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SDAFF 2025 : Left-Handed Girl

SDAFF 2025 : Left-Handed Girl

San Diego Asian Film Festival 2025  After spending years in the country, a single mother and her two daughters move to Taipei and open a noodle stall in a bustling night market.  Family ties that bind are also the ones that gag, right? Trying to survive on your own, with no husband for support and extra funds, armed with a fractious teenage daughter and a precocious toddler daughter, mom has little to shield her from the scorn of her elders and the rest of her extended family....

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SDIFF 2025 : Fantasy Life

SDIFF 2025 : Fantasy Life

San Diego International Film Festival 2025  After he was fired from his paralegal job, Sam takes a job babysitting his psychiatrists' three granddaughters, and falls for their famous actress mother.  A quirky little year-long look at the hidden relationships...

SDIFF 2025 : Aontas

SDIFF 2025 : Aontas

 San Diego International Film Festival 2025  When an unlikely trio of women attempt to rob a rural Irish Credit Union, a told-backwards chronology reveals what led to such an inadvisable and desperate act.  In this hard-bitten past-regretting look at a small...

SDIFF 2025 : 100 Liters of Gold

SDIFF 2025 : 100 Liters of Gold

San Diego International Film Festival 2025 Middle-aged sisters Taina and Paivi, famous in their Finnish village for making a traditional beer called ‘sahti’ via old family recipes, are hired to provide all the drink for a friends’ wedding, only to have to scramble to...