The 29th San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival begins today, with an opening night soiree at the Asian Art Museum.
SFIAAFF is the largest and one of the most prestigious showcases for Asian and Asian American films in America, and annually presents over 100 works in the Bay Area. The festival also features Asian American music and digital/interactive media.
Of the many critically acclaimed films SFIAAFF is showcasing, several are South Korean films, including A Lover’s Fragments, Florence, and the hit vengeance film, The Man From Nowhere (Ajushi).
Also screening is Dance Town, the final installment of director Jeong Kyu-hwan’s internationally acclaimed Town triology. Described as a “dark political allegory,” the film follows a North Korean table tennis player who is forced to defect to South Korea after her husband is arrested for possessing South Korean pornography and foreign products.
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