2020 DC APA FILM FESTIVAL

A girl befriends a rabbit only to face the inevitable harsh reality that is her family business.

After a four-year separation, Huixian, a Chinese woman, is reunited with her PhD husband in Florida, and is introduced to another side of American life.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the Vietnamese American residents of Versailles returned and rebuilt their community, only to have their homes threatened by a new government-imposed urban redevelopment.

A Taiwanese grandma has to travel from a rural town in central Taiwan to the capital city of Taipei to pull Alan, her American-born grandson, out of jail before he gets deported by a vindictive police officer.

An intimate recording between a mother and her 7-year-old daughter about divorce, as the daughter struggles with what she knows is right versus how she really feels.

The five-part documentary series from PBS traces the epic story of Asian Americans, spanning 150 years of immigration, racial politics, international relations and cultural innovation.

The surprisingly funny coming-of-age story of one Japanese-American undocumented immigrant.

A Korean American boy, Yong, desperate to fit in at school makes a wish to become his idol, the world’s most famous foul-mouthed comedian!

A father recognizes different racial stigmas and worries that he may not have all the tools to guide his son through the gauntlet of racism.

A woman and her son visit her late husband’s grave - situated in a former fishing village that is now concealed somewhere underneath a new golf course.

In the desert city of Mojave, an enthusiastic aerospace engineer named Grace flies her plane over the weekends.

An 80's-driven action comedy revolving around a spirited maid and an overzealous secret agent.

All the moments I have been on stage in childhood and what they have taught me.

Nova Dante has one job: caretaker to the Dante family cemetery and the ghosts that live within.

Released in 2012. “Daylight Savings” rejoins San Francisco musician Goh Nakamura one year after “Surrogate Valentine” left off.

A young boy's devotion to his family is tested when he decides to tell his mother about his father's affair.

“ephemeral.” is cinéma vérité reflecting on the experience that many refugees and undocumented immigrants go through because of war and bloodshed.

Conflict ensues between a first-generation Chinese mother and her ABC daughter when the latter gets pregnant.

She farms as rebellion against industrialized food on her 2/3 acre.

Chuh was deported to Vietnam, leaving Rex and their four daughters behind in the U.S. The family and their communities mobilize to fight for Chuh’s return to the U.S.

A once celebrated pianist now crippled by the late-stages of Alzheimer's disease, Ruby decides to master piano piece hoping that the music will re-establish the connection with her husband.

In the wake of their parent's untimely death, Leo starts exhibiting strange and oddly supernatural behavior.

Bunseng Taing, a Cambodian refugee in 1980 that survived the Killing Fields and other horrors, was among the 45,000 escapees that fled to what they thought was Thailand, only to be forced back over the landmine infested Cambodian border.

A multi-generational film of a unique, vanishing culture of Polynesian women jugglers in The Kingdom of Tonga.

Emily is a troubled spirit who haunts her own house every day and wonders why she can’t leave.

Released in 2020. Three women who could not be more different have one thing in common: their flawed romantic history with singer-songwriter Goh Nakamura.

A Mongolian single mother fights to save her son who is about to be executed, only to discover that the absence of justice is crushing her life.

A middle-aged single parent, brings his son from Hong Kong to California under the pretense of visiting Disneyland. The son, Chun, comes to realize the real intention of the trip is for his own adoption.

A dark comedy about a man who discovers that his fiancée has kidnapped his high school bully for his 30th birthday with the hope that he’ll take his revenge.

A Korean girl with a severely scarred face goes to a black market hospital in Queens for plastic surgery.

Soo is forced to leave her work because of her depression and having a hard time to adjusting as a new mom.

The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plants disaster resulted in a meltdown of nuclear reactors on March 11, 2011 in Japan.

Empress Eura, ruler of the distant world of Adin, faces her greatest challenge when she is forced to choose between trusting or killing a mysterious monster who arrives with a warning that could save or destroy her people.

A young aspiring Chinese pianist and a Mexican house painter, unknowing neighbors, go through a day of disillusionment in symphony, a longing to belong.

Attempting to reconnect their relationship, father and son share a hike up the mountain. When they reach the top, the son has one final question for him.

Saki receives an unexpected phone call from her long lost father. They reunite to share stories and feelings of their separation.

Quận 13 is home to the Parisian Asian Quarters, Gray's journey takes her all over Paris and into the kitchens of the Vietnamese keeping their cultural identity alive through food.

Raheel, an Afghan national, has illegally traveled to Iran to look for her husband, but there comes up some problems that leave her no hope to move ahead.

Three Cham American high school students chronicle their experiences during Ramadan, the Muslim Holy Month.

Chef Mutsuko Soma created the best soba noodles from scratch with buckwheat flour and water.

A young, single woman bored with her social life caters a party for a beautiful couple and finds the charismatic boyfriend also looking for something new.

Released in 2011. Goh Nakamura is a San Francisco musician trying to break into the music scene. He agrees to do a favor for a filmmaker friend and teaches TV star Danny how to play the guitar for his upcoming movie role.

A beautiful lady goes to a high-class dating dinner, bringing a male secretary with her.

When a timid, mid-western boy decides to propose to his girlfriend, he has to go through her immigrant, Chinese mother first.

In the near future, when all labor works are replaced by humanoids, a Chinese chef is ordered to pass on his cooking skill to a humanoid robot in the midst of protests against AI replacing the human labor.

A North-Korean spy, abandoned in South Korea for 20 years, suddenly receives the order to leave Seoul and his family.

A mother bird searching for her baby son that accidentally falls into a hole.

An intimate glimpse into the lives of those who formed the first visible group of transgender men in the Pacific Islands.

This Academy-Award nominated film is a powerful statement about racism in working-class America. It relates the stark facts of Vincent Chin's brutal murder.

Ninlawan Pinyo is the matriarch of a Thai American family, who hustled for her fortune by founding a naem (pork sausage) factory in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

A patchwork girl chases a falling star and befriends a tortoise warrior to discover the star's secrets.