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CAAMFest2017

Films

  1. Finding Kukan

    Robin Lung / Docs / USA / 2016 / Documentary / 75 mins
    Robin Lung takes us on a winding journey to rediscover the long-lost Academy Award-winning documentary KUKAN, which afforded America a rare glimpse of China before and during the life-altering events of World War II. FINDING KUKAN explores questions of racial and gender prejudice, leaving us with much food for thought.
    Finding Kukan

    Alamo Drafthouse
    March 11, 2017 12:40 pm Buy Tickets Buy Tickets

    Finding Kukan

    New Parkway Theater
    March 18, 2017 3:20 pm Buy Tickets Buy Tickets


  2. Frequency

    Alireza Ghasemi / Shorts / Iran / 2016 / 8 mins
    A five-minute writing exercise on executing narrations is assigned to a class. One student, however, finds herself eerily caught up in the very story she is envisioning for the assignment.
    Plays In:
    FOR THE FAINT OF HEART – SHORTS

    Roxie Theater
    March 11, 2017 5:10 pm Buy Tickets Buy Tickets


  3. Gayle

    Kevin Wong and Todd Sills
    After 25 years as a caregiver, Gayle came to San Francisco to reignite her dream of making it as a Jazz singer. Now in her 60's, she lives in an SRO hotel at the edge of Nob Hill and the Tenderloin and is finally starting to get some regular gigs around the city.
    Plays In:
    Cinematic SF

    Alamo Drafthouse
    March 13, 2017 6:30 pm At Rush


  4. Golden Golden

    Erica Cho / Shorts / USA / 2016 / Drama / 14 mins
    Two broke San Bernardino 20-somethings make their way out to Los Angeles to learn about their own secret desires, via a fortune teller’s conjoined crystal balls. Through different settings and musical genres, space opens up for their desires and love for one another to run free.
    Plays In:
    IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE…MAYBE – SHORTS

    Roxie Theater
    March 10, 2017 9:40 pm Buy Tickets Buy Tickets


  5. Good Luck Soup

    Matthew Hashiguchi / Special Presentations / USA / 2016 / Documentary, Feature, Multimedia, New Media / Web / 56 mins
    Through home video footage and interviews with family members, filmmaker Matthew Hashiguchi explores his identity and tells the story of what it means to grow up mixed race in America’s heartland, Cleveland, Ohio.

    Preceded by: Seppuku

    Good Luck Soup

    New People Cinema
    March 18, 2017 9:20 pm At Rush


  6. Gook

    Justin Chon / Narrative / USA / 2017 / Narrative / 94 mins
    Drawn from his own childhood experience, Justin Chon’s sophomore directorial film shines a light on the Korean American experience during the 1992 L.A. Uprising. The film follows two Korean American brothers as they struggle to maintain their family’s shoe repair shop and their unlikely friendship with a young African American girl. Set against brewing tensions in the aftermath of the Rodney King verdict, GOOK highlights the continued relevance of the riots 25 years later.
    Gook

    Alamo Drafthouse
    March 11, 2017 9:00 pm At Rush


  7. Guangzhou Dream Factory

    Christiane Badgley / Cinema Asia / USA / 2016 / Documentary / 65 mins
    The prospect of striking it rich in China has captured the imagination of people from Dakar to Nairobi, but how much of this “Chinese dream” is accessible to people from African countries? From the “suit king” of Cameroon to a victim of visa fraud, GUANGZHOU DREAM FACTORY reveals their stories.

    Preceded by: Basha Man

    Guangzhou Dream Factory

    Alamo Drafthouse
    March 15, 2017 6:20 pm Buy Tickets Buy Tickets

    Guangzhou Dream Factory

    New Parkway Theater
    March 18, 2017 1:00 pm At Rush


  8. GUNKANJIMA: Traveler in Time

    Kiichiro Nakamura / Shorts / Japan / 2015 / Documentary, Experimental, Short / 7 mins
    Gunkanjima—battleship island—once housed thousands of people. Now empty, the buildings play host to a lone photographer searching for what was lost.
    Plays In:
    DIS/SPACE/MENT – SHORTS

    Roxie Theater
    March 12, 2017 7:10 pm Buy Tickets Buy Tickets


  9. Halmoni

    Anna Oh / Shorts / USA / 2016 / Asian American, Citizenship, Family, Immigration, Korean American, Undocumented / 22 mins
    When he started to apply for college, Ju Hong realized that he had come to the US as an undocumented immigrant. Now an activist and DREAMer, Hong returns to South Korea after 13 years to see a grandmother who is fading away.
    Plays In:
    DIS/SPACE/MENT – SHORTS

    Roxie Theater
    March 12, 2017 7:10 pm Buy Tickets Buy Tickets


  10. Hang In There, Kids!

    Laha Mebow / Cinema Asia / Taiwan / 2015 / Narrative / 90 mins
    A trio of young indigenous boys from rural Taiwan take their last sixth grade field trip to Taipei. They surprise their disabled after-school instructor (Albee Huang) and find answers to some of their own troubles. The 2016 Taipei Film Festival Grand Prize winner is Taiwan’s entry for the 2017 Academy Awards.
    Hang In There, Kids!

    Roxie Theater
    March 10, 2017 5:15 pm Buy Tickets Buy Tickets