Philadelphia Asian American Film Fest

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9 films in package
Adrift
An inexperienced astral projector seeks his grandmother’s wisdom after meeting an uncanny woman in a place transcending reality.
Awit Natin (Our Song)
When their father dies during their mother's hospitalization, a Filipino family goes to extreme and absurd lengths to hide the truth.
Cat's Tale
A 2nd generation Khmer-American femme documents her mother’s journey back to Cambodia for the first time in over 40 years. Through the form of both a letter and essay, the film translates the in-between and intergenerational memories of time, land, and body.
First Winter
Ángel is a newly arrived immigrant who is experiencing his first winter in Chicago. The film follows his realization of what it may mean to be away from home for a very long time.
Footprints in the Sand
A mixed-media animated documentary that invites four lymphoma cancer patients from South Korea to share their stories.
Long's Long Lost & Mini Mart
In the seedy back halls of a Little Saigon convenience store, a young customer seeking closure reanimates his dead father for one last conversation.
Oxplant
Haunted by loss and schizophrenia, a former bureaucrat seeks refuge on his family farm. What he sees is not the world as it is, but the unstable border between life and death.
Rooftop Lempicka
2002 Saigon, Vietnam, while her mother is expecting their second child, young Thi befriends club waitress Ngoc who has just moved into their family′s house as a tenant. As their friendship grows, she finds out that Ngoc is an undisclosed sex worker.
We're Okay
A slice of life comedy about 3 precocious kids left to their own devices in a typical immigrant American home.
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CONTENT WARNING: Some of the shorts in this program contain mature and/or disturbing themes, and are not appropriate for all ages.

In the seedy back halls of a Little Saigon convenience store, a customer seeking closure reanimates his dead father for one last conversation. When his expectations are upended, the no-nonsense clerk must deal with the fallout.


Director's Bio: Julian Doan is a Vietnamese-American writer/director whose creative pursuit is inspired by life's mundane and dark absurdities, especially amidst death and grief. His short film Raspberry premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival and was released on Showtime and Vimeo Staff Picks. In 2025 his latest short, Long's Long Lost & Mini Mart, premiered at the 2025 Tribeca Festival, as part of Indeed/Hillman Grad's "Rising Voices" Season 5 program.

  • Year
    2025
  • Runtime
    18 minutes
  • Language
    English, Vietnamese
  • Country
    United States
  • Director
    Julian Doan
  • Screenwriter
    Julian Doan
  • Producer
    Alex Nystrom, Jenni Trang Lê, Constanza Castro, Doménica Castro
  • Executive Producer
    Lena Waithe, Rishi Rajani, Travis Ing, Naomi Funabashi
  • Cast
    Hồng Đào, Jackie Tran, Hoài Tâm
  • Editor
    Lynn Hong
  • Production Design
    Mengqing Yuan
  • Composer
    René G. Boscio
  • Sound Design
    Kai Scheer
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