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FANNY PACK
Uttera Singh / USA / 2016 / 10 mins
A young woman is ready for the world, but not if her fanny pack-toting father has anything to say about it.Plays In:
SHORTS: ANIMAL INSTINCTS
UltraStar Mission Valley
Monday, November 7, 2016 4:00 pm Buy Tickets
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GAYSIANS
Vicky Du / USA / 2015 / 13 mins
Five queer and trans Asian Americans explore their provocative ties with family and culture
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GOLDEN GOLDEN
Erica Cho / USA / 2016 / 14 mins
Queer imaginations of the psychic kind in this charming bus ride with desire.
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GOOD CHEMISTRY
Kazu Takeda / USA / 2016 / 6 mins
Not even a love for chemistry can help this blind date gone bad.Plays In:
SHORTS: SECRET RICE POISON
UltraStar Mission Valley
Friday, November 4, 2016 4:00 pm Buy Tickets
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HAND FART
Stanley Wong, Travis Ashkenasy / USA / 2016 / 5 mins
A man’s survival is left in his own hands.Precedes: CHEE AND T
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HOTEL 22
Elizabeth Lo / USA / 2015 / 9 mins
The only 24-hour bus in Silicon Valley transforms into a shelter for the homeless at night.
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IF I WERE ANY FURTHER AWAY I’D BE CLOSER TO HOME
Rajee Samarasinghe / Sri Lanka, USA / 2016 / 15 mins
Memories of a family business, seen from child’s height, told through the dream-like distance of silence.Precedes: IN PURSUIT OF SILENCE
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IN PURSUIT OF SILENCE
Patrick Shen / Asian American Panorama / USA / 2015 / Documentary, Music / 81 mins
A stunning and expansive meditation on the sounds that envelop us and the certain solace that is the bath of silence. Documentarian Patrick Shen follows artists, wanderers, and scientists for whom silence is not a void, but the purest state of being.Preceded by: IF I WERE ANY FURTHER AWAY I’D BE CLOSER TO HOME
IN PURSUIT OF SILENCE
UltraStar Mission Valley
Wednesday, November 9, 2016 6:35 pm
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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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IT RUNS IN THE FAMILY
Joella Cabalu / Asian American Panorama / Canada, Philippines, USA / 2016 / Documentary, LGBT / 45 mins
After Jay came out to his sister Joella, they discovered that they had a number of gay relatives. So the siblings decided to pay their extended family a visit, and Joella decided to film it. IT RUNS IN THE FAMILY is a sweet, affectionate documentary about family love across continents and generations.IT RUNS IN THE FAMILY
UltraStar Mission Valley
Thursday, November 10, 2016 5:50 pm
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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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LAPS
R.J. Lozada / USA / 2015 / 16 mins
The 1000 mile club at the San Quentin State Prison uses running to reflect on the past and live for the present.Precedes: BREATHIN’: THE EDDY ZHENG STORY
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BREATHIN’: THE EDDY ZHENG STORY
UltraStar Mission Valley
Saturday, November 5, 2016 8:35 pm
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LIKE HOPE
Oates Yinchao Wu / USA / 2015 / 13 mins
A foreign exchange student plunges into the moment, daring to hope for love with his friend.
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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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THE MAN FROM DEATH
Stephen Reedy / USA / 2016 / 14 mins
High octane free-for-all showdown that crashes video game graphics, special effects, bleeding eyes, cosmic backdrops, kung fu, western, and paranormal genres in one breathless psychedelic action sequence after another.Plays In:
SHORTS: SECRET RICE POISON
UltraStar Mission Valley
Friday, November 4, 2016 4:00 pm Buy Tickets
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MANGO STICKY RICE
Mallorie Ortega / USA / 2016 / 15 mins
In this musical comedy and furry good time, a besotted waiter watches the lady of his lyrics meet all her online dates in his restaurant.Plays In:
SHORTS: SECRET RICE POISON
UltraStar Mission Valley
Friday, November 4, 2016 4:00 pm Buy Tickets
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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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MIFUNE: THE LAST SAMURAI
Steven Okazaki / Special Presentations / Japan, USA / 2016 / Documentary / 80 mins
Actor, legend, and longtime Akira Kurosawa collaborator Toshiro Mifune is perhaps Japanese cinema’s best-known international star. Oscar-winning director Steven Okazaki pays tribute to Mifune’s craft and legacy in this documentary, as much a portrait of an artist as it is a history of one of Japan’s major contributions to world cinema: the samurai film.Closing Night: MIFUNE: THE LAST SAMURAI
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sherwood Auditorium
Friday, November 11, 2016 7:00 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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MOOM
Robert Kondo, Daisuke "Dice" Tsutsumi / Japan, USA / 2016 / 14 mins
Moom has trouble leaving a world littered with memories stuck in old objects.
