Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival

PAAFF Film Club – Leonor Will Never Die

Online/Virtual

Join us for our first Film Club meeting of 2023! We’ll be starting out with a discussion on Martika Ramirez Escobar’s debut feature Leonor Will Never Die. Once again, we […]

PAAFF Film Club – Dersu Uzala

Online/Virtual

For April’s Film Club we will be looking at one of Akira Kurosawa’s lesser known films, Dersu Uzala. This Soviet-Japanese co-production, and Kurosawa’s only non-Japanese-language film, tells a moving story […]

PAAFF Film Club – The Terrorizers

Online/Virtual

May’s Film Club will be a discussion on Edward Yang’s The Terrorizers. Considered a pivotal film in the era of New Taiwanese Cinema, The Terrorizers presents a startling look into […]

PAAFF Film Club – Lucky Grandma

Online/Virtual

June’s meeting will be focused on a film from PAAFF’s own history: Sasie Sealy’s Lucky Grandma. Tsai Chin stars as the titular character–a chain-smoking, gambling grandma in New York City’s […]

PAAFF Preview Party 2023

The Rail Park North & Noble Streets, Philadelphia, PA

Do you want to be one of the first people to catch a sneak peek of our 2023 Film Festival? Then join us on Thursday October 5th (rain date Oct […]