“ephemeral.” is cinéma vérité reflecting on the experience that many refugees and undocumented immigrants go through because of war and bloodshed.

documentary, traditional cultureDC APA Film FestivalApril 4, 20202020, batch1

Ghost Mountain

Bunseng Taing, a Cambodian refugee in 1980 that survived the Killing Fields and other horrors, was among the 45,000 escapees that fled to what they thought was Thailand, only to be forced back over the landmine infested Cambodian border.

documentary, traditional cultureDC APA Film FestivalMarch 30, 20202020, batch1

Hiko in Tonga: A Culture Almost Lost

A multi-generational film of a unique, vanishing culture of Polynesian women jugglers in The Kingdom of Tonga.

documentary, traditional cultureDC APA Film FestivalMarch 29, 20202020, batch1

MIRROR

A Korean girl with a severely scarred face goes to a black market hospital in Queens for plastic surgery.

drama, traditional cultureDC APA Film FestivalMarch 25, 20202020, batch1

QUẬN 13

Quận 13 is home to the Parisian Asian Quarters, Gray's journey takes her all over Paris and into the kitchens of the Vietnamese keeping their cultural identity alive through food.

documentary, traditional cultureDC APA Film FestivalMarch 18, 20202020, batch2

Ramadan

Three Cham American high school students chronicle their experiences during Ramadan, the Muslim Holy Month.

documentary, traditional cultureDC APA Film FestivalMarch 16, 20202020, batch2

SOMA

Chef Mutsuko Soma created the best soba noodles from scratch with buckwheat flour and water.

documentary, traditional cultureDC APA Film FestivalMarch 15, 20202020, batch2

YAI NIN

Ninlawan Pinyo is the matriarch of a Thai American family, who hustled for her fortune by founding a naem (pork sausage) factory in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

documentary, traditional cultureDC APA Film FestivalMarch 6, 20202020, batch2

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