Section

Pacific Showcase

Every year, the Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival has striven to expand our Pacific Showcase to support Pacific Islander stories and artists. This showcase is sponsored by our good friends, Pacific Islanders in Communications.

Feature Documentaries, Pacific Showcase

Cane Fire

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Film

Cane Fire

Directed by Anthony Banua-Simon

Cane Fire examines the past and present of the Hawaiian island of Kauaʻi, interweaving four generations of family…

Feature Narratives, Pacific Showcase

I Was A Simple Man

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Film

I Was A Simple Man

Directed by Christopher Makoto Yogi

A family in Hawai'i faces the imminent death of their eldest as the ghosts of the past haunt…

Feature Narratives, Pacific Showcase

LOIMATA, The Sweetest Tears

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Film

LOIMATA, The Sweetest Tears

Directed by Anna Marbrook

CW: sexual abuse, death Samoan Lilo Ema Siope is six feet tall, has the strength of three men,...

Short Film Programs, Pacific Showcase

Vā: The Space Between Us

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Program

Vā: The Space Between Us

“Vā is the space between, the betweenness, not empty space, not space that separates but space that relates,...

Special Presentations, Feature Narratives, Pacific Showcase

Waikiki

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Film

Waikiki

Directed by Christopher Kahunahana

In this cinematic allegory of love and loss, a hula dancer fights for survival and her sanity in…