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IT AIN’T NECESSARILY SO
Masa Fox / Asian American Panorama / Japan, USA / 2015 / Documentary, Music / 34 mins
A budding Japanese jazz singer and her biracial vocal instructor struggle to agree on the proper way to sing Gershwin’s “I Loves You Porgy.” Directed by and starring Masa Fox, this crafty medium-length film mines humor out of the awkwardness of performing culture across borders.Preceded by: BORN WITH IT
IT AIN’T NECESSARILY SO
UltraStar Mission Valley
Wednesday, November 9, 2016 4:00 pm Buy Tickets
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KAPOOR & SONS
Shakun Batra / Asia Pop! / India / 2016 / Comedy, Drama / 132 mins
Estranged brothers set jealousy and resentment aside when they move back home after grandpa’s heart attack. But it just wouldn’t be the Kapoor family without secrets and lies. KAPOOR & SONS is a festive, doggedly emotional celebration of family working through misunderstanding and meeting each other where they least expect.KAPOOR & SONS
UltraStar Mission Valley
Saturday, November 5, 2016 7:55 pmKAPOOR & SONS
UltraStar Mission Valley
Monday, November 7, 2016 5:20 pm
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THE LAST PRINCESS
Hur Jin-ho / Asia Pop! / South Korea / 2016 / Drama, History, Romance / 127 mins
At age 13, Princess Deok-hye of Korea was sent to Japan where she was given a colonial education, but where she also befriended Korean independence fighters. Son Ye-jin shines in the role of a lifetime, portraying nationalism as an emotional wellspring in the face of turbulent historical change.THE LAST PRINCESS
UltraStar Mission Valley
Saturday, November 5, 2016 5:15 pmTHE LAST PRINCESS
UltraStar Mission Valley
Wednesday, November 9, 2016 5:45 pm
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LIFE AFTER LIFE
Zhang Hanyi / Discoveries / China / 2016 / Drama, Experimental / 80 mins
Nothing seems strange anymore in the desiccated Shaanxi hinterlands, not even the fact that a young boy has been possessed by the ghost of his mother who returns home to move a tree. The painterly LIFE AFTER LIFE watches with a bemused, distant eye, casting grim clouds over a haunted landscape.LIFE AFTER LIFE
Digital Gym Cinema
Monday, November 7, 2016 6:05 pm
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THE LOCKPICKER
Randall Okita / Asian American Panorama / Canada / 2016 / Drama / 94 mins
Numbed by the recent death of a friend, Hashi wanders through high school committing petty robberies while enduring the odious machismo of his peers. Keigian Tang delivers a star-making performance in the title role, his eyes longing for escape as the world’s cacophony weighs upon his skull.THE LOCKPICKER
UltraStar Mission Valley
Saturday, November 5, 2016 3:30 pm
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MELE MURALS
Tadashi Nakamura / Asian American Panorama / USA / 2016 / Documentary / 64 mins
Graffiti writers Estria Miyashiro and John “Prime” Hina join forces in this colorful documentary about the Hawaiian youth art program Mele Murals, through which they teach kids to explore their creative side, and end up with lessons about identity, art, and selfhood of their own.MELE MURALS
La Paloma Theatre
Saturday, November 12, 2016 3:25 pm
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THE MERMAID
Stephen Chow / Masters / China, Hong Kong / 2016 / Comedy, Fantasy, Romance / 94 mins
When big business develops on a seaside wildlife refuge, the merpeople will revolt. Specifically, they will send their most beautiful mermaid to seduce, then assassinate, the playboy tycoon behind it all. Director Stephen Chow (Shaolin Soccer) does it again, skewering chicken, tentacles, and billionaires with harpoon-in-gut hilarity.THE MERMAID
UltraStar Mission Valley
Friday, November 4, 2016 6:15 pmTHE MERMAID
UltraStar Mission Valley
Saturday, November 5, 2016 12:35 pm
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MIXED MATCH
Jeff Chiba Stearns / Asian American Panorama / Canada / 2016 / Documentary / 96 mins
It’s overwhelmingly difficult for mixed-race patients to find bone marrow matches, but MIXED MATCH finds activists and blood cancer patients who refuse to let the odds defeat them. Jeff Chiba Stearns' documentary is inspiring as a call to action, and illuminating as a conversation about race in medicine.MIXED MATCH
UltraStar Mission Valley
Sunday, November 6, 2016 1:10 pm
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THE MOHICAN COMES HOME
Shuichi Okita / Asia Pop! / Japan / 2016 / Comedy, Drama / 125 mins
Sensing little future in his death metal band, Eikichi reluctantly chooses the next best things: his fiancée, the child they’re about to have, and the family he hasn’t seen in seven years. With droopy goofiness and heartfelt observations on everyday life, this tragicomedy finds smiles in the awkward exchanges of family.THE MOHICAN COMES HOME
UltraStar Mission Valley
Tuesday, November 8, 2016 7:55 pmTHE MOHICAN COMES HOME
UltraStar Mission Valley
Wednesday, November 9, 2016 6:20 pm
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OLD STONE
Johnny Ma / Discoveries / Canada, China / 2016 / Drama, Noir / 80 mins
When cab driver Lao Shi accidentally injures a motorcyclist on the road, he decides to obey Chinese law and pay for the victim's hospital bills. But his good intentions only invite a wave of stress, deceit, and madness. Compassion is a costly emotion in Johnny Ma's unflinching noir debut.OLD STONE
UltraStar Mission Valley
Sunday, November 6, 2016 3:45 pm
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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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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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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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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
UltraStar Mission Valley
Monday, November 7, 2016 5:35 pmTEN YEARS
UltraStar Mission Valley
Wednesday, November 9, 2016 5:30 pm
