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2026 AAIFF: CUNY Shorts Showcase

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Films in this year’s CUNY Shorts Showcase, part of the 49th Asian American International Film Festival deal with topics/genres including: an intimate connection of hope and solidarity between a Filipino steward and a Black welder in 1940s Brooklyn, a Sikh MMA fighter navigating the balance between faith and the brutal world of combat sports, a golden but challenged friendship between a Jewish girl and a Muslim girl in Jerusalem, and an immigrant woman examining her past, identity, and regrets in the wake of her American ex-boyfriend’s death.

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2025 AAIFF: CUNY Shorts Showcase

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Films in this year’s CUNY Shorts Showcase, part of the 48th Asian American International Film Festival deal with topics/genres including: how healthcare workers navigate life and death, the intimate experiences of living in New York City basements, a Thai immigrant’s journey through grief and artistic renewal, a Chinese-Canadian filmmaker’s reflections on identity and belonging, the intriguing idea of subconsciously inviting bad luck, and the demanding yet transformative lives of student-parents.

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2024 AAIFF: CUNY Shorts Showcase

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Films in this year’s CUNY Shorts Showcase, part of the 47th Asian American International Film Festival deal with topics/genres including: the Bengali dessert chomchom; a husband’s selfishness and regret; the work of textile artist and art historian Dr. Nazanin Hedeyat Munroe; isolation during Covid-19; and the Bangladesh Liberation War.

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Waiting for Superman – Film Screening

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From the Academy Award-winning Director of An Inconvenient Truth comes the groundbreaking feature film that provides an engaging and inspiring look at public education in the United States. Waiting For “Superman” has helped launch a movement to achieve a real and lasting change through the compelling stories of five unforgettable students such as Emily, a … Read more

Screening & Discussion with Transgender Activist Pauline Park

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“Envisioning Justice: The Journey of a Transgendered Woman” tells the story of Pauline Park, tracing her life from her birth in Korea and her adoption by European American parents. In the summer of 2006, Park and filmmaker Larry Tung went back to the south side of Milwaukee to visit the house where she was raised, the first time that she had been inside her childhood home since 1981; they also visited the elementary school, junior high and high school that she attended in her youth.

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