Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
The CUNY AAFF helps to promote the artistic visual talents and stimulate communication among CUNY students who are separated by the different campuses, and serve as a central location to display their creative works. Past participants have also had their films screened at the Asian American International Film Festival.
This co-sponsored screening of the documentary CHOSEN is part of the 17th Annual Korean American Film Festival New York (KAFFNY), running from November 8 to 13, 2023 in-person and online. Preceding CHOSEN will be the international premier of the short film THE TEMPLE OF NON-DUALITY.
Films in this year’s CUNY Shorts Showcase, part of the 46th Asian American International Film Festival deal with topics/genres including: the Filipino American diaspora in New York City, social roles of women during 1920s Japan, an interview with musician Takuya Nakamura, gambling addiction, and the fetishization of Japanese women.
The CUNY AAFF helps to promote the artistic visual talents and stimulate communication among CUNY students who are separated by the different campuses, and serve as a central location to display their creative works. Past participants have also had their films screened at the Asian American International Film Festival.
Observations of contemporary life that make monkeys of us: this existential disbelief thrums through speculative stories and essays in Xu Xi’s latest collection, Monkey in Residence & Other Speculations.
Films in this year’s CUNY Shorts Showcase, part of the 45th Asian American International Film Festival, deal with topics/genres including anti-Asian hate and its mental toll, coping with death, working immigrant parents and their children, creating a space for Muslim students, and the fight for Asian American Studies.