Alternate Realities: Science Fiction from Across Asia

Panel Discussion: Asian Futurisms

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Panel Discussion: Asian Futurisms 

Sunday, December 6, 2 pm  

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A panel of filmmakers who are featured in our film series Alternate Realities: Science Fiction from Across Asia join film scholar Samirah Alk-Kassim to talk about the exciting and thought-provoking new currents in independent science fiction filmmaking, from Southeast Asia to the Arab World. Panelists will include Sophia Al-Maria, director of The Future was Desert Parts 1 & 2; Larissa Sansour, director of In the Future They Ate from the Finest Porcelain and In Vitro; Shengze Zhu, director of Present.Perfect, and Trương Minh Quý, director of


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