ASIAN|AMERICAN SHORTS
This collection represents the broad spectrum of the Asian American experience, from first generations in America, to Asian Americans returning to Asia with new perspectives in their relation to “home.”
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ISLAND IN BETWEEN
The rural Taiwanese outer islands of Kinmen sit merely 2 miles off the coast of China. Kinmen has been a popul...
21 min | S. Leo Chiang | WORLD PREMIERE | Chinese | English
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BALIKBAYAN
A Filipina immigrant grapples with the physical distance from the family she left behind and the cultural disc...
18 min | Rebecca Rajadnya | | HAWAI''I PREMIERE | English, Tagalog | English, Closed Captions
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CHAMPION
It''s 1997, a month after 9-year-old Jimin moved from Korea to start school in California. She arrived in Amer...
13 min | Kim J.Y. Han | | HAWAI''I PREMIERE | English, Korean | English
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THE UNREACHABLE STAR
Inspired by the grand tales of Don Quixote, a brother and sister set off in search of adventure to escape thei...
15 min | Sharon S. Park | | NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE | English, Japanese | English
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WHITE BUTTERFLY
A mixed-race Vietnamese American returns to Vietnam following her estranged mother’s death where she uncover...
20 min | Catherine T. Nguyen | | WORLD PREMIERE | Vietnamese, English | English
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SAY SOMETHING
Fresh from Seoul, a teen girl struggles to find connection in her new home until she sees the church band’s ...
13 min | Jiin Oh | | HAWAI''I PREMIERE | English, Korean | English
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