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SDAFF 2024 Little Red Sweet
The legacy of a family-owned sweet soup shop in the back alleyways of Hong Kong begins showing strains when the mom holding everything together suffers a stroke. So May (Stephy Tang) is the elder daughter of the family, and dreams of escaping the life chained to the kitchen she was never allowed into anyway, by becoming a flight attendant. Her father (Simon Yam), highly traditional and stubborn, eternally critical and curmudgeonly, merely seems to suffer his and his families’ existence,...
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SDIFF 2021 presents Val
A criminal on the run holes up in the mansion of a courtesan who holds some serious secrets of her own!
SDAFF 2017 presents ‘The Valley’: The true worth of a pearl lies within
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Director: Saila Kariat Studio: Wavefront Productions Review Rating: 7 out of 10 Neal Kumar (Alyy Khan) thought he had worked hard enough to make a perfect world for his wife Roopa and daughters, Monica (Salma Khan) and Maya. They have the...
San Diego Film Week presents ‘A Life Lived’: For Love or Money?
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Director: Riley Wood Studio: Not A Camel Productions Review Rating: 8 out of 10 The journey of a single dollar bill and the lives it affects, inadvertently and directly, along the way. We as collective humans have more in common with...