2020 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival

Across the Dinner Table

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8 films in package
FRONT OF THE HOUSE
When a young girl of a generationally owned fishball noodle stall gets a chance to change her life, she must first confront her strict grandmother.
MOTHER-IN-LAW
A mother drops by her daughter's apartment for a surprise visit and meets her daughter's "friend."
PAPAYA
A Southeast Asian American story, PAPAYA is spoken through the metaphor of the cultural recipe, papaya salad.
QUAN 13
QUAN 13 is about the Vietnamese diaspora in Paris told through the lens of food.
ROOTS AND WINGS: YANA GILBUENA
ROOTS AND WINGS highlights innovative, culture-bridging female chefs, their stories, cuisine, and heritage.
SOREJYA TAKA
In a time of personal crisis, a woman reaches out to her friends, but finds all the solace she needs within herself.
THE COIN
A young woman loses her coin jar on her journey to a new country, and ends up finding a coin in her own stomach.
YAI NIN
Ninlawan Pinyo is the matriarch of a Thai American family, who hustled for her fortune by founding a pork sausage factory in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
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Dumplings. Sausage. Ice cream. Food is a universal language shared amongst cultures and generations. Join us as we venture through these stories of community, heartbreak, nostalgia, and conflict between people – all with food on the table. Come hungry and leave with hearts full. — Kevin J. Nguyen


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Ninlawan Pinyo is the matriarch of a Thai American family, who hustled for her fortune by founding a pork sausage factory in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

  • Year
    2020
  • Director
    Champ Ensminger
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