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SDAFF 2025 : Left-Handed Girl

SDAFF 2025 : Left-Handed Girl

San Diego Asian Film Festival 2025  After spending years in the country, a single mother and her two daughters move to Taipei and open a noodle stall in a bustling night market.  Family ties that bind are also the ones that gag, right? Trying to survive on your own, with no husband for support and extra funds, armed with a fractious teenage daughter and a precocious toddler daughter, mom has little to shield her from the scorn of her elders and the rest of her extended family....

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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...

SDIFF 2025 : Terroir

SDIFF 2025 : Terroir

SDIFF 2025 : Terroir Three wine connoisseur friends, visiting a vineyard in France for a review for Kirsta’s mothers’ wine ranking magazine, discover a link to their recent past coming back to haunt them.  Little in this world is as arrogant and condescending, as...