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Wed, Jun 25, 2025
ALL THAT WE LOVE
Bringing together an ensemble cast of Margaret Cho, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Kenneth Choi, Atsuko Okatsuka, and Missi Pyle, local filmmaker Yen Tan’s ALL...
Wed, Jun 25, 2025 6:30 pm
AFS Cinema
Thu, Jun 26, 2025
TEXAS SHORTS
Our Texas Shorts block celebrates the vibrant spirit of the Lone Star State, inviting audiences into a charming foray of creativity, transformation, a...
Thu, Jun 26, 2025 5:30 pm
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PAYING FOR IT
Sook-Yin Lee brings a very personal story of her own to the silver screen with her latest film PAYING FOR IT. After breaking things off with her longt...
Thu, Jun 26, 2025 8:15 pm
AFS Cinema
Fri, Jun 27, 2025
NIGHT AND FOG IN KURDISTAN
The Yazidis, a Kurdish-speaking people of what is now Iraqi Kurdistan, have been oft persecuted for maintaining their traditional culture, including a...
Fri, Jun 27, 2025 5:00 pm
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CHINATOWN CHA-CHA
Chinatown Cha-Cha follows Coby Yee, a 93-year-old former nightclub dancer, as she joins the Grant Avenue Follies—a troupe of Chinatown’s golden-age pe...
Fri, Jun 27, 2025 7:45 pm
AFS Cinema
Centerpiece Party
Celebrate with us for our Centerpiece Party at St. John Studios! Late-night bites, drinks, and ice-cold treats will be served along with cool vibes.
Fri, Jun 27, 2025 9:30 pm
St. John Studios
Sat, Jun 28, 2025
NARRATIVE SHORTS
This year brings another set of diverse narrative short films that has many of their characters restless and in search of something. Resolute intentio...
Sat, Jun 28, 2025 11:00 am
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YOUR TOUCH MAKES OTHERS INVISIBLE
In Rajee Samarasinghe’s visually stunning, genre-bending debut, we are taken on a painful journey many don’t know exist. YOUR TOUCH MAKES OTHERS INVIS...
Sat, Jun 28, 2025 1:45 pm
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THIRD ACT
Third Act is a bittersweet father-son story from director Tadashi Nakamura (AAAFF 2021 documentary short film winner Atomic Café: The Noisiest Corner ...
Sat, Jun 28, 2025 3:45 pm
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STANDING ABOVE THE CLOUDS
Jalena Keane-Lee’s head-on testament to courage and sacrifice of the kiaʻi (protectors), Standing Above the Clouds lays bare the high-stakes battle of...
Sat, Jun 28, 2025 6:10 pm
AFS Cinema
THE TRIO HALL
This spectacularly eccentric satire by Su Hui-Yu draws on 1970s Taiwanese TV culture and has a roller-skating Hitler dance with Stalin and Mao do the ...
Sat, Jun 28, 2025 8:30 pm
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Sun, Jun 29, 2025
MADE IN ETHIOPIA
Co-directors Xinyan Yu and Max Duncan's Made in Ethiopia offers an unprecedented look at China’s complex influence on Africa through the lens of a mas...
Sun, Jun 29, 2025 11:30 am
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DOCUMENTARY SHORTS
In this compelling block of short documentaries, bold filmmakers pursue truth to uncover the layered depths of our humanity. A Palestinian filmmaker r...
Sun, Jun 29, 2025 1:50 pm
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SABAR BONDA (CACTUS PEARS)
Very different circumstances bring childhood friends Anand and Balya back together in rural India. They find themselves continuously drawn to each oth...
Sun, Jun 29, 2025 4:20 pm
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WATERDROP
Alone in the world with the death of her grandmother and guardian, thirteen-year-old Suyeon dreads her imminent absorption by the state child-care sys...
Sun, Jun 29, 2025 6:40 pm
AFS Cinema
SUNSHINE
Leading Filipina director Antoinette Jadaone (AAAFF 2021 award-winner Fan Girl) returns with another gripping tale of youth in turmoil. Winner of the ...
Sun, Jun 29, 2025 8:55 pm
AFS Cinema