Event Reviews
All the conventions, festivals and other exhausting live events you can shake a camera at.
Current featured Event
SDAFF Spring Showcase 2025 : Between Goodbyes
Reviewed by Alicia Glass The story of a queer Korean adoptee and her reunion with her original family, sharing cultural misunderstandings, long-held regrets, and familial bonds with laughter and eventually, love. When the film begins, the Kim family and the daughter they had to give up for adoption, Mieke Murkes, have already connected in person, and gone their separate ways since. And while lamenting the attempts of making actual connections with her birth family and the troubles...
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.


