Kau Ka Hōkū Award Nominee, Southeast Asian Showcase
ASOG is a screwball tragicomedy starring a cast of real life Super Typhoon survivors. Jaya is a non-binary teacher and comedian who survived Super Typhoon Haiyan. Picking up the pieces…
Documentaries, Indigenous Lens, Kau Ka Hōkū Award Nominee
Rebecca Landsberry-Baker and Joe Peeler's BAD PRESS, which world premiered at Sundance, chronicles a political battle over media freedom that resonates well beyond the Native American communities depicted. When the…
Spotlight on Korea
KILLING ROMANCE is a camera-drunk comic fantasia about a former superstar celebrity, Hwang Yeo-Rae (Lee Hanee), trapped in a toxic marriage with egomaniacal, obscenely wealthy tycoon Jonathan Na (Lee Sun-kyun),…
Spotlight on Japan
Ever get a case of the Mondays, where going to work feels like you’re on repeat? Waking up on Monday morning after pulling an all-nighter at the creative agency where…
Film For Thought, Kau Ka Hōkū Award Nominee
It’s the mid-90’s in Northern California and 13-year-old Pakistani American Ilyas (Atharva Verma) is facing a major crisis — his parents yanked him out of his comfortable Islamic private school…
Opening Night Film
Directed by Academy Award® Winner Taika Waititi (Jojo Rabbit, Thor: Ragnarok) and based on a true story, NEXT GOAL WINS follows the American Samoa soccer team, infamously known for their…
Spotlight on Japan
Hideki is a Japanese Salaryman who goes on an unwitting journey of self-discovery when he takes a business trip from Tokyo to a Montana cattle ranch, in the hopes of…