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Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Films and Documentaries |
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Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Tells the story of Abacus Federal Savings of Chinatown, New York, the only bank prosecuted after the 2008 financial crisis.
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Young Rock
Based on outrageous stories of his youth, follows the coming-of-age journey of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
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Asian Americans
Explores Asian American history including such topics as immigration, racial politics, international relations, and cultural innovation.
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The Big Sick
A couple struggles with their relationship when their parents disapprove due to cultural differences.
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Crazy Rich Asians
When an American-born Chinese woman attends a wedding in Singapore with her boyfriend, she discovers that his family is very wealthy and other women in his social class are trying to date him
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The Farewell
When a Chinese family finds out that their grandmother has only a short time left to live, they plan a family reunion before she dies without telling her.
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Go Back to China
When a spoiled rich woman depletes most of her trust fund, she is forced to return to China and reconnect with her estranged family while working in their toy factory.
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Lion
After getting lost on the streets of Calcutta as a five-year-old, thirty-year-old Saroo sets out to find his lost family
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The Joy Luck Club
The stories of four native-born Chinese women and their American-born daughters, showing the influence each has on the others' lives, and how they are the same and different
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Meet the Patels
Ravi Patel gets help from his family to start looking for a wife in the traditional Indian way.
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Minari
Follows a Korean American family that moves to a farm in the Arkansas Ozarks in the 1980s.
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Moana
Moana, the strong-willed daughter of a Polynesian chief sets out from her island home across the ocean in search of Maui, a demigod, to save her people from a curse.
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Parasite /
Follows the Kim family as they begin providing luxury services to the wealthy Park family but are soon caught in an underhanded struggle to maintain their new lifestyle
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Mulan
A young Chinese woman disguises herself as a male warrior in an effort to save her father.
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The Namesake
The grown son of Indian immigrants is torn between finding his own cultural identity amongst his New York friends and respecting his parents' traditional ways.
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Plus One
Long-time friends Alice and Ben agree to be each other's date for the endless parade of their friends' weddings.
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Raya and the Last Dragon
A warrior named Raya sets out to find the last dragon in an effort to save the world of Kumandra from monsters known as the Druun.
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Searching
After his sixteen-year-old daughter goes missing, a man breaks into her laptop to find clues about her disappearance.
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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Martial arts master Shang-Chi confronts the past he thought he left behind when he is drawn into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organization, led by his father.
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Turning Red
A thirteen-year-old girl named Mei Lee turns into a giant red panda whenever she gets too excited.
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Twinsters
Tells the story of two young women who discover that they are identical twin sisters separated at birth and raised on different continents.
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ULAM: Main Dish
ULAM: Main Dish is the first Filipino food documentary following the rise of the Filipino food movement via the chefs crossing over to the center of the American table.
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