2020 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival

Dead To Me

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9 films in package
BENEVOLENT BA
A devout woman’s lust for virtue thrusts her family into a sacrificial slaughter of biblical proportions.
BLOOD HANA
Lily, an introverted teen, develops a crush on her classmate, Alex. Later she falls ill from a disease called Hanahaki, formed out of unrequited love.
CLOSE TO YOU
A young Asian American struggles to balance their exploration of gender identity with the expectations of their immigrant mother.
HELLO AHMA
Unable to return home to attend Grandma’s funeral, a young Singaporean girl new to America searches for Grandma’s reincarnation in a pet store turtle.
JESA
Using stop motion animation, the filmmaker interviews and questions her parents about jesa, a ritual tradition of Korea.
MAY 35
A haunting commemoration of the Tiananmen Square uprising made from fragments of censored archival imagery transferred onto film using razor blades and scotch tape.
NO CRYING AT THE DINNER TABLE
The filmmaker interviews her family to craft a portrait of love, grief, and intergenerational trauma.
STILL HERE
In Kaohsiung, Taiwan, a few residents refuse to leave their beloved and now-abandoned village.
THE FILIAL DAUGHTER
A mixed-media documentary short covering the story of professional funeral mourners in Taiwan known as "filial daughters."
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This program is only available to viewers in Southern California (excluding San Diego County) from October 1, 2020 at 12pm PT to October 31, 2020 at 11:59pm PT.


From professional mourners to a withering town, this program invites you to embrace death with open arms. What are the rituals with which we honor our dead, mourn the movements of the past, and heal collectively? Let us find out in a line-up that merges fiction and non-fiction. — Udval Altangerel


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Using stop motion animation, the filmmaker interviews and questions her parents about jesa, a ritual tradition of Korea.

  • Year
    2019
  • Director
    Kyungwon Song
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