Upon the loss of her beloved dog, Emma Gwon faces an empty nest and renewed feelings for her estranged ex-husband, as she navigates the joy and sorrow of starting anew.
After ALL THAT WE LOVE film screening, badgeholders can join us at DAM-A for AYCE KBBQ, spring rolls, & app bar to keep the party going!
Our Texas Shorts block celebrates the vibrant spirit of the Lone Star State, inviting audiences into a charming foray of creativity, transformation, and self-discovery.
Join us in the AFS Cinema Lobby for light bites & refreshments to be provided after the Texas Shorts Film Screening. Open to all attendees of the Texas Shorts program.
Paying for It is a live-action adaptation of acclaimed alternative-cartoonist Chester Brown’s best-selling graphic novel. In the late 90s, Chester and Sonny are a long-term, committed, romantic couple. When Sonny wants to redefine their relationship, Chester, an introverted cartoonist, starts sleeping with sex workers and discovers a new kind of intimacy in the process. Paying for It is about love, sex and non-monogamy for adults. It deals with the complicated subject of the exchange for sex-work versus the complications of romantic love.
Night and Fog in Kurdistan tells the powerful story of seven Yezidi teenagers who survived the 2014 ISIS genocide. Directed by a Kurdish woman filmmaker with firsthand experience of war and displacement, the film follows their five-year migration journey from refugee camps in Turkey to relocation in Europe.
The 92-year-old previous nightclub dancer Coby Yee decides to get back on stage again after joining the senior dance troupe Grant Avenue Follies. Together they go on a tour for the last time, bridging once isolated Chinese communities in the US, Cuba and China.
Celebrate with us for our Centerpiece Party at St. John Studios! Late-night bites, drinks, and ice-cold treats will be served along with cool vibes.
This year brings another set of diverse narrative short films that has many of their characters restless and in search of something.
Sri Lanka ranks among the highest in the number of enforced disappearances in the world and most of the disappeared are Tamils. Fusing allegorical magic realism and investigative documentary and made collaboratively with impacted locals clandestinely in a region still occupied by the military, this film is a lyrical examination of these missing persons through 26 years of civil war in Sri Lanka.
Generations of artists call Robert A. Nakamura “The Godfather of Asian American film,” but his son, Tad, calls him Dad. As the filmmaking son of a filmmaking legend, Tad uses the lessons his dad taught him to decipher the legacy of an aging man who was a child survivor of the WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans, a successful photographer who gave it up to tell his own story, an activist at the dawn of a social movement—and a father whose struggles have won his son freedoms that eluded Japanese Americans of his generation.
Standing Above the Clouds highlights the movement to protect Mauna Kea through the intergenerational stories of women in three Native Hawaiian families as they stand for the sacred mountain.
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When a massive Chinese industrial park lands in rural Ethiopia, a dusty farming town finds itself at the new frontier of globalization. The sprawling factory complex’s formidable Chinese director Motto now needs every bit of mettle and charm she can muster to push through a high-stakes expansion that promises 30,000 new jobs. Ethiopian farmer Workinesh and factory worker Beti have staked their futures on the prosperity the park promises. But as initial hope meets painful realities, they find themselves, like their country, at a pivotal crossroads.
In this compelling block of short documentaries, bold filmmakers pursue truth to uncover the layered depths of our humanity.
Anand, a 30-something city dweller compelled to spend a 10-day mourning period for his father in the rugged countryside of western India, tenderly bonds with a local farmer who is struggling to stay unmarried. As the mourning ends, forcing his return, Anand must decide the fate of his relationship born under duress.
A lone child finds herself on the verge of being adopted by the perfect family she has been seeking.
During the week of try-outs for the national team, a young gymnast named Sunshine discovers she is pregnant. On her way to meet a dealer in illegal abortion pills, she encounters a mysterious girl who questions her decision.
