Category: Film
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 […]
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, […]
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.
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 […]
Vietnamese Film at the Hawaiʻi International Film Festival
In-person at Consolidated Kahala Theatre (Nov 6, 2022)
Screening Southeast Asia at the Hawai’i International Film Festival
Box Office opens October 15th for HIFF OHANA Members and October 18th for the General
Public.
Alumni Spotlight: Dr. Pollie Bith-Melander
New Documentary Film on the deportation of Southeast Asian Refugees
Ghosts and the Spirit World in SEA Films and Literature
Edited volume on horror cinema & novels on the supernatural.
HIFF Southeast Asia Showcase
Four films from Vietnam, Laos, and the Philippines.
Vietnam Film Institute Celebrates 40th Anniversary
Happy 40th Anniversary, VFI!
