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CAAMFEST: MATTERS OF BELIEF (Shorts Program)
Faith, ritual, conjuring, dreams – the investments that assemble our belief systems are expansively diverse. These films show how rituals mark the rhythm of our lives and speak to our ability to manifest change around us through the power of belief.
Expected Guests in Attendance: Director Samina Saifee (Ayat), Director Catherine Nguyen (White Butterfly), Director Laura Skokan (The Fanatics), Director Jacqueline Can (Chan is Fishing), Director Mitch Truong (Dawn of Skates), Director/Writer Andrea Walter (i’m in love with edgar allan poe)
CAAMFEST: NIKAH
2017- the stage is set in the Uyghur Region, and Dilber is 27 year-old and her little sister, Rena, is getting married. Her mother puts it on herself to find a husband as soon as possible. We learn it isn’t just because of Dilber’s age, but because of the local government’s mounting pressures on a quickly shrinking Uyghur community. More and more Uyghurs are arrested every day, for unclear reasons, heightening the state of anxiety for all. An outside perspective from her girlfriend, Gulnur, in Paris, offers a solution and it comes at many costs, but will it be enough? A crafted film, with rare and fetching scenes of Xinjiang Uyghur, and a distant life in Paris depicted only through a vertical frame on a smartphone. A beautiful yet haunting cautionary tale of a receding culture that may otherwise be unknown.
CAAMFEST: MEETING YOU, MEETING ME
Meeting You, Meeting Me is a film that suggests that two women, so starkly different from each other, can still care, and inspire one another in powerful ways. A semi-chance encounter (aka Craigslist purchase) becomes a transformative one nonetheless. Their connection, complete with imperfections, will delight you in its subtleties, and we find ourselves as witnesses projecting onto the characters of Sav and Simone, our own deeply trusting friendships.
Expected Guests in Attendance: Director Lina Suh, Producer Sharon Park, Producer Anna Park
CAAMFEST: ROOTS AND ROUTES: INDIGENOUS LEGACIES
What does it mean to remember? How is culture transmitted and translated generation to generation? These films highlight two stories of community resilience that reveal the efforts of advocacy and cultural stewardship that sustain deep, enduring legacies.
CAAMFEST: KINETIC INHERITANCES (Shorts Program)
Sensuous images and euphonious music map a transpacific arkipelago of Filipina/o/x diaspora through the eyes and experiences of local Bay Area Pinoy filmmakers. Through these films, land, place, and body fold into a powerful record of diasporic expression. Histories of imperialism in the Philippines and racial disenfranchisement in the US find remediation in the proud, virtuosic work of these Filipino storytellers.
CAAMFEST: OWL
After a few years away, Jean Kaneko returns home to Oakland to help her ailing father. Hoping there’s a quick band aid solution so she can get back to her life, she realizes the problems are bigger than expected. Being home brings up painful memories that she must face. Meanwhile, she takes over her dad’s locksmith business and through these jobs she begins to learn more about the world (and herself), including a risky opportunity that may help her dad – but at what cost is she willing to do it?
EAST BAY including special video introduction from the filmmaker
An unexpectedly uplifting comedy about a 39-year-old man who is forced to accept he’s a failure, and starts having hallucinations that make him question reality. He turns to his friends, whose lives also haven’t exactly gone as planned.
IMDBMARS EXPRESS
Set in the 23rd century on Mars, the plot follows the investigation on a murder case carried out by the couple formed by private investigator Aline Ruby and her android companion Carlos Rivera.
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