Organizer: Asian CineVision (ACV)
Type/Location: Hybrid / New York, NY
Description:
Join Asian CineVision for the screenings of Back Then, Disease, Heart and Sol, Mother’s Recipe, Satkankul, Searching for Color, and A Story of Nanjing as part of the Asian American International Film Festival. These shorts are created by filmmakers under the age of 21.
Included Short Films:
Back Then
Junhyeok Kim | South Korea, USA | 14 mins
While en route to college in New York, a diminishing past memory is brought up, through one old, crumbled Leche Frita wrapper for Haneul.
Disease
Dongin Matthew Chun, Joshua Koh | USA | 18 mins
A college student gets a homeless man struggling with substance abuse to act in his movie. After the shoot, they return to their lives.
Heart and Sol
Donovan Decano | Germany, Philippines | 11 mins
A Filipino Karaoke bar owner in Berlin navigates the challenges of migration while recounting the extreme amounts of trauma he managed to overcome.
Mother’s Recipe
Izumo Kawabe | Japan, Singapore | 12 mins
When a Japanese boy who speaks little English is moved to Singapore by his mother and learns the stay is no longer temporary, he must earn enough money at a local food court to return home to Japan.
Satkankul
Aidana Muralieva | Kyrgyzstan | 15 mins
Before she wakes up, she promises to remember him. And he promised to do the same.
Searching for Color
Mikayla Ashe | USA, China | 6 mins
When a nail technician embraces her in ways her white mother never could, a young Asian adoptee begins to find her way home—to herself and her culture.
A Story of Nanjing
L-J ShenFilerman | China | 6 mins
In 1937 Nanjing, two sisters grapple with the death of their family while desperately scrambling to flee from the Japanese army.
Registration:
To watch the film shorts in-person or on-demand, please purchase tickets here.
NYSEAN and Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative are proud to be Community Partners of AAIFF. NYSEAN members can use the following discount code for 20% off all tickets: AAIFF49_NYUSULO