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Documentary
Documentaries
Blue Island
Film
Blue Island
Directed by Chan Tze-woon
Generations of people have been fighting for freedom in Hong Kong. Three characters speak of their fight as…
Documentaries
Blurring the Color Line
Film
Blurring the Color Line
Directed by Crystal Kwok
Asians were allowed to enroll in white schools, but was this simply an oversight? Where did the Chinese…
Documentaries
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Gala Presentations
Centerpiece Documentary: Bad Axe
Film
Centerpiece Documentary: Bad Axe
Directed by David Siev
On the eve of pandemic shutdowns, burgeoning filmmaker David Siev returns to his hometown of Bad Axe, Michigan,…
Crashing Wheels on Concrete
Film
Crashing Wheels on Concrete
Directed by So Young Shelly Yo
CRASHING WHEELS ON CONCRETE is a short documentary following Kat Sy, a skateboarder and software engineer, as she…
Crossroads
Film
Crossroads
Directed by Sarita Khurana
This film takes a close look at the recent “FedEx shooting” in Indianapolis, in the context of a…
Dear Nanay
Film
Dear Nanay
Directed by Frances Grace Mortel
A love letter to her grandmother, this experimental documentary explores the filmmaker’s early memories in the Philippines and…
Documentaries
Delikado
Film
Delikado
Directed by Karl Malakunas
A charismatic lawyer leads good men to their deaths, an ex-illegal logger seeks redemption, a grandmother politician defies…
Elvis of Laos
Film
Elvis of Laos
Directed by Van Ditthavong
After leaving war-torn Laos in late 1974, the Godfather of Lao Music joins forces with his son and…
Empire of my Melodious Mind
Film
Empire of my Melodious Mind
Directed by Jeanette Louie
In the space of a moment, inside a cabinet, perception embarks on an epic journey through the terrain…
Ever Wanting (For Margeret Chung)
Film
Ever Wanting (For Margeret Chung)
Directed by TT Takemoto
Plunging into the euphoria and despair of her profession and personal life, the first female Chinese American doctor…
Documentaries
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Gala Presentations
Opening Night + Gala: Free Chol Soo Lee
Film
Opening Night + Gala: Free Chol Soo Lee
Directed by Julie Ha and Eugene Yi
Asian American activists and Korean immigrants rally to free a death row inmate in a landmark movement in…
In Living Memory
Film
In Living Memory
Directed by Quyên Nguyen-Le
After the closure of their mother’s nail salon at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, a queer filmmaker…
Documentaries
In Search of Bengali Harlem
Film
In Search of Bengali Harlem
Directed by Alaudin Ullah, Vivek Bald
In Search of Bengali Harlem is a transformative journey, not just for Alaudin Ullah, but for our understanding…
It Takes the Hood to Save the Hood
Film
It Takes the Hood to Save the Hood
Directed by Harvey Magsaysay Lozada
A documentary short created with San Francisco-based violence prevention and youth development organization UNITED PLAYAZ.
Kāhuli
Film
Kāhuli
Directed by Chris A. Johns
Scientists in Hawaii race against time to save rare snails that are both culturally and ecologically significant.
Kåntan Hereru – A Black Smith’s Song
Film
Kåntan Hereru – A Black Smith’s Song
Directed by Sean Lizama
Guam’s only living Master blacksmith shares the importance of his craft to daily life in the past and…
Documentaries
Like a Rolling Stone: The Life and Times of Ben Fong-Torres
Film
Like a Rolling Stone: The Life and Times of Ben Fong-Torres
Directed by Suzanne Joe Kai
Rolling Stone magazine started in San Francisco but made waves across American pop culture. It was shaped and…
Malditas
Film
Malditas
Directed by Bree Nieves
Two AAPI/FilAm cousins, three years apart, meet in a rural Florida cemetery, and grapple with what remains of…
Documentaries
Mixed
Film
Mixed
Directed by Caty Borum Chattoo & Leena Jayaswal
It has been 50 years since Loving v. Virginia, a landmark case that ended the persecution of interracial…
My Chinatown, With Aloha
Film
My Chinatown, With Aloha
Directed by Kimberlee Bassford
Fourth-generation Chinese American Kimberlee Bassford explores her family’s relationship to Honolulu Chinatown and the parallels between the COVID-19…
My Name is Lai
Film
My Name is Lai
Directed by Lucy Saephan
Lai, a Mien American elder, shares her memories as a refugee survivor of war in hopes to heal…
On All Fronts
Film
On All Fronts
Directed by Joua Lee Grande
A Minneapolis family navigates difficult conversations about how the violence and racial reckoning of 2020-21 impacted them as…
Pili Ka Mo’o
Film
Pili Ka Mo’o
Directed by Justyn Ah Chong
The Fukumitsu ʻOhana (family) of Hakipuʻu are Native Hawaiian taro farmers and keepers of this generational practice. While…
Panels & Conversations
First Look: Plague at the Golden Gate
Special Event
First Look: Plague at the Golden Gate
This special presentation highlights excerpts from Li-Shin Yu’s documentary for PBS’ American Experience about the 1900 bubonic plague...
Recording for Dodie
Film
Recording for Dodie
Directed by Frances Rubio
After fourteen months physically apart, a Filipino daughter struggling with depression finally reunites with her COVID-survivor father at…
Shifting Sands
Film
Shifting Sands
Directed by May Thyn Kyi
Every year, thousands of young people like Ma Nwet Yin Win flock to Yangon from Myanmar’s rural dry…
The Lookout
Film
The Lookout
Directed by J.P. Dobrin
A Cambodian American refugee experiences freedom again after being behind bars for 20 years. But the potential of…
The Return
Film
The Return
Directed by Hena Ashraf
An analytical filmmaker wrestles with the sudden death of her estranged father—and the overwhelming agony brought upon by…
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