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Filmography
32 films


Never Tonight
2026 · 13m
Two Korean-American brothers are trapped in a karaoke purgatory forced to out-confess their sins against each other for the last spot in heaven.


Hope
2026 · 2h 37m · KR
In the remote South Korean village of Hope Harbor, police chief Bum-seok and officer Sung-ae are called to investigate a mysterious creature wreaking havoc on the community. But all is not as it seems, and perceptions can be misleading. What begins as ignorance plants the seed of disaster, escalating through human conflict into a tragedy of cosmic proportions.


Rental Family
2025 · 1h 50m · US
An American actor in Tokyo struggles to find purpose until he lands an unusual gig: working for a Japanese 'rental family' agency, playing stand-in roles for strangers. As he immerses himself in his clients' worlds, he begins to form genuine bonds that blur the lines between performance and reality.


Ainu Puri
2024 · 1h 26m · JP
Shigeki, one of the Ainu people of northern Japan, follows the traditions of his ancestors and teaches his son Motoki about their heritage. But how can old customs be revived after centuries of suppression?


Between Goodbyes
2024 · 1h 36m · KR
When a queer Korean adoptee visits her original mother in Seoul, long-held regrets and cultural misunderstandings come to the surface alongside tenderness, humor, and tenacity.


Smoking Tigers
2024 · 1h 31m · US
Set in early-2000s SoCal, Smoking Tigers follows a Korean American girl as she navigates derision and growing tensions while balancing the duality of her low-income family and wealthy, elite high school environment.


Sardinia
2024 · 19m
A serious man tries to avoid catching a deadly laughing plague in a growingly polarized and dystopian society.


They Call Me Suki
2023 · 4m
Suki Terada Ports is an unstoppable Japanese American NYC elder who has been a tireless activist for the AAPI Community for decades. She has fought for Civil Rights in the 1960s, school integration, prison reform, female healthcare equality, LGBTQ+ rights, HIV/AIDS prevention and support, before the AAPI community would even recognize it. In this film, we follow Suki as she goes from her neighborhood in Harlem where she’s lived for over 87 years to a lunch at her friend’s apartment in downtown. A conversation of action, identity, and belonging emerges between three generations of AAPI activists and storytellers.


Mustache
2023 · 1h 23m · UK
In the late 90s, 13-year-old Ilyas is uprooted from his private school and thrust into public school. Battling deep insecurities over his prepubescent mustache, he hatches a wild plan to get back to his old life and find himself.


I Was a Simple Man
2021 · 1h 40m · US
A ghost story set in the pastoral countryside of the north shore of O‘ahu telling the story of an elderly man facing the end of his life, visited by the ghosts of his past.


A Woman's Work: The NFL's Cheerleader Problem
2019 · 1h 20m · US
Three brave cheerleaders take on the NFL, battling the massive, male-dominated sports league for recognition — and a raise.


Banana Season
2018 · 1h 44m
Two ordinary souls stand at a pivotal point in time in their lives when most people flower or fade. Peter is a little person who aspires to fly, while Sun is a fighter with a long losing streak. Each discovers how to believe in one's self.


Purdah
2018 · 1h 11m
The inspiring story of a young Indian Muslim woman who trades her burka for dreams of playing on the Mumbai Senior Women's Cricket Team and how the harsh realities for women in her country creates an unexpected outcome for her own family, ultimately shattering and fueling aspirations.


Occasionally, I Saw Glimpses of Hawai'i
2016 · 15m · US
An audio-visual collage looking at 100 years of Hollywood representation of Hawai'i.


Girl Flu.
2016 · 1h 33m · US
Bird, a smart level-headed tween, and her immature stoner mom gracelessly navigate the arrival of Bird's first period, which she gets on the last day of school… in front of the entire class.


Snowpiercer
2013 · 2h 7m · KR
In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer; a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.