Join the New York Asian Film Foundation for the international premiere of Flower Girl (2025) as part of the New York Asian Film Festival. The film screening will be followed by a Q&A with Director Fatrick Tabada and actress Sue Ramirez.

Join the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF) for a special program of conversation, community, and a film screening of Skin of Youth (2025). Panelists include Tony Bui, Kiều Chinh, Catherine T. Nguyễn, Việt Hương, Công Dương, and Nguyen Lam Thao Tam.

Join Deconstructing Indonesia for a film screening of Mother Dao, the Turtlelike, a compilation of clips from a Dutch cameraman between 1912 and 1932 in their former colony of Indonesia.

Join the New York Asian Film Foundation and Film at Lincoln Center for the North American premiere of The Hearing (2024) as part of the New York Asian Film Festival. The film screening will be followed by a Q&A with Director Lawrence Fajardo.

Join Film at Lincoln Center for the North American premiere of Lilim (2025) as part of the New York Asian Film Festival. The film screening is followed by a talkback with Director Mikhail Red and lead actress Heaven Peralejo.

Join the Asia Society for a film screening of R.D. Pestonji’s surreal, freewheeling comedy Country Hotel (1957). The screening will be followed by a discussion with Palita Chungsaengchan, film scholar and Assistant Professor of Southeast Asian cinema and media cultures in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at University of Minnesota.

Join the the Asia Society and Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute for a screening of the critically acclaimed film Three Seasons (1999), followed by a discussion with the film’s director, Tony Bui, and Director of Columbia University's Weatherhead East Asian Institute and History Professor, Dr. Lien-Hang Nguyen.

Join Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the School of the Arts at Columbia University for a panel on war, memory, and the enduring power of cinema in bearing witness and raising conscience surrounding the Vietnam War. Featured speakers include Phillip Noyce, director of The Quiet American (2002), and Tony Bui, filmmaker and Artist in Residence at WEAI. Ted Osius, former United States Ambassador to Vietnam, will moderate the discussion.

Join Asia in Action’s The Conversation Series at Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute for a panel commemorating the end of the Vietnam War and highlighting how the arts have played a powerful role in promoting peace and building bridges for new generations. Featured speakers include poet and author Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, and photographer Peter Steinhauer. Tony Bui, Artist in Residence at WEAI, will moderate the panel discussion.

Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute (WEAI) will host a panel marking the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War’s end and the 30th anniversary of U.S.-Vietnam reconciliation. Organized by Global Vietnam Studies with Columbia Global, the Journalism School, and the School of the Arts, the event features documentary filmmakers Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein (The Vietnam War), former Vietnamese Lt. Gen. Lo Khac Tam, Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, WEAI Director and History Professor at Columbia, and Thomas Vallely, Senior Advisor for Global Vietnam Studies at WEAI, co-founder of Fulbright University Vietnam, and former U.S. Marine (Silver Star recipient).

Join Global Vietnam Studies at Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University for a conference commemorating the 30th anniversary of US-Vietnam Reconciliation. This commemoration seeks to explore the contested history of the war and of the peace, and draw lessons for the future of US-Vietnam relations and for conflict resolution around the world. This event features Severine Autesserre, Chinh Chu, Quoc Viet Le, Annabel Lee, Chris Miller, Lien-Hang Nguyen, Nguyen Quoc Dung, Dang Dinh Quy, Dang Hoang Giang, Wafaa El-Sadr, and Thomas Vallely.

Join the Weatherhead East Asian Institute (WEAI) at Columbia University and the Columbia Journalism School for a keynote and ao dai exhibition featuring the Vietnamese-American actress, Kiều Chinh. Tony Bui, Artist in Residence at WEAI, will moderate the discussion.

Join the Yale Vietnamese Student Association and the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University for an evening of remembrance, discussion, and collective reflection. The event includes a film screening of Oh, Saigon and a panel discussion featuring esteemed professors and personal testimonies.

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.