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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 dive into her unexamined past and personal traumas. We all know the Vietnam war had a ton of repercussions, both in Vietnam and here in America, affecting soldiers and civilians alike for generations to come. What isn’t often...
Previous featured Events
SDAFF 2013 presents Finding Mr. Right
A pregnant Mistress travels to Seattle to have her baby in secret, only to learn life lessons of humility and kindness, when her world of leisure and money begins to fall apart!
SDAFF 2013 presents The Haumana
After their beloved Hula instructor dies and chooses as her successor a native considered to be a sellout to his own people, the boys of the Royal Hula company struggle to continue the dancing legacy of cultural generations.
SDAFF 2014 presents The Songs of Rice
A visual record of rice culture and its impact, influences, and observances of the people of different parts of Thailand.