Nurse Unseen
Get Tickets Directed by Michele Rae JosueDocumentary | 92 Minutes | English/Tagalog | Boston/New England Premiere NURSE UNSEEN explores the little-known history and humanity of the unsung Filipino nurses risking their lives on the frontlines while facing a resurgence of anti-Asian hate in the streets. The film unearths the colonial ties between the Philippines and […]
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Free Chol Soo Lee
Get Tickets Directed by Julie Ha and Eugene YiDocumentary | 83 Minutes | English In 1970s San Francisco, 20-year-old Korean immigrant Chol Soo Lee is racially profiled and convicted of a Chinatown gang murder. Sentenced to life, he spends years fighting to survive until investigative journalist K.W. Lee takes a special interest in his case, […]
Bad Axe
Buy Tickets Directed by David SievDocumentary| 100 Minutes | USA | English | Boston PremiereQ&A with Director David Siev and parents Chun and Rachel Siev after the screening. After leaving NYC for his rural hometown of Bad Axe, MI at the start of the pandemic, an Asian-American filmmaker documents his family’s struggles to keep their […]
Golden Delicious
Buy Tickets Directed by Jason KarmanNarrative| 120 Minutes | USA | English | East Coast PremiereVirtual Q&A with Director Jason Karmanafter the screening. When basketball-obsessed Aleks moves in across the street, Asian-Canadian teen Jake finds himself trying out for the basketball team to get his attention in this classic coming-of-age drama set in the digital […]
In Search of Bengali Harlem
Buy Tickets Directed by Vivek Bald and Alaudin UllahDocumentary | 85 Minutes | USA | English/Bengali| Boston PremiereQ&A with Directors Vivek Bald and Alaudin Ullah after the screening. As a teenager in 1980s Harlem, Alaudin Ullah was swept up in the revolutionary energy of early hip-hop. He rejected his working-class Bangladeshi parents and turned his […]
Dawning
Buy Tickets Directed by Young Min KimNarrative/Psychological Thriller | 74 Minutes | USA | English/Korean | East Coast PremiereIn-person Q&A with Directors Patrick Chen and Young Min Kim after the screening. A trauma therapist, Haejin Park, is forced to face her family’s darkest past after she returns to her childhood countryside-farm to console her heartbroken […]
Crossings
buy tickets Directed by Deann Borshay LiemDocumentary | 94 Minutes | USA | English | New England PremiereIn-person Q&A with Director Deann Borshay Liem after the screening. In CROSSINGS, a group of international women peacemakers sets out on a risky journey across the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea, calling for an end to […]
Dealing with Dad
Click here to buy ticketsSell tickets online with Ticket Tailor If the event is not sold out, tickets at the door are $20. So get your online tickets early! Directed by Tom HuangNarrative | 106 Minutes | EnglishIn-person Q&A with Director Tom Huang after the screening. Opening Night Sponsor: MARGARET CHANG is rocked from her […]
A Tale of Three Chinatowns
Ultraman, e most well-known examples of the kaiju genre, along with Toho‘s[a] Godzilla series and Daiei Film‘s Gamera series. However, the series also falls into the Kyodai Hero subgenre of tokusatsu, a subgenre it also helped popularise. In Japan, The Ultraman brand generated US$7.4 billion in merchandising revenue from 1966 to 1987,[2][3] equivalent to more […]