San Diego Asian Film Festival Spring Showcase

Schedule:

12:30 pm | 108 mins
The Moon Thieves
盜月者
Vincent may be an expert watch forger, but he doesn’t have the disposition of a criminal. So when an underworld boss strongarms him into joining a watch heist in Tokyo, he’s caught way out of his league. But the temptation of getting his hands on the holy grail of rare timepieces keeps him going even if it means he’s locked in the crosshairs of gangsters and yakuza. A rollicking fun caper of safecrackers, Cantopop stars, and double-dealers going for the gold while the clock goes tick, tick…

2:45 pm | 115 mins
Seagrass
Judith and Steve are off to a weeklong couples therapy retreat – with their two daughters in tow. It’s a picturesque locale for letting it all out – a cabin by the Pacific, a beach for the kids. There, the couple meet the charismatic Pat, who Steve sizes up with suspicion. And 6-year-old Emmy encounters a ghostly presence, conjuring unspoken histories that haunt the biracial Canadian family. Featuring Ally Maki (Shortcomings) and Chris Pang (Crazy Rich Asians).

5:35 pm | 116 mins
A Normal Family
보통의 가족
Jae-gyu (Jang ****-gun) is the principled brother. He’s a pediatrician with a strict moral code. Jae-wan (Sul Kyung-gu) is the pragmatic one. He’s a lawyer who will take any case, like that of a rich man’s son, who rams his Maserati into a stranger and his daughter. When the injured daughter is brought to Jae-gyu’s ER, the two brothers face off in a delicious moral drama as operatic as it is tense, with egos afire and twists abound. From the acclaimed director of Christmas in August and The Last Princess (SDAFF ’16).

8:00 pm | 115 mins
And So It Begins
With President Duterte’s term expiring, 2022 was supposed to mark the end of despotism in the Philippines. But for director Ramona Diaz, who has spent a career documenting the entrenched taste of authoritarianism, the fight was just re-emerging with new colors. Like pink. Diaz follows the presidential run of Leni Robredo, the opposition candidate whose supporters paint the city in her signature pink as they mount a resistance to the ominous rise of Ferdinand Marcos Jr, who takes the early lead in the race.

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