All Films & Events
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SPA NIGHT
Andrew Ahn / Asian American Panorama / USA / 2016 / Drama, LGBT / 93 mins
To support his working-class parents, a young Korean American takes a job at a Koreatown spa where family cultural rituals cross paths with an underground gay scene. Andrew Ahn’s award-winning first feature dramatizes the quietly escalating exhilaration of self-discovery, while honestly and meticulously heeding the careful obligations of family.SPA NIGHT
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Sunday, November 6, 2016 3:25 pm Buy Tickets
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TA’ANG
Wang Bing / Masters / China, France / 2016 / Documentary / 147 mins
Civil war in Myanmar has forced the Ta'ang people to journey across the border into China's Yunnan Province. The singular, epic documentarian Wang Bing follows the refugees, mostly women and children, as they trek the mountainous forest terrain by day and gather by the campfire at night.TA’ANG
Digital Gym Cinema
Monday, November 7, 2016 7:50 pm
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TASTE OF CHERRY
Abbas Kiarostami / Special Presentations / Iran / 1997 / Drama, Experimental / 99 mins
The late poet, photographer, and filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami achieved immortality with TASTE OF CHERRY, one of the most humane expressions of empathy ever captured on film, from the plight of a cab driver seeking a stranger to assist in his suicide, to the film’s transcendent finale. Shown in 35mm.TASTE OF CHERRY
Museum of Photographic Arts
Wednesday, November 9, 2016 7:00 pm
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TEN YEARS
Ng Ka-leung, Jevons Au, Chow Kwun-Wai, Fei-Pang Wong, Kwok Zune / Asia Pop! / Hong Kong / 2015 / Drama / 104 mins
The most provocative Hong Kong film of its generation is a collection of dystopic stories that imagine the city in the year 2025: duplicitous party officials, historians of lost worlds, workers who can’t speak Mandarin, protestors drawn to self-immolation, children alienated from the idea of the local.TEN YEARS
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Monday, November 7, 2016 5:35 pmTEN YEARS
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Wednesday, November 9, 2016 5:30 pm
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THREE
Johnnie To / Masters / Hong Kong / 2016 / Thriller / 88 mins
The cramped confines of a Hong Kong hospital play host to war of attrition between tenacious cops and philosophical robbers. Caught in the middle is a stressed out M.D. whose actions prove that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Let the bullet ballet commence.THREE
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Monday, November 7, 2016 6:20 pmTHREE
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Tuesday, November 8, 2016 6:35 pm
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THE TIGER HUNTER
Lena Khan / Special Presentations / USA / 2016 / Comedy, Romance / 94 mins
It’s 1979 and Sami arrives in the U.S. with a leisure suit, a new job, and a suitcase full of expectations. He loses two of those three within hours of touching down, so it’ll take grit, ingenuity, and some hilarious friends to get back on his feet and, if the stars align, impress his sweetheart back in India.Preceded by: MS. BULA BANERJEE
Opening Night: THE TIGER HUNTER
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sherwood Auditorium
Thursday, November 3, 2016 7:00 pm
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TRAIN TO BUSAN
Yeon Sang-ho / Asia Pop! / South Korea / 2016 / Thriller / 118 mins
The zombies are here. In this train car. That you’re on. With your young daughter. On her birthday. If there’s a way out of this apocalyptic bullet train, tell that to Seok-woo and the still-human passengers hurling toward their fates. Otherwise, director Yeon Sang-ho has some crazy ideas.TRAIN TO BUSAN
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Wednesday, November 9, 2016 8:25 pmTRAIN TO BUSAN
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Thursday, November 10, 2016 8:35 pm
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TRIVISA
Frank Hui, Jevons Au, Vicky Wong Wai-Kit / Asia Pop! / Hong Kong / 2016 / Thriller / 97 mins
Three legends of the underworld are emboldened by the chance to commit one last masterpiece of crime before Hong Kong is handed over to China 1997. Produced by Johnnie To and directed by three up-and-comers, TRIVISA explores the end of an era through the despairing loneliness of gunfire in the night.TRIVISA
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Saturday, November 5, 2016 9:05 pm
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TUNNEL
Kim Seong-hun / Asia Pop! / South Korea / 2016 / Thriller / 127 mins
On his way home from work, Jung-soo drives into a mountain tunnel that collapses on him. Through his cell phone (battery life: 81%), he discovers that it might be a few days before he’s rescued. What he’s not told about are the behind-the-scenes battles that actually determine his fate.TUNNEL
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Monday, November 7, 2016 8:05 pmTUNNEL
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Tuesday, November 8, 2016 8:25 pm
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THE UNBIDDEN
Quentin Lee / Asian American Panorama / USA / 2016 / Comedy, Horror, Thriller / 84 mins
A mystery novelist (Tamlyn Tomita) finds herself in a supernatural yarn she can’t untangle, so she hosts three friends for a dinner that becomes a séance. Soon, a mysterious visitor arrives with a gun and a demand for answers that will require them to unbury old secrets.THE UNBIDDEN
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Friday, November 4, 2016 9:00 pm
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WEEDS ON FIRE
Chan Chi-fat / Asia Pop! / Hong Kong / 2016 / Drama, Sports / 105 mins
The education system has given up on teenagers Lung and Wai, but an aspiring baseball coach takes them in to form Hong Kong’s first little league team. Based on actual events in 1984, WEEDS ON FIRE pitches curveballs around the colony’s peculiar politics and wins hearts as only a city losing its identity can: by stealing home.WEEDS ON FIRE
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Monday, November 7, 2016 7:55 pmWEEDS ON FIRE
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Thursday, November 10, 2016 6:40 pm
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WET WOMAN IN THE WIND
Akihiko Shiota / Discoveries / Japan / 2016 / Comedy, Pink Film / 78 mins
Kosuke thinks he can refuse the come-ons of Shiori, the mysterious woman who has penetrated his private wooded lair. Unaccustomed to hearing no, Shiori takes her revenge, a game of come-hither with escalating intensity and a climax that can only come from this ribald mix of comedy and erotica.WET WOMAN IN THE WIND
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Friday, November 4, 2016 9:40 pmWET WOMAN IN THE WIND
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Wednesday, November 9, 2016 8:55 pm
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WHITE LIES, BLACK LIES
Lou Yi-an / Asia Pop! / Taiwan / 2015 / Mystery, Noir / 94 mins
A determined journalist investigates the death of a woman found bleeding in a wig store, whose owner has conveniently disappeared with an old flame. But the search for truth leads only to lies, as well as to a decade-old unsolved murder.WHITE LIES, BLACK LIES
UCSD Calit2 Atkinson Hall Auditorium
Saturday, November 5, 2016 5:15 pm
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THE WOMAN WHO LEFT
Lav Diaz / Masters / Philippines / 2016 / Drama / 228 mins
A woman is released from prison after serving 30 years for a crime she did not commit. Now released, she wanders through a small town with a detachment that could imply either spiritual peace or the patient calculations of vengeance. Lav Diaz’s Venice-winner is a brutally quiet epic of redemption.THE WOMAN WHO LEFT
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Wednesday, November 9, 2016 2:00 pmTHE WOMAN WHO LEFT
Digital Gym Cinema
Friday, November 11, 2016 12:30 pm
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THE WORLD OF US
Yoon Ga-eun / Discoveries / South Korea / 2016 / Drama / 95 mins
The littlest hearts break the hardest. In this poignant, naturalistic drama, ten-year-old Sun has always been the outcast at school, but the arrival of a new classmate presents an opportunity for friendship. Still, class differences threaten to further alienate Sun from the hope of happiness.THE WORLD OF US
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Saturday, November 5, 2016 6:40 pmTHE WORLD OF US
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Sunday, November 6, 2016 3:35 pm
