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 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...