Our closing night feature is the award-winning ROBOT STORIES from New York filmmaker Greg Pak. Billed as “science fiction from the heart” and featuring Tamlyn Tomitaand Sab Shimono, ROBOT STORIES is an anthology of four short stories that explore the varied relationships…

A series of short films exploring Asian American sexuality, culminating in MASTERS OF THE PILLOW, an unprecedented documentary about UC Davis professor Darrell Hamamoto’s attempt to repair the sexual image of Asian American males by producing an Asian American erotic…

Festival director Wes Kim has put together a program of his favorite picks encountered during his festival travels. Just sit back, enjoy, and leave the driving to us! Note: A portion of ticket sales will be donated to the SFSU Don…

From Canada come two assured works by women filmmakers: LILY’S CRICKETS tells the story of a successful businesswoman who must leave her urban enclave and return to her family’s small-town bakery following the death of her father, and C.D. HOY:…

Curiously, all our Northwest narrative filmmakers in this program hail from the United States, while our animators all come from Canada. Coincidence? You be the judge as you proceed on a whirlwind tour of dreamlike memories, martial arts, thwarted love,…

NOTE: This program repeats at 1pm on Saturday, October 25th. Our first program of works by Northwest artists illustrates the breadth of the documentary genre. Subjects covered include an account of forced busing in Seattle, a Japanese American woman whose high…

TEST What’s in a name? Our opening feature THE GRACE LEE PROJECTdocuments the highly entertaining journey of filmmaker Grace Lee as she scours the globe tracking down the many other Grace Lees in the world to find out what makes them (and herself)…

Congrats to those of you who made it to the film crawl and got a free ticket to our animation program. But if you didn’t make it, don’t fret — the CINEOKE experience is coming to NWAAFF for our special mid-festival party…