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SDAFF 2025 : Manok
San Diego Asian Film Festival 2025 After clashing with the younger queer generation, proudly open lesbian bar-owner Manok returns to her hometown to face yet more prejudice, and take on her smarmy ex-husband, who is now the equivalent of town mayor. South Korea enjoys a reputation for being a bit more open-minded than her Asian neighbors when it comes to homosexuality, but that is only a fairly recent occurrence. Parts of Seoul now have thriving LGBTQIA+ bars, clubs, and other...
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SDAFF 2024 New Wave
Reviewed by Alicia Glass The film is half a recollection of displaced Vietnamese kids fled to America after the Vietnam war creating a community of their own around the super-popular New Wave music movement, and half a biographical journey of filmmaker Elizabeth Ai’s...
SDAFF 2024 Shanghai Blues
Reviewed by Alicia Glass The amazing 4K restoration of a beloved 1984 classic for its 40th Anniversary, Shanghai Blues tells the story of a pair of star-crossed lovers who, determined to meet up after the war with the Japanese is over, endure all sorts of...
SDAFF 2024 All We Imagine As Light
Reviewed by Alicia Glass In the lonely, crowded city of Mumbai, a pair of female Nurse roommates struggle with repressed desires, societal expectations, and the eternal weight of reality that crushes human dreams. So Prabha (Kani Kusruti) and Anu (Divya Prabha) are...