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The 48th edition of the Asian American International Film Festival (Aaiff), presented by Asian CineVision (Acv), will run from July 31 to August 10, 2025, with screenings, panels, and community events held across New York City and online.

Aaiff is the nation’s first and longest-running film festival dedicated to works by and about Asians and Asian Americans. Since 1978, the festival has been a platform for diaspora storytelling, identity exploration, and bold artistic experimentation, building a legacy that continues to thrive across generations.

For its 48th edition, Aaiff will honor the beauty of repair and transformation — examine how personal and collective fractures can be reassembled into something stronger and more radiant than before. Drawing inspiration from Kintsugi — the Japanese art of mending broken ceramics with gold, this year’s theme asks how storytelling, dreaming, and creation can guide the community through rupture into renewal. It’s a celebration of resilience, imagination, and the...

We are excited to present the important and robust 2025 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival slate of films. The line up includes themes of resilience, community, identity and family.

The opening night film of the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival is the Los Angeles Premiere of Moloka’I Bound directed by Alika Tengan. His second feature is a deep and compelling film that follows Kainoa De Silva, a wayward Hawaiian man who is on parole and committed to reconnecting with his family. As he attempts to rebuild, he makes mistakes along the way which affects his relationship with his son. This cinematically beautiful film explores themes of second chances and strong cultural identity.

Maybe It’S Just The Rain

The World Premiere of the thoughtful and graceful Maybe It’S Just The Rain directed by Reina Bonta (member of the Philippine World Cup Female Soccer Team) is a poetic...