Event Reviews
All the conventions, festivals and other exhausting live events you can shake a camera at.
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SDAFF 2025 : Magellan
San Diego Asian Film Festival 2025 Set during the Age of Discovery, in 1504 famed Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan discovers the Filipino land of Malacca, plus his subsequent on-going attempts to capture and colonize said lands and people. The film is full of gorgeous views of the Phillipines, where it was filmed, the jungles and the beaches, full of life with Malaccan natives living their untroubled lives, until the advent of the Portuguese conquerors. Because, make no...
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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...
SDAFF 2025 : Project Y
San Diego Asian Film Festival 2025 Two friends tired of their precarious existence in the nighttime life of Gangnam, in South Korea, plan to gather a bunch of money and start a new business elsewhere, only to find themselves embroiled in fixed sports games with...
SDAFF 2025 : Haunted Mountains The Yellow Taboo
San Diego Asian Film Festival 2025 Legend speaks of haunted mountains in Taiwan, where lost hikers are led astray by a ghostly apparition in a yellow slicker, to their deaths. Time loop horror is a relatively new sub-genre of horror, with movies like...