Join NYSEAN, SUNY/CUNY SEAC, and GETSEA for a screening of Hot Stuff: Exposure of Indonesia's Geothermal Dreams, an AIFIS award-winning documentary and part of a trio of Indonesian films that delve into energy policies in Indonesia, corporate ties to those policies, and their detrimental effects on local environments and populations. Director Dandhy Laksono and Producer Cypri Dale will join us live from the University of Michigan’s Center for Southeast Asia Studies as over 20 universities from across North America connect to watch Hot Stuff simultaneously, followed by a discussion about the film, energy policy in Indonesia, and the new Prabowo Subianto administration’s response to local grassroots movements in the country.

Join NYSEAN, Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU, and Espacio de Culturas at NYU for an evening of festival-favorite film shorts and conversation with New York-based Filipino and Filipino American filmmakers. The program features When the House Lights Come On by Apa Agbayani, A Blaan Lullaby by Ida Del Mundo, Manila is Full of Men Named Boy by Andrew Stephen Lee, Out of Body by Enrico Po, and more.

Join Thirdworld Newsreel and the Documentary Forum at City College of New York for an Indie-Lens Pop-Up screening and discussion of the documentary film Home Court, directed by Erica Tanamachi, ahead of its airdate (March 24, 2025) on PBS. The director will be joined by the producers of the film, Jenn Lee Smith and Brandon Soun. Home Court is the coming-of-age story of Ashley Chea, a Cambodian American basketball prodigy in Southern California whose life intensifies as recruitment heats up. As she overcomes injury as well as racial and class differences between her home and private school worlds and against rival schools, Ashley strives to become her own person and leave a legacy behind.

Join NYSEAN and Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU for an evening of films by acclaimed indie writer and director Glenn Barit. They will screen Cleaners (2019) and the short films Maybe Aliens (2017), Who Rents There Now? (2018), and Before Life Happens (2023).

Join Asia Society for a film screening of Moral (1982) by Marilou Diaz-Abaya, which features four Filipinas navigating friendship and adulthood against a backdrop of martial rule.

Join Thai Lawyers for Human Rights for a film screening of The Last Breath of Sam Yan (2023), a documentary that captures the spirit and resilience of student activists and community members who stand firm in protecting their cultural heritage. The film screening is followed by a Q&A with producers Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal and Settanant Thanakitkoses.

Join the Columbia Society of International Law and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University for a film screening of Daze of Justice: A Documentary Film by Michael Siv in collaboration with Dr. Leakhena Nou, medical sociologist and Professor of Sociology at California State University-Long Beach. This documentary follows Dr. Nou’s research on Cambodian American women and their journeys to resurrect the memory of their loved ones before the UN Special Tribunal prosecuting the Khmer Rouge.

Join Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU and NYSEAN for a film screening of Diablo (2012; 1h 54m), written and directed by Mes de Guzman.

Join Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU and NYSEAN for a film screening of Genus, Pan (2020; 2h 30m), written and directed by Lav Diaz.

Join Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU for a film screening of About US But Not US, where a literature professor meets up with his student months after the death of his longtime partner.

The Roosevelt House Human Rights Program will screen the film Ghost Mountain, which tells the story of a Cambodian refugee who made his way to Connecticut in 1980 after surviving the Killing Fields. This event is sponsored by Network 20/20, the Hunter College Asian American Studies Program and the History Department.

Hosted at the NYU King Juan Carlos Center, the Visions/Panawin Film Series aims to introduce New York University and the Filipino American community in NYC to the rich canon of Philippine cinema. The third and final film featured will be Batang West Side, directed by Lav Diaz.

Hosted by the NYU Center for Media, Culture, and History, author Deirdre Boyle and scholar/filmmaker Jill Godmilow will discuss the book, Ferryman of Memories: The Films of Rithy Panh, which follows the story of award-winning filmmaker Rithy Panh, a survivor of the Cambodian genocide who moved to France.

Laotian film maker Mattie Do, journalist Manyphone Vongphachanh, and Noel Clehane, Global Head of Regulatory & Public Policy at BDO, will discuss current economic struggles and opportunities in Laos. This event is sponsored by Asia Society Switzerland, BDO, a global for-profit advisory firm, and the University of Zurich.

Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU will screen Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros, an independent film that follows young boy Maximo Oliveros as he discovers his sexuality in the Manilla slums. This event is co-sponsored by Cinemalaya, NYU KJCC, and NYSEAN.

Join Sulo: The Philippines Studies Initiative at New York University for a screening of In the Navel of the Sea followed by a talk with Fiel Zabat, the award-winning production designer of major works by Marilou Correa Diaz-Abaya. This event is sponsored by GMA Pictures, the NYU King Juan Carlos Center, and NYSEAN.

After the screening of The Greatest Beer Run Ever, join director Peter Farrelly, producer Andrew Muscato, costume designer Bao Tranchi, co-author Chickie Donohue, and Columbia's, Lien-Hang Nguyen, for a panel discussion. This event is co-sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, WEAI, Teachers College, MilVets, and the Center for Veteran Transition and Integration at Columbia University.

Join Mekong NYC, the Ford Foundation, the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, and NYSEAN for a double-feature screening of Cambodia's pre-war films Mother’s Heart by Yvon Hem and Thavary Meas Bong by Uong Citta. This will be followed by the NYC book launch of Faded Reels: The Art of Four Cambodian Filmmakers 1960-1975 and a Q&A with author Dr. LinDa Saphan and Cambodian film collector Nate Hun. The discussion will be moderated by Sreyneath Poole.

Join Dr Thomas Baudinette, Macquarie University, as he shines the spotlight on the transnational pop culture phenomenon of “Boys Love” (BL) soap operas, and how it has transformed contemporary Thai consumer culture. This event is sponsored by the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, and NYSEAN.

Hosted by Cornell University, Kale Bantigue Fajardo, Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota, will lecture on the different kinds of boats, waters, and queer river-and-seafaring Filipino/a/x figures in contemporary Philippine Cinema. In doing so, Fajardo will reveal the postcolonial and decolonial implications of select films in relation to indigeneity, tourism, neoliberal economics, migration, and the heteropatriarchy.

Join SEACoast for an online screening of Apichatpong Weerasethakul's 2015 film, Cemetery of Splendor, followed by a discussion with Natalie Ng, a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at University of California, Santa Cruz.

Join the Asia Society to celebrate two Filipino artists and showcase short animated films, Josephine (2016) by Avid Liongoren and Blush (2021) by Joe Mateo.

Organized by the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa’s Center for Southeast Asian Studies, this documentary film explores the stories of 21st-century Filipino émigrés who once were state scholars but subsequently followed other opportunities abroad. The movie will be screened virtually via Vimeo (Feb 4-9), and will be followed by a panel discussion with the filmmaker.

Hosted by the NYU King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, join Filipino director Kidlat Tahimi, a key figure of the so-called ‘slow cinema’ movement and an undisputed pioneer of Filipino independent film, for a conversation with Sara Nadal-Melsió, an NYC-based Catalan writer, curator, and teacher.