All Films & Events
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Flip The Record
Marie Jamora / Philippines, USA / 2016 / 15 mins
In this 1980s coming-of-age story set to pulsing hip-hop music, a Filipino-American teen discovers her identity through a budding talent for turntablism.
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Float
Tristan Seniuk, Voleak Sip / USA / 2016 / 24 mins
FLOAT is a short film set in Seattle in the mid-1990s, following the day-to-day trials and tribulations of Cambodian-American hustler, Rocky Mang.
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Forever, Chinatown
James Q. Chan / Shorts Competition, Programmers' Picks / USA / 2016 / 32 mins
FOREVER, CHINATOWN is the story of unknown, self-taught 81-year-old artist Frank Wong who has spent the past four decades recreating his fading memories by building romantic, extraordinarily detailed miniature models of the San Francisco Chinatown rooms of his youth.
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Fragile (a portrait of Gil Batle)
Nilo Batle / USA / 2016 / 9 mins
Artist Gil Batle was raised in San Francisco and spent 20 years of his life in five different California prisons where his artistic abilities protected him from violence. He now finds sanctuary and solace on an island in the Philippines, where he uses his talents to carve haunting images onto ostrich eggs.
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Funky Pawa
Kartik Shah, Shivangi Ranawat, Janmeet Singh, Pranay Patwardhan / India / 2014 / 3 mins
Following the lively sound of a flute set to a funky beat, villagers young and old dance, laugh and play in this joyful invocation of the Divine Mother by the band Maati-Baani.
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Geeta’s Guide To Moving On
Phil White, Reshmi Hazra Rustebakke / USA / 2016 / 20 mins
Geeta Gidwani is an all-American girl, who’s hopelessly in love with her Indian-American Prince Charming...until one day he dumps her. She’s totally heartbroken, moves in with her Indian family, and wackiness ensues. Geeta’s forced to learn to move on, and find self-acceptance with the help of her family and her best friend.Plays In:
The Big Picture, In Bite-Sized Chunks: APAs And Webisodic Series
Tateuchi Democracy Forum
April 30, 2017 12:00 pm
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Ghost Magnet Roach Motel
Shinpei Takeda / Documentary Competition, Programmers' Picks / Germany, Japan, Mexico / 2016 / 70 mins
The Punk Musical by artist Shinpei Takeda follows the off-stage life of 5 artists (2 American musicians, 2 Mexican artists and 1 Japanese filmmaker) of GHOST MAGNET ROACH MOTEL, a noise punkformance unit born in Tijuana, Mexico in their process of overcoming their psychological border. With a literally crashing border between Mexico and USA as the background, the protagonists confront each individual’s addictions while searching for an answer to their existential crises.Preceded by: A Doll’s Hug
GHOST MAGNET ROACH MOTEL
CGV Cinemas 2
May 3, 2017 9:30 pm
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Hello From the Other Side
Sarai McKenzie, Maria Gonzalez / USA / 2016 / 6 mins
Hello From the Other Side is an introduction to understanding homelessness. Through Adele's "Hello" and people's real-life experiences common misconceptions about homelessness are debunked, voices that have long been silenced are heard, and for most folks, despite their trauma and shame, have began their journey of healing.
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Hold Me (Ca Caw Ca Caw)
Renee Zhan / Shorts Competition, Programmers' Picks / USA / 2016 / 11 mins
HOLD ME (CA CAW CA CAW) is an 11 minute animated film about the troubled relationship between a large bird and a small boy. The film features hand-drawn 2D animation, as well as ink and watercolor painted backgrounds.
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Hold On
Christine Turner / USA / 2017 / 9 mins
Family bonds are tested when a young man is left to care for his grandmother one morning.Precedes: Gook
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Hum
Crystal Jow / USA / 2017 / 2 mins
An experimental sand animation of a man struggling to find inner peace before entering the afterlife. The transition states prepping for death refer to the three “bardos” from the Tibetan Book of the Dead: ego lost, hallucination, and re-entry.
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I am JUPITER I am the BIGGEST PLANET
Matthew Victor Pastor / Shorts Competition, Programmers' Picks / Australia, Philippines / 2016 / 14 mins
Silence in the red light district of Manila.
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I Can, I Will, I Did
Nadine Truong / Narrative Competition / USA / 2016 / 113 mins
Depressed foster youth Ben is bullied, and as a result gets into a car accident. His recovery process is slow until he meets Adrienne, a fellow wheelchair bound patient at the hospital who breathes hope into his life when she introduces him to her grandfather, Taekwondo Master Kang. Kang not only teaches him how to walk and get back up on his feet, but also how to take charge of his own life.I CAN, I WILL, I DID
Aratani Theatre
April 28, 2017 8:00 pm
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I Don’t Love You
Mara De La Rosa / USA / 2017 / 5 mins
Benji and Malou are newlyweds with a baby on the way. Malou is Benji’s world, and she has what should be a picture perfect life: a doting husband, a nice house, and a life in America. But, Malou is hiding a secret, shocking enough to tear their worlds apart. Secrets and lies brew as a dark truth will soon be served over dinner.
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I Won’t Miss You
Bernard Badion / Programmers' Picks / USA / 2016 / 20 mins
17-year-old Janey’s best friend, Tim, begins to appear in her bedroom at night after dying in a car crash; and their awkward undeclared feelings begin to surface.
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