All That We Love
Get Tickets OPENING NIGHT NARRATIVEALL THAT WE LOVEDirected by Yen TanNarrative | 90 Minutes | English | New England Premiere Thursday, Oct. 17, 7:00PM EST Brattle Theatre 40 Brattle St. Cambridge, MA Q&A with filmmaker “Director Yen Tan’s All That We Love is a lesson in how to make the ordinary feel extraordinary, with each […]
Ashima
Buy Tickets ASHIMADirected by Kenji TsukamotoDocumentary | 86 Minutes | English, Japanese with English subtitles | New England Premier Sunday, Oct. 20, 1:30PM EST Emerson Paramount Center 559 Washington St. Boston, MA Q&A with filmmakers ASHIMA is an intimate portrait of elite rock climber Ashima Shiraishi as she travels to South Africa to try to […]
New Wave (Preceded by No More Sad Songs)
Buy Tickets NEW WAVEDirected, written and produced by Elizabeth AiDocumentary | 89 Minutes | English, Vietnamese with English subtitles | Boston Premiere Saturday, Oct. 19, 8:30PM EST Emerson Paramount Center 559 Washington St. Boston, MA Q&A with filmmakers Filmmaker Elizabeth Ai embarks on a project to tell a story of joy and youthful defiance as […]
Future Date
Buy Tickets FUTURE DATEDirected by Stanley WongNarrative| 81 Minutes | English | New England Premiere Saturday, Oct. 19, 5:00PM EST Emerson Paramount Center 559 Washington St. Boston, MA Q&A with filmmakers Starring Stanley Wong (THE BIG SHORT), Shuang Hu (star/producer/co-writer of the Amazon original FIVE BLIND DATES) and Johnny Pemberton (Amazon’s hit series FALLOUT), FUTURE […]
Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement
Buy Tickets CENTERPIECE DOCUMENTARYNOBUKO MIYAMOTO: A SONG IN MOVEMENTDirected by Tadashi Nakamura, Quyên Nguyen-LeDocumentary | 55 Minutes | English | Boston Premiere Preceded by Musical Introduction by Judo Club and Stop Asian Hate Love One Another by Perry Yung Friday, Oct. 18, 6:00PM EST Emerson Paramount Center 559 Washington St. Boston, MA Q&A with filmmakers […]
B-Side: For Taylor
Get Tickets Directed by Christina YR LimNarrative| 99 Minutes | English/Korean A year after the sudden death of her mother, TAYLOR, a 14-year-old adoptee has secretly grown obsessed with finding her birth family in Korea. The loss has also taken a severe toll on her relationship with her father, BILL, a high school teacher who […]
Starring Jerry As Himself (Preceded by Closing Dynasty)
Buy Tickets Directed by Law ChenNarrative| 75 Minutes | English/Mandarin A family documents how their immigrant father Jerry, a recently retired Florida man, was recruited by the Chinese police to be an undercover agent, only to discover a darker truth. Closing Dynasty (precedes Starring Jerry As Himself) Directed by Lloyd Lee ChoiNarrative| 16 minutes | […]
Finding Her Beat (Preceded by Gund Kwok)
Buy Tickets Directed by Dawn Mikkelson, Keri PickettDocumentary | 88 Minutes | English/Japanese A master of Japanese drumming and a Korean adoptee from Minnesota boldly convene an all-female troupe to perform Taiko, the Japanese drumming art that has been off-limits to women for centuries. As the early menace of Covid rumbles in the background, the […]
Accidental Getaway Driver
Get Tickets Directed by Sing J. LeeNarrative| 114 Minutes | English/Vietnamese| New England Premiere During a routine pickup, an elderly Vietnamese cab driver is taken hostage at gunpoint by three recently escaped Orange County convicts. Q&A with filmmaker follows film
Photographic Justice: The Corky Lee Story
Get Tickets Directed by Jennifer TakakiDocumentary | 87 Minutes | English | Boston Premiere An intimate portrait of the life, work, and advocacy of pioneering Chinese American photographer Corky Lee. Director Jennifer Takaki followed Corky Lee for nearly 20 years, documenting triumphs and tragedy. Her film offers a unique and moving memorial to one man’s […]