Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival

Past Lives

By Alan Ng | September 2023

NOW ON BLU-RAY AND DVD! The sign of a good romance is just how emotionally wrecked you feel by the end. Writer-director…

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NOW ON BLU-RAY AND DVD! The sign of a good romance is just how emotionally wrecked you feel by the end. Writer-director Celine Song's Past Lives hits all...

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CINEQUEST FILM FESTIVAL 2023 REVIEW! I'll say it over and over again, families shouldn't keep secrets from one another. But then again, that makes for...

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LOS ANGELES ASIAN PACIFIC FILM FESTIVAL 2023 REVIEW! The Grizzlie Truth tells veteran sports documentarian Kathleen S. Jayme's deeply personal and tragic...

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LOS ANGELES ASIAN PACIFIC FILM FESTIVAL 2023 REVIEW! Sebastien Tobler's romance, This Time, does precisely what romances need to do. The writer-director...

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NOW ON VOD! From the title alone, it is clear that Tom Huang's Dealing with Dad is about a child's strained relationship with their father. Fractured...

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NOW IN THEATERS! Bad Axe may be named after a small, conservative Michigan town, but this documentary is about a devoted Asian American family and their...

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In 1885, in the town of Eureka, the Chinese immigrants who helped build this Northern California gold mining town were violently expelled in what was known...

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NOW ON PBS! In late 2019, the coronavirus began infecting people, and rather quickly, it spread around the world and caused lockdowns in dozens of...

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A young woman struggles to break her accent in Shicong Zhu's short film, de closin night. Siyi (Ella Rouwen Chen) is a student from China attending a...

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LOS ANGELES ASIAN PACIFIC FILM FESTIVAL 2022 REVIEW! Masked gunmen have taken a school hostage, and a band of armed locals comes to save the day. One can...

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