Event Reviews
All the conventions, festivals and other exhausting live events you can shake a camera at.
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SDAFF 2025 : Resurrection
San Diego Asian Film Festival 2025 In a world where people have stopped dreaming in order to expand their lifespans, a few brave folk still dream, warping the fabric of time. The film gives us five dreams, one for each of the senses, each representing a chronological period of Chinese film and cinema. Only at the best festival to attend all year, the San Diego Asian Film Festival, can you watch a film that’s surreal, moving, confusing and chaotic and gorgeous, all wrapped up as a love...
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SDAFF Spring Showcase 2025 : Baby Assassins: Nice Days
Reviewed by Alicia Glass In the third installment of the Baby Assassins series, teenage hitpeople Chisato and Mahiro visit the coastal town of Miyazaki, on a combination mission and vacation, when they encounter a fellow bloodthirsty assassin as a new...
SDAFF Spring Showcase 2025 : Lucky Star
Reviewed by Alicia Glass After falling prey to a tax scam, reformed gambler Lucky goes through increasingly desperate actions to try and make ends meet for his struggling family. So when we meet Lucky (Terry Chen), he’s already or more accurately still in...
SDAFF Spring Showcase 2025 : Soldier of Love
Reviewed by Alicia Glass The story of rising Kazakh music star Beybut and his navigating the trappings, and failings, of fame. So apparently the now-familiar story trope of a musician who climbs to fame and ignores or casts aside everyone who helped him...