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(SECOND ROUND) (MAYDAY)
Taiwan ROC 2012 | 5 min.
Music When life becomes a meaningless routine, a man runs away from it all.
May 11 - 7:30PM CGV Cinemas 2 |
10+10
Taiwan ROC 2011 | 114 min.
Bildungsroman, Coming of Age, Drama, History, Period piece, Politics The cinema of Taiwan is going through a Renaissance. The last era of such grandeur in this island nation's film culture was back in the 1990s, where the works of Edward Yang, Hou Hsiao Hsien,...
May 14 - 6:45PM CGV Cinemas 3 |
2012 (WORLD ORDER)
Japan 2012 | 5 min.
Music Genki Sudo and World Order deliver a message about world peace through their viral dance moves.
May 11 - 7:30PM CGV Cinemas 2 |
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38-39° C
South Korea, United States 2011 | 8 min.
Animation, Experimental, Fantasy A man enters an old bathhouse where induced by the intense heat and steam he relieves a memory of his father. Objects and patterns reappear inducing his desire to rid his father of a birthmark they...
May 12 - 2:15PM Directors Guild of America 2 |
7 DEADLY KISSES
Indonesia 0 | 4 min.
Comedy, Gay/Lesbian Two willing and able male trainees demonstrate the first seven deadly kisses for any relationship.
May 13 - 7:00PM CGV Cinemas 2 |
A DRUMMER'S PASSION
Canada 2011 | 21 min.
Biography, Documentary, Music A Drummer’s Passion is a short profile documentary about a 70-years-old drummer, Kwon Soon Keun. His small ambition to help his parents turned him into a celebrity back in Korea, having...
May 11 - 9:45PM Directors Guild of America 1 |
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ABOUT THE PINK SKY
Japan 2011 | 113 min.
Bildungsroman, Coming of Age, Drama High school girl Izumi finds a wallet with cash, and happens to lend some of the money to a middle-aged man. When she returns the wallet to its owner, a rich high-school boy, he notices...
May 13 - 3:00PM CGV Cinemas 3 |
ALAN NISHIO: PASSING IT ON
United States 2012 | 0 min.
Documentary, Educational, Social Issues Community activist and educator Alan Nishio recounts his growing involvement in student and community activism during the late 1960s, and his ongoing efforts to instill the same spirit for social...
May 12 - 12:30PM CGV Cinemas 3 |
ALMOST THERE
United States 2012 | 17 min.
Drama Does ambition force us to compromise our ideals? What is the cost of success and how far will we go to achieve it? Mimi an artist with a troubled sexual past, works out her issues in her...
May 13 - 12:00PM Directors Guild of America 2 |
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ARISAN! 2
Indonesia 2011 | 113 min.
Comedy, Drama, Gay/Lesbian Back in 2004, The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival was pleased to present ARISAN!, a witty and urbane comedy/drama that observed the lives of members of Jakarta’s upwardly-mobile...
May 15 - 6:45PM CGV Cinemas 2 |
AWAKEN
United States 2011 | 8 min.
Documentary, Social Issues David Cho and his family came to America when he was 9 years old, looking to fulfill the American dream. Through unforeseen circumstances, David’s family lost their legal status, and David...
May 13 - 7:00PM Directors Guild of America 1 |
AYE FOO
United States 2011 | 6 min.
Bildungsroman, Comedy, Coming of Age Two homeys in Downey kick back and deconstruct the meaning of life via random examination of obscure and intriguing factoids.
May 12 - 12:30PM CGV Cinemas 3 |
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BALLOONS GO POP
United States 2011 | 15 min.
Thriller BALLOONS GO POP is a story about one man’s unusual ways to appease his desires and temptations. The short film explores a day in the life of a middle-aged loner who tries to go about his...
May 13 - 7:30PM Directors Guild of America 2 |
BASKETBALL, MERI JAAN
United States 0 | 5 min.
Documentary, Family "Basketball, Meri Jaan" centers on the life of Yeshodhara, a vibrant woman who immigrated to the United States from India thirty years ago. The film illustrates how her lifelong love of...
May 13 - 7:00PM Directors Guild of America 1 |
BATTLESHIP
United States 2012 | 132 min.
Action, Environment, Science Fiction THIS SPECIAL ADVANCE SNEAK PEEK IS FREE TO THE PUBLIC.
BATTLESHIP begins in 2005, when NASA discovers an extra-solar planet with conditions similar to Earth. On the chance that it contains...
May 16 - 7:00PM CGV Cinemas 1 |
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BEHIND CALENDAR SMILES
United States 2012 | 6 min.
Biography, Family Friendly What are the stories behind the pictures of a calendar? The filmmaker shares her deepest retrospection of family secrets.
May 15 - 4:00PM CGV Cinemas 2 |
BLESSED ASSURANCE
U.S. Outlying Islands 2011 | 10 min.
Environment, Ethnographic What if the worlds supply of gasoline mysteriously vanished?
May 12 - 2:15PM Directors Guild of America 2 |
BLOOD LETTER
Vietnam 2012 | 90 min.
Action/Adventure, History Over the past decade, the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival has spotlighted the Viet Wave — the current movement of Vietnamese American filmmakers who have returned to the motherland to...
May 12 - 7:30PM Directors Guild of America 2 May 15 - 9:30PM CGV Cinemas 3 |
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BLUE
New Zealand 2010 | 14 min.
Drama Blue is a hard working waiter in an Asian restaurant trying his best to keep his job. He always keeps a smiley face on as he serves the food. Blue is different than other people. He used to have a...
May 12 - 2:15PM Directors Guild of America 2 |
BORN FO BANG
United States 2011 | 12 min.
Coming of Age, Drama When a Hawai'ian youth refuses to beat up a haole as part of his gang initiation, his older brother threatens to ex-communicate him from the gang and his family. BORN FO BANG is written...
May 12 - 12:30PM CGV Cinemas 3 |
THE BREAKFAST TABLE
South Korea 2011 | 8 min.
Drama A mother is busy making her son’s breakfast and preparing to go to work in the morning. The child who doesn’t fully wake up is sitting on a chair nodding and having a sweet dream. The...
May 16 - 9:30PM CGV Cinemas 2 |
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BROTHERS
United States 2011 | 12 min.
Drama, Family BROTHERS is a short student film about two brothers—one good (Song), the other bad (Gai Daan). But the night before Song is about to go away to college, their roles are unexpectedly reversed,...
May 13 - 12:30PM CGV Cinemas 3 |
BULLIFIED
United States 2011 | 4 min.
Action, Comedy Billy, an angry bully, relentlessly chases his victim Ned through the streets of New York. The pursuit leads them to Chinatown where they happen to disrupt a group of workers on their lunch break....
May 14 - 7:00PM CGV Cinemas 1 |
BUREAUCRACY SONATA
India 2011 | 26 min.
Politics Set in an era of political crisis, this film follows four days in the life of a jailer whose passion for music is juxtaposed with a threat of a possible jailbreak.
May 12 - 5:00PM CGV Cinemas 2 |
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Behind Aloha Smiles
2012 | 90 min.
Educational
As opposed to the portrayals of our 50th State as seen in recent films as 50 FIRST DATES, JUST GO WITH IT, BLUE CRUSH, and the TV series HAWAII FIVE-O, locally-born and/or based Hawaiian...
May 13 - 1:00PM Directors Guild of America 3 |
Breaking Barriers, Crossing Cultures
79 min. | Plays with: ALAN NISHIO: PASSING IT ON, AYE FOO, BORN FO BANG, EL MONTE, FULL OUT, HEART AND SOUL COLLECTIVE "MY L.A.", I AM AN ASIACAN, PRESERVING THE LEGACY: TOKUJI YOSHIHASHI, SITZ TO STAGE, TRYNA PLAY SOME CARDS, UNPLUGGED: A 14-DAY CHALLENGE, WHAT I WANT
May 12 - 12:30PM CGV Cinemas 3 |
CAFÉ ELEVÉ
United States 2012 | 5 min.
Drama Set during a late summer’s evening, CAFÉ ELEVÉ tells of a former ballerina who has sacrificed her passion in order to support her family. Upon finding an item left behind by a...
May 13 - 7:00PM Directors Guild of America 1 |
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CASTING SHADOWS
United States 0 | 14 min.
Fantasy, Women CASTING SHADOWS portrays the internal struggle of a Korean-American woman living in the Californian suburbs. Longing to reconnect with the memory of her mother, Lillian idealizes Korea with an...
May 13 - 12:30PM CGV Cinemas 3 |
CHINA HEAVYWEIGHT
Canada, China 2012 | 89 min.
Coming of Age, Documentary Yung Chang, director of the multi-award-winning UP THE YANGTZE (Festival 2008) returns to this year’s Film Festival with a hard-hitting new documentary seemingly timed for this Olympic year,...
May 12 - 2:15PM CGV Cinemas 2 |
THE CHINESE GARDENS
United States 2012 | 17 min.
Documentary, Educational, Ethnographic, Experimental, History, Social Issues, Women The Chinese Gardens looks at the lost Chinese community in Port Townsend, WA, examining anti-Chinese violence in the Pacific Northwest in the late 1800s and drawing connections between past and...
May 14 - 7:00PM CGV Cinemas 1 |
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CHOKED
South Korea 2011 | 110 min.
Drama Kwon Youn-ho (Um Tae-goo) lives with his mother in a dull, nondescript apartment owned by his aunt. An otherwise earnest young man trying to eke out a living and keep his girlfriend happy, Youn-ho...
May 11 - 9:30PM CGV Cinemas 2 |
