The Boston Asian
American Film Festival

Join us for the 12th annual Boston Asian American Film Festival, now completely virtual! Tune in to BAAFF to enjoy a wide range of over 50 short films, feature films, documentaries, and panels while supporting your local Asian American Community!
 

Feature Films    Shorts Program

BAAFF'S MISSION

The Boston Asian American Film Festival (BAAFF), New England's Largest Asian American Film Festival, empowers Asian Americans through film by showcasing Asian American experiences and serving as a resource to filmmakers and the Greater Boston Community. BAAFF is a co-production of the Asian American Resource Workshop and ArtsEmerson.

SHORTS PROGRAM SCHEDULE

Shorts: Alternative Realities

OCT 22 @ 12:00AM ET – NOV 01 @ 10:00PM ET | $10

113 mins | Filmmaker Q&A to follow

Filmmakers show us their vision of what our malleable realities can become and what possibilities we may evoke. Between shorts about love hypnosis, miscarriage signs, and robot chefs, Alternative Realities sets no barriers for what our world could look like.

Intelligentia | Director: Ken Shinozaki

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Tina | Director: Gayatri Bahl

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Kumquat | Director: Meeni Hardart

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The Silent Fall | Director: Helen Jung

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Searching for the None | Director: Jean Louis Droulers

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In Sync | Director: Eddie Shieh

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Make a Wish | Director: Dinh Thai

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Brunch Wars | Director: Kamran Khan

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The Chef | Director: Hao Zheng

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Pussy Talk | Director: Kim Tran

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Becoming Eddie | Director: Lilan Bowden

 

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Shorts: Queer & Here

OCT 22 @ 12:00AM ET – NOV 01 @ 10:00PM ET  | $10 

94 mins | Filmmaker Q&A to follow

Queer & Here illustrates the multitude and depth of queer experiences and lives. Filmmakers bring us into queer individual’s stories at every stage and turn - from NYC nightclubs, to writing lessons in rural India and to Samoan cookouts - where being queer is just one part of our lives.

The Rogers | Director: Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson

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About a Short Film | Director: Kevin Yee

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U for Usha | Director: Rohan Parashuram Kanawade

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Soba-chan’s Morning  | Director: Vlasov Sergey

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Safe Among Stars | Director: Jess Snow

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Gentleman Spa  | Director: Jay Lin

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Dancing On My Own  | Director: Alexandra N Cuerdo

 

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Shorts: Beneath the Surface

OCT 22 @ 12:00AM ET – NOV 01 @ 10:00PM ET | $10 

110 mins | Filmmaker Q&A to follow

Challenge your first perceptions and sink into the underlying truths and pasts. From recycling’s global underbelly to a punk café in J-Town LA, Beneath the Surface digs deeper into things that may not be all they seem.

Stranger  | Director: Chen Yang

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Detourning Asia/America | Director: Valerie Soe

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Passage  | Director: Asavari Kumar

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Providence  | Director: Daniel Lee

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Deeper I Go  | Director: Michael P. Vidler

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Dirty Business | Director: Yutao Chen

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Growing Pains  | Director: LIN, Po-Yu

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The Hole  | Director: Will Kim

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Atomic Cafe  | Director: Akira Boch, Tadashi Nakamura

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Shorts: Ties that Bind

OCT 22 @ 12:00AM ET – NOV 01 @ 10:00PM ET | $10 

113 mins | Filmmaker Q&A to follow

Through friends, family, and community, we are all bound together in social fabrics spanning vibrant and complicated relationships. Ties that Bind traverses continents, languages, and cultures to explore the connections in between us all.

YAI NIN  | Director: Champ Ensminger

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Chicken | Director: Emma Li

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Mo'o!  | Director: Anela Ling

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Felt Love  | Director: Angeline Vu, Arlene Bongco

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Keep in Touch | Director: Memie Osuga

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WAVES | Director: Jane Hae Kim

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Awaken-Film  | Director: Leena Pendharkar

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Tri and Khanh  | Director: Daphne Xu

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Ahma & Alan  | Director: James Y. Shih

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Fugetsu-Do  | Director: Kaia Rose

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Shorts: Finding Your Way

OCT 22 @ 12:00AM ET – NOV 01 @ 10:00PM ET | $10 

108 mins | Filmmaker Q&A to follow

Through navigating difficult situations, facing a hostile outside world, or reflecting on previous experiences, we deepen our understanding about ourselves. Finding Your Way showcases these experiences and how they become a catalyst for personal metamorphosis.

Black Ghost Son  | Director: Christopher Low

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Representation | Director: Jj Querubin

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Papaya  | Director: Kayleb Lee

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The Outcome  | Director: Lisa Lam

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Curtain Call  | Director: Angel Yau

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Big Happiness | Director: Da Hee Kim

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Michelle | Director: Kenya Gillespie

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Yuan Yuan and the Hollow Monster  | Director: Catherine Chen

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Extra Credit  | Director: Angel Yau

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Si (only available through Oct. 25)  | Director: Thomas Percy Kim

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But You're Not Black  | Director: Danielle Ayow

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