Thursday, May 11
6:00pm – Doors
6:30pm – JOY RIDE: This is Asian homegirls on an international adventure discovering self-love no matter how messy and thirsty, delivering crazy bananas comedy catapulting us straight into the stratosphere as we become cry-laugh emojis in the theater together. Are you in here with us? We’re on this Joy Ride!
Friday, May 12
5:30pm – Doors
6:00pm – THE ACCIDENTAL GETAWAY DRIVER: A true story. Visceral, lyrical, stirring. Long, an elderly Vietnamese cab driver is taken hostage at gunpoint by three recently escaped Orange County convicts. He owns nothing but the audacity of this situation, finding a belonging (after a lifetime of not belonging anywhere) in the very intense present moment.
Saturday, May 13
11:30am – Doors
12:00pm – LIQUOR STORE DREAMS: A documentary where generational trauma is well stocked in the aisle between 40oz. and hot Cheetos. Take a tour of LA in the 90s with the lens of liquor store babies, So Yun and Danny, Korean Americans whose dreams were made possible by immigrant biz-owner parents during a contentious time in history.
2:30pm – Doors
3:00pm – AMERICAN BORN CHINESE: What’s a bigger flex? Growing up ABC, parkouring through YA trauma at school and immigrant gaps at home….OR… this yoked all-star cast (ahem Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan Charles Yu)? Calling all fams, and kids of every age- definitely come out for this one!
5:30pm – Doors
6:00pm – STARRING JERRY AS HIMSELF Jerry gathers the family for an important meeting. The family had no idea what was in store, and they braced themselves for the worst. He begins a fantastical tale about how he was recruited by the Chinese police to be an undercover agent in an international money laundering investigation.
8:30pm – Doors
9:00pm – JAMOJAYA: A rapper (Rich Brian) with a rising career hires a U.S manager and label, taking over from his father who has steered it to date.
Sunday, May 14, 2023
12:30pm – SHORTS OUT/HERE
3:00pm – Doors
3:30pm – RETROSPECTIVE: WISDOM GONE WILD: What happens when we don’t resist dementia, or challenge the person’s memory but to move with them into a world of their making and see what truths can unfold?
6:00pm – Doors
6:30pm – LAST SUMMER OF NATHAN LEE: With the knowledge of how long you have left to live; what would you do with your loved ones? Prepare to be moved by how Nathan and friends’ love for life and each other transcend tradition, culture, and jealousy.