Asian American Movies

A fractured family must navigate through loss together as traditional values chain down the younger generation in this story about love and...

Since the fall of Saigon in 1975, Vietnamese refugees have built the largest Vietnamese community outside of Vietnam, in Orange County, California....

After a pineapple shows up at her front door, Lia returns to her childhood home in search of her father, who hasn’t been seen in months.

As small ethnic-owned businesses in East Anaheim Plaza are threatened by plans of redevelopment, the collective Long Beach community has mobilized to...

A film about a boy's turbulent time in high school.

The filmmaker's father and uncle, Norm and Stan, are third generation Japanese Americans. They are "all American" guys who love bowling, cards and...

An Indonesian boy and his mother bring Chinese takeout to a church potluck and pretend it’s a traditional family dish. The boy's quiet...

A short film following a day in the life of an Asian American woman as she attempts to get by during the height of the pandemic while beginning to...

A clumsy and rather unskilled, but good-hearted son of two Asian restaurant owners, concocts a new way to help the family business.

In "Caregiving: The Circle of Love," three caregivers discuss about the challenges of caregiving and how their Chinese American traditions play a...

A revenge-driven high school senior gathers a group of four other women, including a permanently limped former athlete, to plot the murder of their...

A political secretary visits their cousin in hopes to understand why certain policies threaten that family member's way of life.

An intimate visual poem explores the delicate balance between change and stillness, inspired by Ethan TK Trinh’s 2025 poetry collection,...

The different ways a single Vietnamese mother loved her three daughters comes to fruition when Junie, the middle child, reunites with her sisters in...

The 50+ time award-winning short film, MONDAY, follows a day in the life of a young hustler who ‘code-switches’ through disparate cliques...

In 1916, twenty-year-old Marion Wong wrote and directed The Curse of Quon Gwon, the earliest example of an Asian American film. What initially...

As L.A.'s punk rock scene exploded in the late 1970s, an unlikely family-owned restaurant in Little Tokyo became one of its most popular hang-outs.

Three Asian Americans tell their stories of immigration, growing up, assimilation, and finding themselves in this heartfelt stand-up comedy special.

A woman introduces her Chinese dad to her American Jewish boyfriend and manipulates their language barrier to keep everyone happy.

A homeless man with schizophrenia slowly embraces antipsychotic medication under Hawaii's only willing psychiatrist and a court mandate, while a man...