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APISA Film Festival Week

From March 25, 2019 to March 28, 2019

Here are descriptions for each film:

Seeking Asian Female (2012)
A documentary about a 60-year old American man obsessed with marrying Asian women. Two strangers — an elderly American man and a young Chinese woman — pursue a marriage brokered by the internet, but they get more than they bargained for when she moves across the Pacific to start a new life with him in America, in this intimate and quirky, personal documentary about modern love.

Saving Mes Aynak (2014)
A film about a race against time to save a 5,000-year-old archaeological site in Afghanistan threatened by a Chinese state-owned copper mine.

Pop Aye (2017)
A film about a man and his elephant travelling across Thailand. On a chance encounter, a disenchanted architect bumps into his long-lost elephant on the streets of Bangkok. Excited, he takes his elephant on a journey across Thailand, in search of the farm where they grew up together.

Sweet Bean (2015)
A Japanese drama film that centers around Sentaro, a middle-aged man who runs a small dorayaki shop in the outskirts of Tokyo. The manager of a pancake stall finds himself confronted with an odd but sympathetic elderly woman looking for work. A taste of her homemade red bean paste convinces him to hire her, which starts a relationship that is about much more than just street food.
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