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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 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.
SDAFF 2015 presents Crush The Skull
Some rather hapless and desperate thieves end up trapped in the house they intended to rob, which it turns out is the lair of a deranged serial killer!
SDAFF 2015 presents The Royal Tailor
The film rather incongruously begins with a modern-day showing of a fabulous hanbok (traditional Korean dress) wedding dress, apparently mistakenly attributed to the only royal tailor of Korea’s Joseon dynasty, Jo Dol-seok.