All Films & Events
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Reseba – The Dark Wind
Hussein Hassan / International Competition, Programmers' Picks / Germany, Iraq, Qatar / 2016 / 91 mins
Radical Islamist militants attack a village in Iraq, where two young Yazidi prepare for marriage. From that moment onwards, their lives are turned into a nightmare.RESEBA – THE DARK WIND
Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
May 3, 2017 6:00 pm FREE, Check-In at Box Office
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David And Goliath
Rachel Lee / Programmers' Picks / USA / 2016 / 5 mins
In a small, suburban neighborhood, a mom and pop donut shop comes face-to-face with one of the largest donut corporations in America.
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Death in a Day
Lin Wang / USA / 2016 / 14 mins
Evan, a young Chinese boy, must come to grips with the impending death falling upon his family after visiting his comatose father, and witnessing his mother’s struggle.
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Deer God
Tomorrow Mingtian / Shorts Competition, Programmers' Picks / China, USA / 2016 / 14 mins
Old Guan, a native Oroqen hunter, goes into the woods to shoot "donkey deer" before his family leaves for America.
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Disintegration 93-96
Miko Revereza / USA / 2017 / 5 mins
A pop culture meditation on the Filipino American undocumented experience, DISINTEGRATION 93-96 is a deconstruction of 90s home movies and the traditional family models.
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Divine XY
Ruelo Zendo / Philippines / 2016 / 14 mins
Gender troubles and bureaucratic intricacies plague a hopeful overseas worker. How far will Divine go to leave her country?
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Dollar Tree
Cecilia Ribordy, Ariel Hyman, Josh Soares, Natasha Mandt-Rauch / USA / 2016 / 3 mins
DOLLAR TREE is a student short film by Cecilia Ribordy, Natasha Maundt-Rauch, Ariel Hyman, and Josh Soares. It highlights the harsh realities of deforestation by personifying its driving force. This film is a powerful look into the justice aspect of the environment.
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A Doll’s Hug
Rob Chihwen Lo / Taiwan, USA / 2016 / 20 mins
A Taiwanese boy learns to fight back from the threatening violence in his Barbie doll world.Precedes: Ghost Magnet Roach Motel
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Dots
Chen-Wen Lo / Taiwan / 2016 / 16 mins
A teenage girl whose vision is fading goes on a solo journey to gather the textures of light before going completely blind, and shares her new way of "seeing" with her mother.
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Droga!
Miko Revereza / USA / 2014 / 8 mins
DROGA! is a personal meditation about the experience of the Filipino diaspora. It explores both the physical and emotional spaces of many immigrants who are living in a state of exile in the US. The filmmaker documents his grandparents, and his own assimilation to American life to reveal a larger colonized mentality in a personal and historical context.
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The Drone and the Kid
Imran J. Khan / Pakistan, Singapore, USA / 2016 / 13 mins
A lonely Pakistani boy finds the camera device from a crashed U.S. military drone, and is finally able to get the attention he craves when he discovers it is still able to transmit to the American drone operator on the other side.
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Emma And The Butt
Carmen Liang, Steven Liang / USA / 2017 / 5 mins
Imaginative little Emma tries to get the love and attention of her overworked father.
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Escaping Agra
Pallavi Somusetty / India, USA / 2016 / 23 mins
ESCAPING AGRA is a 23-minute documentary about Naveen Bhat, who is trapped in India after their parents find out about their gender and sexual orientation. ESCAPING AGRA documents their journey to battle their parents in court, and piece their life back together. Please note: Naveen, whose gender is non-binary, uses they/them pronouns.
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Finding Ronwe
Angela Paviera / USA / 2017 / 15 mins
Kailani and Nobu rekindle an old friendship and together they search for two criminal con artists.
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F**ked Up
Kevin Lau / 17 mins
A know-it-all Asian American teen tries to prove herself by losing her virginity on the first day of college.
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