Category: Film

September 16, 2024

GETSEA and CSEAS Present: Breaking the Cycle – A Simulcast Film Screening and Discussion

October 1, 2024 from 12:00 PM- HST Moore Hall 319, Tokioka Room Join us on October 1st, 2024, at 12:00 PM (HST) in Moore Hall 319, Tokioka Room for a special simulcast screening of Breaking the Cycle, a powerful documentary capturing Thailand’s 2019 elections, marking the end of five years of military rule. The film […]

September 9, 2024

Sustainable futures: ecologies, kinships, and communities in Southeast Asian Cinemas

Deadline: December 1, 2024.Symposium date: 14 – 16 August 2025Symposium venue: Chiang Mai University The 12th Biennial Association for Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference will take place at Chiang Mai University, on 14 – 16 August 2025. The focus of the conference is Sustainable Futures: ecologies, kinships and communities in Southeast Asian Cinemas. This theme will be […]

April 2, 2024

Simulcast: A Showcase of Bophana Center Indigenous Filmmakers

Date and Time: April 9, 2024 from from 12:00 pm HST In conjunction with the International Decade of Indigenous Languages, GETSEA and the Bophana Center present four short films by Indigenous Cambodian filmmakers on the themes of “Healing, Memory & Care.” Dull Trail (2020) – Directed by KHON Raksa, PEOU Mono & CHOEY Rickydavid, Bunong […]

February 5, 2024

Book Talk: Silver Screens and Golden Dreams: A Social History of Burmese Cinema

The world tends to see Myanmar (Burma) as an ancient, idyllic land of emerald-green rice paddies dotted with golden pagodas, yet sadly tarnished by a contemporary reality of grinding poverty, a decades-long civil war, and the most enduring military dictatorship in modern history. Burmese society is frequently stereotyped as isolated, hidebound to Buddhist cultural foundations, […]

October 31, 2023

Daze of Justice

Daze of Justice is the intimate story of trailblazing Cambodian American women who break decades of silence, abandoning the security of their American homes on a journey back to resurrect the memory of their loved ones before the UN Special Tribunal prosecuting the Khmer Rouge.

October 3, 2023

Documentary Screening: Above and Below the Ground

Above and Below the Ground depicts the Indigenous women activists and punk rock pastors leading Myanmar’s first country-wide environmental movement. When the Myanmar army and a Chinese corporate giant force Indigenous Kachin people off their ancestral land to build the massive Myitsone Dam, grandmother Lu Ra stands her ground. We see her struggle to save […]

October 28, 2022

Vietnamese Film at the Hawaiʻi International Film Festival

Viet Nam Films

In-person at Consolidated Kahala Theatre (Nov 6, 2022)

October 16, 2021