:
    PLAYTIME (SHORTS)

    Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
    March 16, 2015 5:20 pm Not Available


  2. 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.
    Plays In:
    THE HOME PROMISED (SHORTS)

    Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
    March 15, 2015 12:10 pm Not Available

    Plays In:
    THE HOME PROMISED (SHORTS)

    Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
    March 17, 2015 5:45 pm Not Available


  3. 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 Available

    River of Exploding Durians

    Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
    March 19, 2015 9:00 pm Not Available


  4. 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.
    Plays In:
    FALLING (SHORTS)

    Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
    March 14, 2015 9:40 pm Not Available

    Plays In:
    FALLING (SHORTS)

    Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
    March 16, 2015 9:30 pm Not Available

    Plays In:
    FALLING (SHORTS)

    New People Cinema
    March 20, 2015 9:20 pm Not Available


  5. 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

    Precedes:
    Opening Night Gala

    Asian Art Museum
    March 12, 2015 9:30 pm Not Available


  6. 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.
    Plays In:
    OUT/HERE (SHORTS)

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


  7. 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 Available

    She Lights Up Well

    New People Cinema
    March 16, 2015 7:20 pm Not Available


  8. 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 Available

    The Sisterhood of Night

    Pacific Film Archive
    March 14, 2015 5:45 pm Not Available

    The Sisterhood of Night

    New People Cinema
    March 16, 2015 9:10 pm Not Available


  9. 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.
    Plays In:
    PLAYTIME (SHORTS)

    Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
    March 15, 2015 5:00 pm Not Available

    Plays In:
    PLAYTIME (SHORTS)

    Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
    March 16, 2015 5:20 pm Not Available


  10. 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?
    Plays In:
    SHORT SHORTS (SHORTS)

    Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
    March 14, 2015 5:10 pm Not Available

    Plays In:
    SHORT SHORTS (SHORTS)

    Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
    March 19, 2015 5:10 pm Not Available