"The New Mexico Asian American Film Festival will showcase a wide variety of short films made by Asian/Asian American filmmakers. This event lifts up Asian American voices and empowers emerging artists to share their experiences, challenge perspectives, and celebrate their heritage and culture.

Formally under the Asian Business Collaborative as the New Mexico Asian Film Festival. We are very grateful that ABC got us up and running!" - Festival Director, Lava G. Khonsuwon

Possible Prizes t.b.a.

BONUS - there will be a short talk/Q&A with the filmmakers after each block of shorts!

To be screened - 

BLOCK 1:  4:30 - 5:45pm

Legend of Fry-Roti: Rise of the Dough -  A Navajo/Bengali niece kneads to find dough-mestic harmony when her aunties burst into a frybread vs. roti showdown, forcing her to cook up her own recipe for belonging from all the ingredients of her culture.  [8.5m]

Somewhere Here and There - The filmmaker's father, a Taiwanese immigrant, reflects on how his journey to the United States has shaped his life, what could have been, and where he is now. [6.5m]

A LETTER TO MOM - Hting, a Burmese immigrant, full-time sushi chef, and film student, shares a letter to his mom in which he describes the challenges, sacrifices, and experiences that shaped his education — including moving away from home and adapting to new environments — as he navigated the journey from a small village in Burma to becoming a film student in Philadelphia. [Dir. Hting Ra - Burmese - 11.5m]

CHURCH GIRL - Olivia, a Filipino lesbian, pretends to be Christian to impress her non-binary crush, finding herself at Bushwick’s oldest queer Bible study.  [10.5m]

Hafu - description t.b.a. [15.5]

Eighty Years Young - In Eighty Years at Young's, New Jersey filmmaker and high school senior Bryan Zhao explores the impact of Chinese Grocers in the Mississippi Delta during the Jim Crow Era. Centered on an 80-year old grocery store in Earle, Arkansas, the film weaves together past and present via oral histories, community interviews, and archival photographs to detail the legacy of the region's few remaining Chinese grocers.  [10.5m]

Broken Rice - description t.b.a. [22.5m]

BLOCK 2:  6:00 - 7:10pm

More Than Drums - The members of Kishin Daiko reflect on how taiko (Japanese Drumming) shapes their lives, community, and their sense of belonging.  [5.5m]

Half - description t.b.a. [9.5m]

The Four Silences - description t.b.a. [5.5m]

Miso Soup - College student Reiko enrolls in a Japanese-language class to learn her heritage language. However, she begins to fall behind and feels like she is not Japanese enough. In turn, Reiko has to navigate her own feelings about having a dual identity. [9.5m]

The Sharp Point of Time - An immigrant Filipina mother who had dreams of being a filmmaker just wants her America-born son to not smoke weed, wash the dishes right and be more like his brother.   [14.5m]

Threading the American Dream -description t.b.a.  [25m]

BLOCK 3:  7:25 - 8:25pm

Napigsa ti Angin / The Wind is Strong - Family friendly film that teaches us about some of the Filipino history in New Mexico and helped contribute to the New Mexico Agriculture industry.  [5m]

Our Last Time - After a college student returns to China and his grandparents, he begins exploring the idea of death in an introspective journey to understand what it means to exist.  [9m]

Tempering Color - The Meditations of an Oil Painter - The Four Silences - description t.b.a. [12m]

Sundown - description t.b.a.  [13m]

Love Lao Der - description t.b.a. [12m]