Hyun-soo gets a phone call from home in the middle of a meeting. What awaits ahead is an array of mishaps, accidents, fears and murders.
The 72 Hour Film Shootout
AAIFF is proud to co-present with the Asian American Film Lab the 72 Hour Shootout screening and awards ceremony. Contestants are given 72 hours to write, shoot, and edit a 5-minute short film on a surprise theme. The top ten films of this year’s comp ...
SHANGHAI LOVE MARKET
AAIFF12Category (2012)China (2012)Excellence in Short Film Award Nominee (2012)In the Name of Love(2012)International (2012)Narrative (2012)Romantic Comedy (2012)S (2012)Short (2012)Short Film (2012)Singapore (2012)
Every weekend in Shanghai’s Peoples’ Park, parents hang posters to match-make their unwed children. Love however has a funny way of changing even the best-laid plans.
MY SPIRITUAL MEDICINE
AAIFF12Category (2012)China (2012)Countries (2012)Drama (2012)Excellence in Short Film Award Nominee (2012)Genres (2012)Identity Issues (2012)International (2012)Letter (2012)LGBTQ (2012)LGBTQ NightLove, Interrupted (2012)M (2012)Narrative (2012)Romance (2012)Short (2012)Short Film (2012)
Two white-collar clerks sets up a private radio program in Shanghai, an Otaku lady lives in isolation. Their random fates are linked by the radio.
COMRADES
AAIFF12C (2012)Category (2012)Countries (2012)Drama (2012)Genres (2012)How To... (2012)Letter (2012)Narrative (2012)Short (2012)Short Film (2012)USA (2012)
Fourth-graders Ronald and Diego are best friends and comrades in a roleplaying war-game until Lieutenant Diego betrays General Ronald, blurring the line between friendship and fantasy.
THE TELEGRAM MAN
AAIFF12Australia (2012)Category (2012)Countries (2012)Drama (2012)Genres (2012)How To... (2012)International (2012)Letter (2012)Narrative (2012)Short (2012)T (2012)
Adapted from a short story by John Boyne, the award-winning author of “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas”, The Telegram Man tells the story of how war inexorably spreads beyond the battlefield.
A FLICKER IN ETERNITY
A (2012)AAIFF12Animation (2012)Asian American (2012)Category (2012)Coming of Age (2012)Countries (2012)Documentary (2012)Genres (2012)Identity Issues (2012)Letter (2012)Short (2012)Social Justice (2012)This American Life (2012)USA (2012)
Based on the true story of Stanley Hayami, a talented Japanese-American teenager caught between his dream of becoming an artist and his duty to his country during WWII.
BLEACHED
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Swayed by the prospect of attention from both her image-obsessive mother and a cute boy, Lenny, a Filipino-American girl, concedes to using a skin-lightening cream at the price of her identity.