Latest Past Events
Hamaguchi in Residence: Public Screening of “Storytellers”
Princeton Garden Theatre 160 Nassau Street, PrincetonDirected by Hamaguchi Ryusuke and Sakai Ko 120 mins The third and final installment of Hamaguchi and Ko’s groundbreaking series documenting the aftermath of the 2011 triple disaster in the northern Tohoku region. Following The Sound of the Waves (2012) and Voices from the Waves (2013), the film carries on a deep and patient excavation […]
Asian American Films Seminar: The Celine Archive (Dir. Celine Parreñas Shimizu, 2020)
Zoom PrincetonThe Celine Archive is a documentary about a woman named Celine Navarro, an immigrant from the Philippines and the source of a ghost story. Navarro was buried alive in California in 1932. When news broke about this, it was said that the act was committed by her own community and her death quickly grew into […]
Asian American Films Seminar: Lingua Franca (Dir. Isabel Sandoval, 2019)
Zoom PrincetonWritten, directed by, and starring Isabel Sandoval as Olivia, Lingua Franca focuses on the anxieties of living as an undocumented immigrant in America while also telling a trans love story. Olivia, a trans Filipino woman who lives in fear of deportation by ICE, is trying to secure a green card through marriage, but her life […]