Drama
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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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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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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
UltraStar Mission Valley
Thursday, November 10, 2016 6:40 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
UltraStar Mission Valley
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
UltraStar Mission Valley
Saturday, November 5, 2016 6:40 pmTHE WORLD OF US
UltraStar Mission Valley
Sunday, November 6, 2016 3:35 pm
