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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 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...
SDAFF 2024 Little Red Sweet
The legacy of a family-owned sweet soup shop in the back alleyways of Hong Kong begins showing strains when the mom holding everything together suffers a stroke. So May (Stephy Tang) is the elder daughter of the family, and dreams of escaping the life chained to the...
SDIFF 2024 Nightbitch
Reviewed by Alicia Glass A woman who put her career on hold to become a first-time stay-at-home-Mom finds her smaller world taking an almost supernatural turn. This is an odd one ya’ll. The film is touted as a body-horror dark comedy, but struggles to find a role, a...