Organizer: Asian CineVision (ACV)

Type/Location: Hybrid / New York, NY

Description:

Join Asian CineVision for the screenings of Vox Humana, Funeral of the Earth, Grandma Nai Who Played Favorites, Vic and His Nanay, We Used to Take the Long Way Home, and Across the Waters as part of the Asian American International Film Festival. These films entail liminal places, bodies in motion, borders of life and death. They explore the intermediate, indeterminate spaces between one another, the world around us, and even the worlds beyond. The screenings will be followed by a filmmaker Q&A.

Included Short Films:

Vox Humana
Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan | The Philippines, USA | 22 mins

In the aftermath of an earthquake, the police find a man in the woods. A zoologist, a sound recorder, and a news team grapple with the truth that he may be the cause of all the natural disasters that devastated this small mountain town.

Funeral of the Earth
Jaewon Park | UK, USA | 4 mins

Dusts are pilgrims that travel through Earth's time and arrive at its death. As Earth passes away, Dusts gather and perform the funerary ritual, the ceremony to close the past era and celebrate the birth of the new era.

Vic and His Nanay
Jill Janairo | USA | 10 mins

A late-blooming trans woman grapples with a life-altering, assigned-male-at-birth trans-specific dilemma, and with the help of her besties, navigates the complexities of this debacle as she defines her womanhood on her own terms.

Grandma Nai Who Played Favorites (Chao Somnop Chet)
Chheangkea | Cambodia, France, USA | 19 mins

During her chaotic family’s Qingming visit, dead Grandma Nai sneaks away from her peaceful afterlife after overhearing that her queer grandson is about to get engaged to a woman.

We Used to Take the Long Way Home
An Nguyen | USA, Vietnam | 14 mins

Returning to Vietnam for the first time since middle school, a teenage girl reunites with old friends for a nostalgic summer road trip to “Lake Perfect.”

Across the Waters
Vivi Li | France, China | 15 mins

Sandstorm blows, waters scarce. In a remote mining town without any radio signals, a quirky teenage girl gets curious about a passing truck driver.

Registration:

To watch the film shorts in-person, please purchase tickets here.

To watch the film shorts on-demand, please purchase tickets here.