Be a doctor, a lawyer, or a banker. Make lots of money. Make your parents proud. Yeah, right. From the chronic slacker, to the sociopathic “self-made man,” and everything in between, step out of the model minority myth and into the experiences and expectations of a generation of Asian Americans who walk the roads less traveled.
This shorts block will be followed by a filmmaker Q&A.
Saturday, August 02 2025
5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Regal Union Square - Auditorium 14
850 Broadway
New York, NY
When a groundbreaking medical procedure promises to turn slackers into overachievers, an aging father sees it as his last chance to achieve the American Dream...through his unemployed adult daughter.
Learn MoreA serial grifter faces the music when seemingly everyone he’s ever wronged shows up on the opening day of his dubious Italian ice business.
Learn MoreJudy, a swimmer under immense pressure from her mother, is pushed to a breaking point. When she challenges her mother’s power, both of them must confront truths that threaten to break them apart forever–or bind them tighter than before.
Learn MoreA struggling first-generation Korean American boy tries to abandon his abusive father in a remote town, only to uncover the weight of his mother’s struggles and his father’s hidden burdens.
Learn MoreKumar Kumar is all alone on his birthday. His social media feed is dead. Maybe he should be, too? But then, the computer dings.
Learn MoreA generational trauma through the lens of a Chinese American teenager through food and poetry.
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