PAAFF Film Club – Saving Face
Online/VirtualSpring is in the air! And what better way to celebrate than with a romantic comedy? For the May meeting of PAAFF Film Club, we’ll be talking about writer-director Alice …
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PAAFF Film Club – The Namesake
Online/VirtualAfter moving from Calcutta to New York, members of the Ganguli family maintain a delicate balancing act between honoring the traditions of their native India and blending into American culture. …
PAAFF Film Club – Boy
Online/VirtualBefore Jo Jo Rabbit and the upcoming Thor: Love and Thunder, Taika Waititi wrote and directed Boy, the focus of our July PAAFF Film Club meeting. Part The 400 Blows, …
PAAFF Film Club – A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Online/VirtualNext month will be our last Film Club meeting of the year! We’ll be closing out our season with A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, Ana Lily Amirpour's award-winning …
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PAAFF Trivia Night 2021
Queen & Rook Game Cafe 607 S. 2nd Street, Philadphia, PA, United StatesSupport PAAFF this year by competing in our PAAFF 2021 Trivia Night Fundraiser at Queen & Rook Game Café on Friday, September 24 at 7:30 PM!
$10
PAAFF Preview Party 2021
The Rail Park North & Noble Streets, Philadelphia, PACurious to know what's in our festival program this year? Join us at The Rail Park! PAAFF’s Annual Preview Party will be held outdoors at The Rail Park on 10/7 …
PAAFF 2021 – Opening Night Film: Americanish
Asian Arts Initiative 1219 Vine St, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesPAAFF 2021 kicks off with a limited-capacity in-person screening of our Opening Night film Americanish ! In Jackson Heights, Queens, sisters Maryam and Sam and their newly-immigrated cousin Ameera navigate …
$10 – $15
PAAFF 2021 – Centerpiece Documentary Q&A: Wuhan Wuhan
Online/VirtualCenterpiece Documentary: Wuhan Wuhan Unfolding at the height of the pandemic, Wuhan Wuhan offers unprecedented access into the peak of the pandemic lockdown and focuses on the human side of …
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PAAFF 2021 – Have You Heard the Moves – Live Performance
Asian Arts Initiative 1219 Vine St, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesPhiladelphia Asian Performing Artists (PAPA) is putting on dancing shoes for our latest showcase! These past 20 months have been wild and heavy - I mean, how is it already …
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PAAFF 2021 – Half of Half Magic – Live Performance
Asian Arts Initiative 1219 Vine St, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesPAAFF 2021: PAPA Mini-Resident Joseph Ahmed uses physical theater, storytelling, and circus techniques to explore the childhood narratives and social structures that led him to self-identify as white for most …
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PAAFF 2021 – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Memories – Live Performance
Asian Arts Initiative 1219 Vine St, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesCome join us in-person for an interactive screening of Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. As a part of PAPA’s mini-residency, Chantal Vorobei Thieves’ ongoing project, Memory, Vein: The Collected …
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PAAFF 2021 – Asian American Beats To Jam To – Live Concert
Asian Arts Initiative 1219 Vine St, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesPAAFF’s Asian Music Showcase is back and in-person at Asian American Arts Initiative! This year’s showcase features an entirely local artist lineup and a variety of music genres: Filipino singer-songwriter …
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$20
PAAFF 2021 – Centerpiece Narrative Q&A: Waikiki
Online/VirtualCenter Narrative: Waikiki In this cinematic allegory of love and loss, a hula dancer fights for survival and her sanity in the shadows of Waikiki. This feature-length narrative offers an …
PAAFF 2021 – Closing Night Film: A Sexplanation
Asian Arts Initiative 1219 Vine St, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesPAAFF 2021 comes to an end with a limited-capacity in-person screening of our Closing Night film A Sexplanation ! Like with many American youth in the 90s, Alex was taught …
$10 – $15
The Fabulous Filipino Tour: Film Screening with Dante Basco and Family
Asian Arts Initiative 1219 Vine St, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesPAAFF invites you to a celebration of love, culture, and family with an exclusive community screening of The Fabulous Filipino Brothers! Dante Basco and Darion Basco will be in attendance …
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$25 – $40
PAAFF Film Club – Shirkers
Online/VirtualJoin us for our first Film Club meeting of 2022! We’ll be starting out with a discussion on Sandi Tan’s 2018 documentary Shirkers. A recent revelation in the genre of movies about movies, Shirkers tells the decades-spanning story of a group of friends attempting to make an independent feature with help from a mysterious stranger. …
Inventing Ourselves: Women’s Stories of Self-Discovery
Càphê Roasters 3400 J Street, G1, Philadelphia, PAA film screening presented by Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival and Philly Solidarity in celebration of Women's History Month Due to COVID-19, only water is allowed during the event. Food …
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$25 – $50
PAAFF Film Club – Devdas
Online/VirtualFor April’s Film Club we will be traveling back in time to 1935 and discussing a classic of Indian cinema: Pramathesh Barua’s Devdas. One of several adaptations of Sarat Chatterjee’s novel, originally published in 1917, Devdas tells the story of two lovers kept apart by class. Considered highly influential in its time, it is particularly …
PAAFF Film Club – Vai
Online/VirtualA collaboration between directors Becs Aharanga, Amberley Jo Aumua, Matasila Freshwater, Dianna Fuemana, and Miria George, Vai is a portmanteau feature made by women about one woman seen through different but united cultural lenses, and filmed on seven Pacific Islands. Join us for May’s PAAFF Film Club as we talk about it! Our May Film …
PAAFF Film Club – Spa Night
Online/VirtualJune means Pride! Andrew Ahn’s 2016 feature Spa Night explores the intersection of LA’s Korean-American and LGBTQ communities, through the eyes of one young man who straddles both worlds. Join us as we discuss the film’s place in both Asian American and queer cinema, and much more! Our June PAAFF Film Club meeting is scheduled …