HIGHLIGHTS & VIDEOS: February 2022 Film Festival

Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.

Audience Award Winners:
BEST FILM: All That Glitters is Bronze

Watch the Audience Feedback Video for each film:

THE LAND OF HOPE, 11min., Japan, Documentary
Directed by Hirokazu Kishida

In May 2016, Ken Yamaguchi, president of the Hokkaido-based construction company Hisaken Group, was invited by a colleague to visit a Japanese language school in Hanoi, Vietnam. The purpose was to interview Vietnamese technical intern trainees. In the run up to the Olympic Games, the construction industry was booming in Japan, but with the declining birthrate and aging population, there was a serious shortage of manpower in the manufacturing and construction industries.

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

CLICK HERE and see full info and more pics of the film!


ALL THAT GLITTERS IS BRONZE, 8min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Jinji Sayson

All That Glitters Is Bronze is a love letter to the Philippine tradition of Kulintang, which was once nearly wiped out by colonization. Around the Bay Area in California, a local band called Kulintang Dialect is keeping the tradition alive. This short documentary offers a brief glimpse of the cosmos through clips of performances interspersed with interviews from the band.

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

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THE RACE EPIDEMIC, 60min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Tony Shyu

Winner of the best documentary award of the Chinese American film festival, The Race Epidemic is about another outbreak caused by Covid-19 – An epidemic of racism against Asian Americans. With a politicized pandemic sweeping through the country and a president calling it the Chinese Virus, the rise of attacks and hate against Asian Americans is not surprising. Can naming a virus after an ethnic of people cause the outbreak of an epidemic of hate? Or is it something hidden deeper within American society? “Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.” The film takes a close examination of xenophobia and racism against Asian Americans caused by the Covid-19 outbreak.

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

CLICK HERE and see full info and more pics of the film!


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