* Not to be confused with the 1979 version. Shot in Sucuo Village, in Tainan, Taiwan, by Chang Chao-Tang and Christopher Doyle, “The Boat Burning Festival” (1979) captures a ritual that takes place every two years. In 2019 a new, alternative version titled “The Boat Burning Festival+”...
28-year-old English school teacher Robert Grieve, who unexpectedly wins a bag full of cash. Adrift in Cambodia and eager for a way out of his life of quiet desperation, he decides to take a journey deeper into the wilder aspects of the country, coming up against a scheming American, a crooked...
Documentary about the experience of the Chinese in San Francisco's Chinatown, told through the films they loved. This retrospective film retells the immigrant story, and revives the emotions felt by audiences in Chinatown's theaters. An uplifting reflection on how cinema shaped the community, and a...
This program features three digital short films by Asian filmmakers. Singapore veteran filmmaker Eric Khoo's NO DAY OFF (39 min) records the life of a maid who leaves her husband and baby for Singapore. Darezhan Omirbayev's ABOUT LOVE (38 min) is a bitter love story based on Anton Chekhov's novel,...
