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SDAFF 2025 : 3670

SDAFF 2025 : 3670

San Diego Asian Film Festival 2025  The story of a North Korean defector trying to find a new life, and perhaps some queer love, in South Korea’s cosmopolitan Seoul.  Being an openly-ish gay male in South Korea is a fairly recent thing, and though there are now several “gay districts”, in Seoul and other places, there is still a sense of hesitancy to live loud and Proud. But like so many other wondrous things to come out of Korea in the last decade or so, the rainbow children of...

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SDIFF 2024 Mr. Blake at Your Service!

SDIFF 2024 Mr. Blake at Your Service!

Reviewed by Alicia Glass Andrew Blake is a recently widowed British businessman, who finds himself taking on an unexpected job as a butler when he returns to the French manor house in northern France to be closer to the memory of his late French wife. Based on the...

SDIFF 2024 Conclave

SDIFF 2024 Conclave

Reviewed by Alicia Glass Based on the 2016 novel of the same name by Robert Harris - when the Pope passes on, the college of Cardinals from all over the world convene in Rome to elect the new Pontiff, as shocking revelations and disturbances from the candidates come...