Asian American Movies

On a road trip with her younger sister, Charlie struggles to hide a secret addiction.

After awkwardly coming out to her conservative parents, an Asian-American teenage girl takes off on a road trip to meet her online crush with the...

On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, Shylo Song must decide whether she, her younger sister, and their grandmother should leave their childhood home...

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

The ennui of a filmmaker, trapped between aspiration and reality, frames Lana Jing’s quirky, sarcastic, and cinematic-joke filled quarter-life...

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

After being sexually assaulted by a well-respected professor, a reclusive Chinese American girl who grew up in an abusive family struggles to find...

Filmmaker Stephanie Wang-Breal sets out to cross the generational divide, confronting long-simmering tensions with her Chinese immigrant mother by...

The short film tells a slice-of-life story set in a family-run Chinese bakery, exploring parenting philosophies and the pressures faced by the...

Leaving internment camps to defend their country in Europe, Japanese-American Nisei soldiers of WWII became the most decorated unit in American...

A black sheep attempts to eulogize her mother with a story about pigeons.

Fumiko Hayashida: The Woman Behind the Symbol is both a historical portrait of Fumiko, her family and the Bainbridge Island Japanese American...

When a journalist is assigned to profile a businessman, she discovers that he has a story that is related to her haunted past.

Short documentary on the screen depiction and public reception of fictional Chinese-American detective character Charlie Chan, as well as cultural...

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 young David Gan joins the WWII effort, eager to serve his country. Feelings of exclusion as a Chinese-American disappear in the Army. After...

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...

Flashing lights explode across an apartment as images of a naked woman in bed flicker in and out. Light paintings and projections illuminate a space...

A light-hearted yet deeply moving portrait of the Asian- and Jewish-American women who play this centuries-old Chinese game, shedding light on the...