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OUR LOVE STORY
Lee Hyun-ju / Discoveries / South Korea / 2016 / Drama, LGBT, Romance / 99 mins
Art student Yoon-ju is inexperienced in relationships until she meets an alluring girl at a junkyard, and later at a convenience store, and then pivotally, in her apartment. OUR LOVE STORY captures beautifully that bursting feeling of never wanting to be apart, as well as Yoon-ju’s bittersweet discovery of what can come next.OUR LOVE STORY
UltraStar Mission Valley
Friday, November 4, 2016 8:15 pm
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OVER THE FENCE
Nobuhiro Yamashita / Masters / Japan / 2016 / Drama, Romance / 112 mins
After his divorce, Shiraiwa (Joe Odagiri) limps back to his hometown, where he signs up for carpentry school, plays softball to pass the time, and ends up meeting a hostess (Yu Aoi) with as deep a thirst for connection, but about as much baggage, and as he does.OVER THE FENCE
UltraStar Mission Valley
Sunday, November 6, 2016 7:30 pmOVER THE FENCE
UltraStar Mission Valley
Wednesday, November 9, 2016 4:10 pm
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PAMILYA ORDINARYO
Eduardo Roy, Jr. / Discoveries / Philippines / 2016 / Drama / 107 mins
New baby in tow, teenage parents Jane and Aries slash the streets, swiping cell phones and valuables from passerby to feed their love and their addictions. But when their most precious possession is stolen, they're plunged even deeper into the reality of the city.PAMILYA ORDINARYO
UltraStar Mission Valley
Friday, November 4, 2016 7:00 pmPAMILYA ORDINARYO
UltraStar Mission Valley
Monday, November 7, 2016 8:55 pm
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RANDOM ACTS OF LEGACY
Ali Kazimi / Asian American Panorama / Canada / 2016 / Documentary, History / 77 mins
By chance, director Ali Kazimi stumbled upon hours of home movies from 1936-1951 shot by Silas Fung, a commercial artist obsessed with the Chicago World’s Fair and the ceaseless documentation of his own family. The resulting documentary is a loving and invaluable portrait of middle-class Chinese America in the Midwest during the Depression era.Preceded by: SEMIOTICS OF SAB
RANDOM ACTS OF LEGACY
UltraStar Mission Valley
Saturday, November 5, 2016 1:40 pm
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RE:ORIENTATIONS
Richard Fung / Asian American Panorama / Canada / 2016 / Documentary, History, LGBT / 68 mins
In 1984, pioneering videomaker Richard Fung released the documentary Orientations, which explored the lives of lesbian and gay Asians in Canada. With RE:ORIENTATIONS, Fung revisits his subjects 30 years later, reflecting on aging and politics, and in the process telling a community’s history through those who lived it.RE:ORIENTATIONS
UltraStar Mission Valley
Tuesday, November 8, 2016 4:00 pm Buy Tickets
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RUN-OFF
Kim Jong-hyun / Asia Pop! / South Korea / 2016 / Comedy, Drama, Sports / 126 mins
A short-track racer, a figure skater, and a random collection of other athletes who definitely don’t play hockey insist on becoming South Korea’s national women’s hockey team. To convince the sports bureau of their worth, all they have to do is win bronze in a tournament that only has four teams.RUN-OFF
UltraStar Mission Valley
Sunday, November 6, 2016 7:55 pmRUN-OFF
La Paloma Theatre
Saturday, November 12, 2016 5:30 pm
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A SIMPLE GOODBYE
Degena Yun / Discoveries / China / 2015 / Drama / 100 mins
After dropping out of school in London, Shanshan reluctantly returns home to Beijing when her father, a former luminary of the Mongolian film industry, falls ill. A quietly astonishing portrait of family and youth seeking emotional connection, A SIMPLE GOODBYE unmasks its characters’ fears and capacities for feeling with a tender, striking beauty.A SIMPLE GOODBYE
UltraStar Mission Valley
Tuesday, November 8, 2016 5:45 pm
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SONITA
Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami / Asia Pop! / Germany, Iran, Switzerland / 2015 / Documentary / 90 mins
An Afghan teen living in Iran, Sonita’s the popular kid in school, but her parents want to cut her childhood short by marrying her off. But Sonita has plans of her own: becoming a rapper who speaks out against the oppression of women.SONITA
UltraStar Mission Valley
Monday, November 7, 2016 6:35 pm
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SORI: VOICE FROM THE HEART
Lee Ho-jae / Asia Pop! / South Korea / 2016 / Drama, Science Fiction / 117 mins
A father who has been searching for a missing daughter gets a renewed sense of hope when he discovers that the robot he found on the beach has a knack for locating people and data. Part E.T., part R2-D2, Sori is a wondrous sci-fi creation, bringing life to a most unusual and touching buddy comedy.SORI: VOICE FROM THE HEART
UltraStar Mission Valley
Saturday, November 5, 2016 1:00 pmSORI: VOICE FROM THE HEART
La Paloma Theatre
Saturday, November 12, 2016 1:00 pm
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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
UltraStar Mission Valley
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
UltraStar Mission Valley
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
UltraStar Mission Valley
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
UltraStar Mission Valley
Wednesday, November 9, 2016 8:25 pmTRAIN TO BUSAN
UltraStar Mission Valley
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
UltraStar Mission Valley
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
UltraStar Mission Valley
Monday, November 7, 2016 8:05 pmTUNNEL
UltraStar Mission Valley
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
UltraStar Mission Valley
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
UltraStar Mission Valley
Monday, November 7, 2016 7:55 pmWEEDS ON FIRE
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Thursday, November 10, 2016 6:40 pm
