San Diego Asian Film Festival 2017
by funnyfaceking | created - 03 Nov 2017 | updated - 19 Nov 2017 | Public18th Annual | NOV 9-18, 2017 | sdaff.org
GRAND JURY AWARD WINNER: My Enemy, My Brother
BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE: Wexford Plaza
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: Out of State
GEORGE C. LIN EMERGING FILMMAKER AWARD: They
BEST NARRATIVE SHORT: Float
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT: Mother's Day
BEST ANIMATED SHORT: Crushed in Space
SPECIAL JURY MENTION: Santa Claus
DIGITAL PIONEER AWARD: Phil Yu of Angry Asian Man
AUDIENCE AWARD WINNER: Island Soldier
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1. Oh Lucy! (2017)
95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A lonely woman living in Tokyo decides to take an English class, where she discovers her alter-ego, Lucy.
Director: Atsuko Hirayanagi | Stars: Shinobu Terajima, Soseki Yamatoya, Miyu Yagyu, Kayano Masuyama
Votes: 3,358 | Gross: $0.38M
OPENING NIGHT FILM
2. Bad Genius (2017)
TV-MA | 130 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Lynn, a genius high school student who makes money by cheating tests, receives a new task that leads her to set foot on Sydney, Australia. In order to complete the millions-Baht task, Lynn and her classmates have to finish the international STIC(SAT) exam and deliver the answers back to her friends in Thailand before the exam takes place once again in her home country.
Director: Baz Poonpiriya | Stars: Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying, Eisaya Hosuwan, Teeradon Supapunpinyo, Chanon Santinatornkul
Votes: 23,317
3. Newton (2017)
Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Drama
A government clerk on election duty in the conflict ridden jungle of Central India tries his best to conduct free and fair voting despite the apathy of security forces and the looming fear of guerrilla attacks by communist rebels.
Director: Amit Masurkar | Stars: Rajkummar Rao, Pankaj Tripathi, Anjali Patil, Raghubir Yadav
Votes: 21,212
4. The First Lap (2017)
100 min | Drama
Between reproaches over past problems that were never resolved and the uncertainty of a future that is relentlessly coming closer, a young couple takes a trip that will leave them at the beginning of a new life.
Director: Dae-hwan Kim | Stars: Cho Hyun-chul, Kim Sae-byeok
Votes: 227
5. Love and Goodbye and Hawaii (2017)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama
A woman slowly coming to the realization that a relationship with her ex-boyfriend may well and truly be dead and she faces the decision of whether to resurrect it or move on.
Director: Shingo Matsumura | Stars: Aya Ayano, Risa Kameda, Aoi Kato, Kentarô Tamura
Votes: 174
6. The Girl from Yesterday (2017)
120 min | Comedy, Romance
A teenage boy causes problems on an everyday basis. He falls in love with a transfer student and becomes close to her, but he keeps thinking about his first love from early childhood that he couldn't confess his feelings to.
Director: Phan Gia Nhat Linh | Stars: Le Ha Anh, Hoang Yen Chibi, Ngo Kien Huy, Minh Khang
Votes: 336
"The Girl From Yesterday"
7. Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts (2017)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Thriller, Western
Marlina lives quietly in Sumba until one day a man named Markus and his gang try to rob her house and she kills him. Eventually, she is haunted by Markus, and her life turns in 180 degrees.
Director: Mouly Surya | Stars: Marsha Timothy, Egy Fedly, Tumpal Tampubolon, Yoga Pratama
Votes: 3,362 | Gross: $0.02M
8. The Day After (2017)
92 min | Drama, Romance
The married Bongwan leaves home in the dark morning and sets off to work. The memories of the woman who left weigh down on him. That day Bongwan's wife finds a love note, bursts into the office, and mistakes Areum for the woman who left.
Director: Hong Sang-soo | Stars: Yunhee Cho, Kwon Hae-hyo, Ki Joabang, Taeu Kang
Votes: 2,508 | Gross: $0.02M
9. I See You (2017)
TV-PG | 84 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A blind woman falls in love with a man who uses kindness and humor to make a connection with her.
Director: Sigrid Andrea Bernardo | Stars: Alessandra De Rossi, Empoy Marquez, Junpei Yamamoto, Carolle Urbano
Votes: 1,229
Kita Kita (I See You)
10. Out of State (2017)
82 min | Documentary
OUT OF STATE is the story of outcasts, of native Hawaiian prisoners shipped 3,000 miles across the ocean to a for-profit prison in the desert of Arizona. In this unlikely setting, these men... See full summary »
Director: Ciara Lacy
Votes: 66
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE WINNER
11. Mai mee Samui samrab ter (2017)
TV-MA | 108 min | Drama, Thriller
A soap opera actress finds herself increasingly pressured by her husband, a rich foreigner entirely devoted to a charismatic cult leader.
Director: Pen-Ek Ratanaruang | Stars: David Asavanond, Laila Boonyasak, Karen Gemma Dodgson, Vithaya Pansringarm
Votes: 551
12. Before We Vanish (2017)
R | 129 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Three aliens travel to Earth in preparation for a mass invasion, taking possession of human bodies.
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Stars: Masami Nagasawa, Ryûhei Matsuda, Hiroki Hasegawa, Masahiro Higashide
Votes: 2,824 | Gross: $0.05M
13. A Taxi Driver (2017)
Not Rated | 137 min | Action, Drama, History
A widowed father and taxi driver who drives a German reporter from Seoul to Gwangju to cover the 1980 uprising, soon finds himself regretting his decision after being caught in the violence around him.
Director: Hun Jang | Stars: Song Kang-ho, Thomas Kretschmann, Yoo Hae-jin, Ryu Jun-Yeol
Votes: 31,262 | Gross: $1.53M
14. Claire's Camera (2017)
Unrated | 69 min | Drama
The story of female friendship as Frenchwoman Claire helps the subject of her photograph, Min-Hee, discover why she was fired without apparent cause.
Director: Hong Sang-soo | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Kim Min-hee, Chang Mi-hee, Jung Jin-young
Votes: 2,613 | Gross: $0.08M
15. My Enemy, My Brother (2017)
90 min | Documentary, History, War
The true story of 2 enemies from the Iran-Iraq war; one saves the other's life on the battlefield, then they meet again by sheer coincidence 20 years later in Canada. Inspired by their ... See full summary »
Director: Ann Shin
Votes: 31
GRAND JURY AWARD WINNER
16. We the Workers (2017)
174 min | Documentary
Although labor activities could be very dangerous in China, some local consulting groups in the big city of Guangzhou continue to help migrant workers get their rights of work.
Director: Wenhai Huang
Votes: 40
17. Shopping for Fangs (1997)
R | 90 min | Drama
A married woman, who's been getting seductive phone calls from a lesbian, and a man, who believes he might be a werewolf, are about to find out who they deep down really are.
Directors: Quentin Lee, Justin Lin | Stars: Radmar Agana Jao, Jeanne Chinn, Clint Jung, Peggy Ahn
Votes: 252
18. The Day After (2017)
92 min | Drama, Romance
The married Bongwan leaves home in the dark morning and sets off to work. The memories of the woman who left weigh down on him. That day Bongwan's wife finds a love note, bursts into the office, and mistakes Areum for the woman who left.
Director: Hong Sang-soo | Stars: Yunhee Cho, Kwon Hae-hyo, Ki Joabang, Taeu Kang
Votes: 2,508 | Gross: $0.02M
19. A Beautiful Star (2017)
127 min | Drama, Family, Sci-Fi
It portrays a family on Earth who come to believe that they are actually from other planets all of a sudden. They try so hard to save the endangered planet Earth but things get crazy on the way.
Director: Daihachi Yoshida | Stars: Lily Franky, Kazuya Kamenashi, Ai Hashimoto, Tomoko Nakajima
Votes: 257
20. MDMA (2017)
Not Rated | 98 min | Crime, Drama
In 1984, the most powerful drug dealer on the west coast was a 19 year old coed. Based on actual events.
Director: Angie Wang | Stars: Annie Q. Riegel, Francesca Eastwood, Pierson Fode, Scott Keiji Takeda
Votes: 763
21. The Villainess (2017)
Not Rated | 124 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A female assassin leaves a trail of bodies behind her as she seeks revenge.
Director: Jung Byung-gil | Stars: Kim Ok-bin, Shin Ha-kyun, Sung Jun, Kim Seo-hyeong
Votes: 16,804 | Gross: $0.03M
22. Shinjuku Swan II (2017)
133 min | Action, Crime, Drama
On this second movie, Tatsuhiko Shiratori moves to Yokohama from Shinjuku, Tokyo. He comes into conflict with Masaki Taki who is the CEO of a scout company.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Yûsuke Arai, Kenta Arima, Kokoro Asami, Tadanobu Asano
Votes: 290
23. Caniba (2017)
Unrated | 92 min | Documentary
Caniba is a film that reflects on the discomforting significance of cannibalistic desire in human existence through the prism of one man, Issei Sagawa, and his mysterious relationship with his brother, Jun.
Directors: Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel | Stars: Renée Hartevelt, Issei Sagawa, Jun Sagawa
Votes: 613
24. Maineland (2017)
90 min | Documentary
Stella and Harry are affluent, cosmopolitan teenagers who are part of the enormous wave of "parachute students" from Mainland China enrolling in U.S. private schools. Shot over three years ... See full summary »
Director: Miao Wang
Votes: 104
25. Stand Up Man (2017)
85 min | Comedy
Forced to move back to hometown Windsor, wannabe comedian Moses Kim finds his dreams derailed in his family restaurant. Life gets more complicated when Moses' teenage cousin from Korea unexpectedly shows up.
Director: Aram Collier | Stars: Daniel Jun, Daniel Daegun Lee, Rosalina Lee, Antony Hall
Votes: 12
26. Who Is Arthur Chu? (2017)
89 min | Documentary
The award winning documentary Who Is Arthur Chu? follows the controversial 11-time Jeopardy! champion turned internet iconoclast, Arthur Chu, as he struggles to reform society and himself in a seminal year.
Directors: Scott J. Drucker, Yu Gu | Stars: Arthur Chu, Ang-Ling Chu, Alex Trebek, Eliza Blair
Votes: 158
27. Close-Knit (2017)
127 min | Drama
Tomo, an 11-year old girl, discovers her mother has abandoned her. Tomo's uncle and his transgender girlfriend, Rinko, take her in. Together they tackle the task of knitting 108 of Rinko's special hopes and dreams, one stitch at a time.
Director: Naoko Ogigami | Stars: Tôma Ikuta, Kenta Kiritani, Mugi Kadowaki, Eiko Koike
Votes: 1,954
28. Wexford Plaza (2016)
80 min | Comedy
A misunderstood sexual encounter unravels the life of a lonely female security guard and her deadbeat paramour.
Director: Joyce Wong | Stars: Reid Asselstine, Darrel Gamotin, Francis Melling, Ellie Posadas
Votes: 181
BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE WINNER
29. Have a Nice Day (2017)
77 min | Animation, Comedy, Crime
A city in southern China and a bag containing a million yuan draw several people from diverse backgrounds with different personal motives into a bloody conflict.
Director: Jian Liu | Stars: Changlong Zhu, Kai Cao, Jian Liu, Siming Yang
Votes: 2,228 | Gross: $0.08M
30. The Great Buddha+ (2017)
102 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
One day when Pickle and his friend Belly Bottom watch the dashcam recordings of Pickle's boss they stumble upon a secret.
Director: Hsin-yao Huang | Stars: Cres Chuang, Bamboo Chu-Sheng Chen, Leon Dai, Shao-Huai Chang
Votes: 4,882
31. They (2017)
Not Rated | 80 min | Drama
Fourteen-year-old J goes by the pronoun 'They' and lives with their parents in the suburbs of Chicago. J is exploring their gender identity while taking hormone blockers to postpone puberty... See full summary »
Director: Anahita Ghazvinizadeh | Stars: Rhys Fehrenbacher, Kooyar Hosseini Golkou, Nicole Coffineau, Norma Moruzzi
Votes: 608
GEORGE C. LIN EMERGING FILMMAKER AWARD WINNER
32. One Day (2017)
TV-14 | 118 min | Drama, Fantasy
A man, who witnessed his wife's suicide, gradually cures his emotional scars through a fateful encounter with a woman in coma...
Director: Yoon-ki Lee | Stars: Kim Nam-gil, Chun Woo-hee, Sang-hee Baek, Won Geun-su
Votes: 649
33. Fermented (2017)
68 min | Documentary
Author and chef Edward Lee finds the beauty in rot on a journey to better understand how the ancient process of fermentation is used in modern times.
Director: Jonathan Cianfrani
Votes: 38
34. Mon Mon Mon Monsters (2017)
Not Rated | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
Shu-wei is an unpopular student who is a constant target for the school bullies, but he ends up joining forces with them when they encounter two demonic sisters who feast on human flesh at night, and they manage to capture one of them.
Director: Giddens Ko | Stars: Yu-Kai Teng, Kent Tsai, Bonnie Liang, Carolyn Chen
Votes: 1,706
35. Shubh Mangal Savdhan (2017)
Not Rated | 119 min | Comedy, Romance
In this remake of Kalyana Samayal Saadham (2013), a couple falls in love, but then the groom discovers that he suffers from erectile dysfunction.
Director: R.S. Prasanna | Stars: Ayushmann Khurrana, Bhumi Pednekar, Seema Pahwa, Anshul Chauhan
Votes: 11,069 | Gross: $0.69M
36. The First Lap (2017)
100 min | Drama
Between reproaches over past problems that were never resolved and the uncertainty of a future that is relentlessly coming closer, a young couple takes a trip that will leave them at the beginning of a new life.
Director: Dae-hwan Kim | Stars: Cho Hyun-chul, Kim Sae-byeok
Votes: 227
37. Small Talk (2016)
88 min | Documentary, Family
A family story of a very special kind. The mother earns a living as a spirit guide for the deceased at their funerals: she was never at home, always out and about with her girlfriends ... See full summary »
Director: Hui-Chen Huang | Star: Hui-Chen Huang
Votes: 399
38. Island Soldier (2017)
85 min | Documentary
The untold story of Micronesian citizens fighting America's wars. Through the personal odyssey of the Nenas, one family experiences the consequences of military service, as they represent a... See full summary »
Director: Nathan Fitch
Votes: 16
AUDIENCE AWARD WINNER
39. 95 and 6 to Go (2016)
86 min | Documentary
Tom Takesue is a hard-working, practical Japanese-American raised in Hawai'i, who discovers his filmmaking aspirations at the age of ninety when he becomes invested in "re-writing" a ... See full summary »
Director: Kimi Takesue
Votes: 44
40. Zui hou de shi ju (2017 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
The millennium summer was the best days in Ren-jie's life. He met Xiao-ping, walked hand in hand with her through their youth and wrote the opening sentence of his life poem. But a visit by... See full summary »
Director: Ying-Ting Tseng | Stars: Meng-Po Fu, Chen-Ling Wen, Run-yin Bai, Wendy Ya-Wen Chang
Votes: 195
41. Our Time Will Come (2017)
PG-13 | 130 min | Drama, War
In Japanese-occupied Hong Kong, a school teacher and her would-be-fiancé link up with Chinese guerrilla fighters, forging their own path to freedom.
Director: Ann Hui | Stars: Xun Zhou, Eddie Peng, Wallace Huo, Deannie Ip
Votes: 1,005 | Gross: $0.10M
42. Before We Vanish (2017)
R | 129 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Three aliens travel to Earth in preparation for a mass invasion, taking possession of human bodies.
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Stars: Masami Nagasawa, Ryûhei Matsuda, Hiroki Hasegawa, Masahiro Higashide
Votes: 2,824 | Gross: $0.05M
43. Finding Kukan (2016)
75 min | Documentary
FINDING KUKAN investigates the story of Chinese Hawaii-born Li Ling-Ai, the un-credited female producer of KUKAN, a 1941 Academy Award-winning color documentary about World War II China that has been lost for decades.
Director: Robin Lung | Stars: Ling-Ai Li, Kelly Hu, Daniel Dae Kim, Richard Balin
Votes: 25
44. Birds Without Names (2017)
TV-14 | 123 min | Drama, Mystery
Tawako's boyfriend is not her kind, but she puts up with it in exchange for shelter. Her old boyfriend of almost a decade ago is long gone, and was also not nice, but like most girls she ... See full summary »
Director: Kazuya Shiraishi | Stars: Yû Aoi, Sadao Abe, Tôri Matsuzaka, Yutaka Takenouchi
Votes: 901
45. Shang an de yu (2017)
90 min | Drama
A young boy searches a small fishing village for his parents from a past life.
Director: Kuo-An Lai | Stars: Run-yin Bai, Peggy Tseng, Jen-Shuo Cheng, Akio Chen
Votes: 63
46. I Am Another You (2017)
80 min | Documentary, Biography
Eating garbage, dodging police, and hitching rides with strangers, award-winning Chinese filmmaker Nanfu Wang shares the streets with a young drifter named Dylan who left a comfortable home... See full summary »
Director: Nanfu Wang | Stars: Dylan, Nanfu Wang
Votes: 538
47. The Valley (2017)
R | 95 min | Drama, Mystery
Devastated by his daughter's suicide, an immigrant entrepreneur working in high-tech seeks answers to his lingering questions.
Director: Saila Kariat | Stars: Alyy Khan, Suchitra Pillai, Jake T. Austin, Agneeta Thacker
Votes: 102
48. The Silent Teacher (2017)
73 min | Documentary, Family
Listen the inner voice of the one you love while she is traveling through the boundary between life and death. In Taiwan medical students call the dead body used for medical dissection "the... See full summary »
Director: Maso Chen
Votes: 87
49. Mrs. Fang (2017)
86 min | Documentary
Surrounded by the careless family and neighbors, Fang Xiuying is deprived of all intellectual abilities and she slowly dies in a modest room, in some of the villages of South China.
Director: Wang Bing | Star: Fang Xiuying
Votes: 318
50. Columbus (I) (2017)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
A Korean-born man finds himself stuck in Columbus, Indiana, where his architect father is in a coma. The man meets a young woman who wants to stay in Columbus with her mother, a recovering addict, instead of pursuing her own dreams.
Director: Kogonada | Stars: John Cho, Haley Lu Richardson, Parker Posey, Michelle Forbes
Votes: 20,973 | Gross: $1.02M
51. Paradox (2017)
101 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A tough Hong Kong cop's 16 y.o. daughter disappears in Pattaya. He goes to Thailand to find her and must deal with corrupt cops but an honest one helps him track down culprits involved in illegal organ trafficking.
Director: Wilson Yip | Stars: Louis Koo, Yue Wu, Ka-Tung Lam, Chris Collins
Votes: 4,357
52. Bamseom Pirates Seoul Inferno (2017)
119 min | Documentary, Music
The Bamseom Pirates from Korea make music appropriate to our sick society: a hundred songs in ten minutes, that kind of thing. This at times noisy, but also sparkling, activist and often ... See full summary »
Director: Yoon-suk Jung
Votes: 25
53. Cocolors (2017)
45 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
There is a world in which an endless rain of dark ash fills the sky and covers the earth. Humanity, fearing the ash that burns and melts away human flesh, had no choice but to cover themselves with gigantic suits.
Director: Toshihisa Yokoshima | Stars: Sawako Hata, Mutsuki Iwanaka, Yoshiko Kamei, Yayoi Nakazawa
Votes: 145
54. The Foolish Bird (2017)
118 min | Drama
A 16 year-old high-school student is left behind by her parents and longing for love. She steals cellphones and sells them to men she doesn't know. As she takes risks, she has her first sexual experience - a cruel one.
Directors: Ji Huang, Ryûji Otsuka | Stars: Yao Fang, Xiao Liqiao, Honggui Yao
Votes: 211
55. No Date, No Signature (2017)
99 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
When Dr. Kaveh Nariman, a forensic pathologist, comes to work he encounters a corpse that looks familiar.
Director: Vahid Jalilvand | Stars: Navid Mohammadzadeh, Amir Aghaee, Hediyeh Tehrani, Zakieh Behbahani
Votes: 6,574 | Gross: $0.04M
56. A Day (2017)
90 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A mystery drama revolving around a father who commits an unethical act in an attempt to save his daughter's life. Three years later, his actions return to haunt him, trapping him in an endless time loop.
Director: Jo Sun-ho | Stars: Kim Myung-min, Byun Yo-han, Shin Hye-sun, Jo Eun-hyung
Votes: 2,954
57. The Villainess (2017)
Not Rated | 124 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A female assassin leaves a trail of bodies behind her as she seeks revenge.
Director: Jung Byung-gil | Stars: Kim Ok-bin, Shin Ha-kyun, Sung Jun, Kim Seo-hyeong
Votes: 16,804 | Gross: $0.03M
58. Dragonfly Eyes (2017)
81 min | Documentary, Mystery
Each of us is captured on surveillance cameras, on average, 300 times a day. These all-seeing 'eyes' observe a young woman named Qing Ting (her name means 'Dragonfly') as she leaves the ... See full summary »
Director: Xu Bing
Votes: 207
59. Taxi Stories (2017)
95 min | Drama
In an increasingly economically polarized and virtually connected 24 hour Asia, a poor Beijing taxi driver, a pregnant Hong Kong trophy wife and a Jakarta slum kid struggle to connect despite the constraints of their social class.
Director: Doris Yeung | Stars: Corallin Cao, Aaron Chow, Thomas Chow, Bo-Bo Fung
Votes: 31
60. One Thousand Ropes (2017)
98 min | Drama
When a father reconnects with his estranged teenage daughter, he is given a rare chance to reshape the future of his family in unexpected ways.
Director: Tusi Tamasese | Stars: Frankie Adams, Lagi Farani, Beulah Koale, Nathaniel Lees
Votes: 146
61. Abu: Father (2017)
80 min | Documentary
Using family archives and animation, Arshad Khan shares a deeply personal story of migration from Pakistan to Canada, self-discovery and familial reconciliation.
Director: Arshad Khan
Votes: 270
62. A Better Man (2017)
85 min | Documentary
Following a series of intimate conversations between a former couple who lived through two years of domestic abuse, A Better Man infuses new energy and possibility into the movement to end violence against women.
Directors: Lawrence Jackman, Attiya Khan | Star: Attiya Khan
Votes: 107
63. The Feels (2017)
TV-MA | 90 min | Comedy, Romance
A lesbian bachelorette weekend goes awry when one of the brides admits she's never had an orgasm.
Director: Jenée LaMarque | Stars: Constance Wu, Angela Trimbur, Josh Fadem, Jenée LaMarque
Votes: 2,266
64. The Cutting Shadow (2017)
18 min | Short, Drama, Mystery
Two Vietnamese half-brothers visit a compatriot interested in reconnecting with his own heritage only to discover temptation, chaos, and an unthinkable secret architecture hidden behind their thin walls of reality.
Directors: Vu Pham, Joe X. Jiang | Stars: Roberto Astorga, Adam Dunlap, Bryce Earhart, Frank Garcia
Votes: 5
Shorts: New Mutants
65. Touring (2017)
15 min | Short, Drama
Reeling from his parents' divorce, a teenager is drawn into the world of a destructive kid, who has a thing for smashing old appliances with a sledgehammer. Together they break into ... See full summary »
Director: Dean Yamada | Stars: Alan Ayala, Saki Miata, Robin O'Rourke, Kyler Ki Sakamoto
Shorts: New Mutants
66. Shuai (2017)
14 min | Short, Drama
8-year-old Shuai is a sensitive kid who is abused by his teacher and neglected by his single father. However he believes that he is a hero.
Director: Raylene Jin | Stars: Yiming Chen, Xiang Huang, Boting Huo, Xiuya Min
Shorts: New Mutants
67. Madness (II) (2017)
12 min | Short, Drama, Thriller
Eun Ju is the perfect 1990's Orange County Korean American House Wife, but when her son, drastically misbehaves in front of her Sunday Church group, Eun Ju must confront her own suppressed internal madness in order to protect her son.
Director: T.J. Choi | Stars: Greena Park, Daniel Juhn, Crystal Lee, Monica Cho
Shorts: New Mutants
68. Girl at the door (2017)
12 min | Short, Action, Drama
Hye-ri practices the armbar maneuver to fight against her drunk father's abusive behavior.
Director: Joosung Song | Stars: Kim Joo-ryung, Jung-Woong Kang, Eun-Jo Lim, Kim Min-sang
Votes: 5
Shorts: New Mutants
69. Iman and the Light Warriors (2017)
12 min | Short, Action, Adventure
Iman and The Light Warriors is a magical realism story about the power of pure love and a community banding together to empower a young king through emotional intelligence.
Directors: Jarrett Woo, Jay Woo | Stars: Shervin Biteng, Jesse Boykins III, Katrina Cheng, Winn Gaspard
Shorts: New Mutants
70. The Adventure of the Afternoon (2016)
8 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
In a beautiful afternoon, a little boy meets an unexpected friend, with whom he starts an adventure journey.
Directors: Wenchun Huang, Shaochang Yang
Shorts for Shorties!
71. Iron Hands (2017)
11 min | Short, Drama, Sport
A twelve-year old girl tries out for the traditionally all-boys Chinese youth Olympic weightlifting team. As she prepares for her final test, she makes an unlikely connection with the weightlifting gym's reclusive groundskeeper.
Director: Johnson Cheng | Stars: Jianbin Huang, Dunhua Kang, Xing Lian, Zixuan Liu
Votes: 41
Shorts for Shorties!
72. Riceballs (2016)
11 min | Short, Drama, Family
A father and a son overcome a death with their love and cultural identity firmly squeezed into a Japanese riceball.
Director: Shingo Usami | Stars: Shingo Usami, Tatsuo, Cat Martin, Benjamin
Votes: 14
Shorts for Shorties!
73. Mosquito: The Bite of Passage (2016)
7 min | Animation, Short, Action
A mosquito on a hunt with her mother for the first time, must confess that she doesn't like blood.
Directors: Teng Cheng, Brian Vincent Rhodes | Stars: Eileen Galindo, Alisa Reyes, Philip Anthony Traylor, Kelley Kali
Votes: 17
Shorts for Shorties!
74. To & Kyo (2017)
5 min | Animation, Short
Imps 'To' and 'Kyo' are playing tag at alley of Tokyo.
Director: Tsuneo Goda
Shorts for Shorties!
75. Pigsy Eats Watermelon (1958)
21 min | Animation, Short
Zhu Ba Jie looks for foods and finds a watermelon. He divides the watermelon into four parts for the master and his fellow apprentices. He eats the biggest part first, and then eats them all.
Director: Guchan Wan
Votes: 19
Classics of Chinese Animation
76. Cake (IV) (2017)
10 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
Eliza tries to explore her sexuality within her marriage with her husband Thomas by surprise ordering a female sex robot for them to share.
Director: Anne Hu | Stars: Anne Hu, Tom Lacey, Daniella Rabbani
Votes: 12
SHORTS: QUEER AS US. NOT SAD!
77. Fault (II) (2017)
11 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
A professional tennis player hurls racist abuse at an estranged brother and sister, provoking unexpected confrontations.
Director: Daniel Lee | Stars: Jill E. Alexander, Daniel Lee, Jully Lee, Scott Prendergast
SHORTS: QUEER AS US. NOT SAD!
78. Devi: Goddess (2017)
13 min | Short, Drama
A young closeted lesbian risks both family and tradition, as she embraces her attraction for her childhood maid, Devi.
Director: Karishma Dube | Stars: Tanvi Azmi, Priyanka Bose, Aditi Vasudev
Votes: 83
SHORTS: QUEER AS US. NOT SAD!
79. Lady Eva (2017)
11 min | Documentary, Short
A brave young transgender woman sets off on a journey to become her true self in the conservative Pacific Island Kingdom of Tonga - with a little inspiration from Tina Turner along the way.
Directors: Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson | Stars: Eva Baron, Joey Joleen Mataele
Votes: 19
SHORTS: QUEER AS US. NOT SAD!
80. Like Animals (2017)
14 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
After the death of their mother, three sisters try to figure out how to move forward with their lives.
Director: Leland Montgomery | Stars: Christopher Matias Aguila, Cass Buggé, Zoë Chao, Lateefah Holder
Votes: 145
SHORTS: QUEER AS US. NOT SAD!
81. Chromosome Sweetheart (2017)
5 min | Animation, Short, Romance
An ex-couple in a café, a girl sucking on her girlfriend's hair, a running woman, a fleeing town, a little girl walking along the river. In this world, there are as many forms of love as there are people.
Director: Honami Yano
Votes: 6
SHORTS: QUEER AS US. NOT SAD!
82. Tear of the Peony (2017)
15 min | Short, Drama
A regret love from a women of Ming Dynasty.
Director: Yuxi Li
SHORTS: QUEER AS US. NOT SAD!
83. Love the Sinner (2017)
15 min | Documentary, Short
Love the Sinner is a short documentary exploring the connection between Christianity and homophobia in the wake of the shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando.
Directors: Jess Devaney, Geeta Gandbhir
Votes: 11
SHORTS: QUEER AS US. NOT SAD!
84. Empathy: A Digital Love Letter (2017)
9 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
EMPATHY (a digital love letter) is a short essay documentary, an attempt to concretize emotion and evoke empathy from a writer's approach. It's inspired by Wadsworth Jarrell's painting ... See full summary »
Director: Qiyue Sun
SHORTS: LOVE ME TINDER
85. Mwah (I) (2017)
13 min | Short, Drama
Five pregnant women sit in their doctor's waiting room, their unborn babies inside of them carry on conversations about their life inside their mommy's belly and even about their futures ... See full summary »
Director: Sara Soheili
SHORTS: LOVE ME TINDER
86. The Future Looked Bright (2017)
13 min | Short, Drama
A young couple hires lawyers to make a relationship contract for their future life together.
Director: Adrien Lacoste | Stars: Masaya Mimura, Erika Nagamine, Shinichi Shirahata, Motokatsu Suzuki
SHORTS: LOVE ME TINDER
87. Santa Claus (I) (2017)
15 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Two lonely neighbors come together to share a Christmas dinner.
Director: Jeff Man | Stars: Yosilu Chen, Jeff Man
SHORTS: LOVE ME TINDER
SPECIAL JURY MENTION WINNER
88. Float (IV) (2017)
22 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Float is a short film set in mid-90s Seattle following the trials and tribulations of a Cambodian hustler named Rocky Mang.
Directors: Tristan Seniuk, Voleak Sip | Stars: Michael Alcantara, Romeo Alcantara, Harry Baluran, Sam Bledsoe
SHORTS: LOVE ME TINDER
BEST NARRATIVE SHORT WINNER
89. F**Ked Up (2017 Video)
17 min | Short, Comedy
A know-it-all tries to prove herself by losing her virginity on the first day of college.
Director: Kevin Lau | Stars: François Chau, Christy Jung-Yun Choi, Gibson Collins, Kevin Graber
Votes: 34
SHORTS: LOVE ME TINDER
90. Travelling Through Brush and Ink (2017)
4 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
**Winner of Worldfest Huston International Film Festival 2017** 'Travelling Through Brush and Ink' is a stop-motion animation of a little modern man traveling through four significant ... See full summary »
Director: Annlin Chao
Votes: 10
SHORTS: BEST OF ASIAN ANIMATION
91. Scent of Geranium (2016)
5 min | Animation, Short
Immigration is a new chapter in one's life, a chapter with unexpected events that can take one's life down paths different from the one imagined. This film is an autobiographical account of the director's experience with immigration.
Director: Naghmeh Farzaneh
Votes: 21
SHORTS: BEST OF ASIAN ANIMATION
92. Tough (2017)
5 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
Some things can only be understood with maturity. New light is shed on childhood cultural misunderstandings when a Chinese mother and her British born daughter speak as adults for the first time.
Director: Jennifer Zheng
Votes: 77
SHORTS: BEST OF ASIAN ANIMATION
93. White Tunnel (2016)
23 min | Animation, Short, Drama
There is an April day with inconsistent weather. A taxi driver, four passengers, sisters and brother are going to visit their mother. As strangers. Chaos is in silence, in their minds, on the road...
Directors: Chin-Wei Chang, Lan-Chi Chien
Votes: 9
SHORTS: BEST OF ASIAN ANIMATION
94. BAO (2017)
G | 18 min | Short, Comedy
Director: Yanqiu Fei | Stars: Ziyang Chen, Ting Huang, Zhixi Ni, Nan Wang
Votes: 7
SHORTS: WHERE THE LIGHT DON’T SHINE
95. Plaza Blvd (2017)
10 min | Short, Family
For many Filipinos, 'home' is a far-off country on the other side of the Pacific Ocean. For many Filipino Americans in San Diego, however, 'home' is a street.With its aroma of freshly baked... See full summary »
Director: Cassandra Pimentel | Stars: Rafe Aksad, Joel Baker, Betty Balonda, Daniel Caburian
SHORTS: WHERE THE LIGHT DON’T SHINE
96. The Last Straw (2017)
6 min | Short, Comedy
A former champion returns to boba competition with the help of a friend to face his over-the-top rival and rediscover his lost passion.
Directors: Vince Cruz, Stanley Wong | Stars: Tony Garbanzos, Cat Limket, Quincy Surasmith, Jessica Blanc
SHORTS: WHERE THE LIGHT DON’T SHINE
97.
Almost Asian (2014– )
Episode:
White Noise
(2017)
Comedy
Katie gets drowned out by some unexpected, yet expected white noise.
Directors: Jonathan Dortch, Katie Malia | Stars: Katie Malia, Nikki Tuazon, Susan Song, Patrick McKenzie
SHORTS: WHERE THE LIGHT DON’T SHINE
98. The Game: The Doc (2016)
26 min | Documentary, Short, Comedy
A Chinese-American man plays Trump: the Game with the people of China to find out whether they love Donald Trump, as he said they would.
Director: Ang Xie | Star: Ang Xie
Votes: 6
SHORTS: WHERE THE LIGHT DON’T SHINE
99. Laundry (III) (2017)
10 min | Short, Comedy
When a happily married woman struggles to find intimacy due to the demands of raising a family, orgasmic pleasure is found in the most unlikely of places
Director: Becs Arahanga | Stars: Aidee Walker, Jarod Rawiri, Mai te Rangi Arahanga, Sol Te Ua Hampton
Votes: 9
SHORTS: WHERE THE LIGHT DON’T SHINE
100. On the Origin of Fear (2016)
12 min | Short, Drama
Darto, a film dubber, working in the most critical Indonesian film during the second cold war.
Director: Bayu Prihantoro Filemon | Stars: Pritt Timothy, Ernanta Kusuma
Votes: 14
SHORTS: CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?
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