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Welcome to the 3rd Annual Spring Showcase, a week-

long presentation of 12 dynamic films from 10 countries.

Presented by Pacific Arts Movement (Pac-Arts), the Spring

Showcase is one of many year-round programs of Pac-Arts

including the popular San Diego Asian Film Festival, which takes

place this year November 7-15, 2013.

We believe film has the power to enlighten, bridge communities,

and change lives. If you love world cinema and rich, independent

storytelling, please consider becoming a member of Pac-Arts and

JOIN THE MOVEMENT online at Pac-Arts.org or contact

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In 2012, Jeremy Lin went from undrafted benchwarmer

cut from multiple NBA teams to the overnight toast of

New York City, an inspiration to underdogs everywhere,

and the headliner of the global phenomenon called

Linsanity. What hasn’t been told is the story of a

charismatic Bay Area kid armed with faith, family, and

undeniable skills. Lin’s entire life has been a kind of

insanity, but what makes it so inspiring is that it’s also

acutely familiar to any young Asian American. The

triumph of LINSANITY is only partially about basketball.

It’s also about how the everyday people around us can,

despite expectations, be extraordinary.

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closiNg Night preseNtAtioNJAB TAK HAI JAAN

Thurs, April 25 | 7:00pm

Digiplex Mission Valley

Director Yash Chopra

India | 176 minutes

Shah Rukh Khan plays Samar, a bomb diffuser chapped

by life so he now lives dangerously. When the perky

Akira (Anushka Sharma) dives into Samar’s desert of an

existence, he’s transported into the past, to his days as

a street musician in London where he was swept off his

nimble feet by the sultry Meera (Katrina Kaif). JAB TAK

HAI JAAN is the last of a dying breed in Bollywood,

the sort of bombastic, breathtaking film that wears

everything on its silken sleeves because anything less

would be inexcusable, especially when it comes to love.

LINSANITY

Thurs, April 18 | 7:00pm

Birch North Park Theatre

Director Evan Jackson Leong

USA | 88 minutes

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Co-presented by Harvard

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Cultural Center, University of San

Diego, House of China, Chinese

Community Church, Taiwanese

American Professionals, NAAAP,

Taiwanese American Foundation,

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ABIGAIL HARM

Tues, April 23 | 6:45pm

Director Lee Isaac Chung

USA | 80 minutes

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Abigail Harm (Amanda Plummer) reads books to

the blind. But there’s one story in particular that

she can’t get out of her head, a Korean folktale

about a woodcutter who saves a deer, who in

turns tells its savior how to win the undying love

of a nymph. Before long, the folktale appears

to come alive in Abigail’s New York apartment.

Director Lee Isaac Chung bathes the characters

in a lyricism that is entranced by the possibility of

love taking on new shapes.

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COMRADE KIM

GOES FLYING

Sun, April 21 | 3:30pm

Mon, April 22 | 6:40pm

Director kimgwanghun,

Nicholas Bonner, Anja Daelemans

North Korea, Belgium, UK

81 minutes

Co-presented by

University of San Diego

Out of a coal mine flies the dove-like Kim Yang Mi,

whose dreams of becoming a trapeze artist take

her to Pyongyang, where her idealism can take flight

under the wing of her idol. With an anachronistic

sense of fun and a splash of magic, COMRADE KIM

affectionately captures the joy of settling for nothing

less than the sky itself. With its all-smiles earnestness,

its campy lyricism, and its window onto North Korean

fantasy, COMRADE KIM has seduced audiences

on both sides of the 38th parallel, and just about

everywhere else under the clear blue skies.

HARANA

Sat, April 20 | 1:00pm

Wed, April 24 | 4:45pm

Director Benito Bautista

Philippines, USA | 104 minutes

Co-presented by

PASACAT

guitaristfloranteaguilarreturnstothephilippines

in search of the music of his father’s generation: the

gentle serenades known as harana. On farms and in

the streets of Cavite, Aguilar and director Benito

Bautista find Celestino, Felipe, and the aptly-named

Romeo, brought together for neighborhood jam

sessions that might just spark a musical renaissance.

Filled with classic songs and teeming with romantic

fervor, HARANA conjures history from the fields and

spellbinds audiences young and old.

KAI PO CHE

Sat, April 20 | 6:15pm

Tues, April 23 | 8:45pm

Director Abhishek Kapoor

India | 127 minutes

Co-presented by

University to Qualcomm

Three childhood friends have only a few crackpot

ideas between them, but that doesn’t stop them from

opening their own sporting goods store and sports

academy. Things start looking their way when they

discover a young cricket phenom in the Ahmedabad

streets. But the streets hold more in store than

sports for the hapless trio who soon face headfirst

thepoliticsandreligiousstrifeofthegujarat.With

its ambitious take on recent history, KAI PO CHE

proves to be more than a sports movie. And yet, at

heart, it’s a film about banding together, overcoming

obstacles, and basking in our everyday victories.

KEY OF LIFE

Fri, April 19 | 6:25pm

Wed, April 24 | 7:00pm

Director Kenji Uchida

Japan | 128 minutes

Co-presented by

Kyocera

Nothing ever goes right for small-time actor Sakurai.

So when opportunity strikes, he decides to switch lives

with somebody else. Unfortunately, that somebody

turns out to be master hitman Kondo and suddenly

Sakurai is thrust into the role of his life. Meanwhile,

the actual Kondo awakens as an amnesiac wandering

onto film sets and into a really bad wardrobe. Through

writer-director Kenji Uchida’s mischievous twists and

stone-cold humor, the film hysterically asks if we live

life according to the script we’re given, or if destiny is

open to rewrites.

LA SOURCE

Sat, April 20 | 11:00am

Mon, April 22 | 5:00pm

Director Patrick Shen

USA | 71 minutes

Co-presented by

Water for People,

San Diego Chapter

Josue Lajuenesse is a janitor at Princeton by day and

a taxi driver by night. When his mind isn’t on raising

his teenage kids, it’s on fulfilling a life dream: to bring

clean water to his hometown in Haiti. Emerging

before documentarian Patrick Shen’s camera are

communities of volunteerism spanning two countries

and crossing racial and class lines. Also emerging

is the passionate voice of a man otherwise in the

background, who as it turns out, cleans more than

just the Ivy towers, but also the source of life for an

entire village.

THE LAST SUPPER

Sat, April 20 | 8:50pm

Mon, April 22 | 8:40pm

Director Lu Chuan

China | 115 minutes

Co-presented by

Three Treasures Cultural Arts

Society, Confucius Institute,

San Diego Chinese

Historical Museum

Two ordinary men of guile and idealism (played by

Liu Ye and Chang Chen) move up the ranks and end

upsquaringoffagainstthecharismaticdukexiangyu

(Daniel Wu) – and as fate would have it, against each

other as well. Ambition and friendship choke each

other like a vice in a historical milieu and landscape as

muddy and tormented as any epic to ever come out of

China. Director Lu Chuan refuses to succumb to the

picturesque classicism of the period film, instead using

a well-known political/military juncture in Chinese

history to rethink the way we understand about

history and power today.

PIETA

Fri, April 19 | 9:00pm

Sun, April 21 | 7:20pm

Director Kim Ki-duk

South Korea | 104 minutes

In a Seoul neighborhood are iron workers scraping

by living loan-to-loan. Roaming the streets is debt

collector Kang-do, a cross between assassin and

mafioso. One day, a mysterious woman follows him

home, claiming to be his mother. Their encounters

are violent, but start to ache the mutual pity of

the film’s title. Beautifully crafted and colored, this

Venice Film Festival-winner juxtaposes yearning

for connection with the bleakness of humanity

scratching the callous surface even if its nails bleed

and nobody recognizes it anymore.

UNITED RED ARMY

(THE YOUNG MAN WAS,

PART 1)

Fri, April 19 | 4:45pm

Sun, April 21 | 5:30pm

Tues, April 23 | 5:00pm

Director Naeem Mohaiemen

USA, Bangladesh | 70 minutes

In 1977, JAL flight 472 was hijacked by the United

Red Army and forced to land in Bangladesh. All that

remains are the original audio recordings between

the Japanese hijackers and Bangladeshi negotiators

in the airport control tower. In a bold move that

also proves utterly riveting, visual artist Naeem

Mohaiemen presents the historical artifacts in their

chilling paucity. The style is minimalist and the

conversations, at once polite and piercingly hostile,

vividly reveal a political stalemate unfolding with

more intrigue and surprise as any TV drama.

WOLF CHILDREN

Sat, April 20 | 3:45pm

Sun, April 21 | 1:00pm

Director Mamoru Hosoda

Japan | 117 minutes

Co-presented by Kyocera

In college, Hana meets the love of her life. Though

it turns out he’s the rare descendant in a line of

Japanese wolf-people, Hana stays with him, and

they have a daughter and son. With great tenacity

and creativity, Hana learns to care for kids who

have the plucky charm of young humans, but the

unpredictability and appetite of growing puppies.

Director Mamoru Hosoda (Summer Wars) tells the

tall tale straight, evoking nostalgia, lush romance, and

the most tender of kinships to produce one of the

most surprisingly human films of the year.

You are an artist.You see the true beauty in creative expression. You strive to elevateour culture. You believe the arts make our community and the world a richer place. For your dedication and your passion, we salute you.

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scheDUle & iNfoTHurSDAy, APrIl 18*7:00pm LINSANITY (USA)

frIDAy, APrIl 194:45pm UNITED RED ARMY (Bangladesh/USA)6:25pm KEY OF LIFE (Japan)9:00pm PIETA (S. Korea)

SATurDAy, APrIl 2011:00am LA SOURCE (USA)1:00pm HARANA (Philippines/USA)3:45pm WOLF CHILDREN (Japan)6:15pm KAI PO CHE (India)8:50pm THE LAST SUPPER (China)

SuNDAy, APrIl 211:00pm WOLF CHILDREN (Japan)3:30pm comradekimgoesflying (N.Korea/UK/Belgium)5:30pm UNITED RED ARMY (Bangladesh/USA)7:20pm PIETA (S. Korea)

MONDAy, APrIl 225:00pm LA SOURCE (USA)6:40pm comradekimgoesflying (N.Korea/UK/Belgium)8:40pm THE LAST SUPPER (China)

TuESDAy, APrIl 235:00pm UNITED RED ARMY (Bangladesh/USA)6:45pm abigailharm(usa)8:45pm KAI PO CHE (India)

WEDNESDAy, APrIl 244:45pm HARANA (Philippines/USA)7:00pm KEY OF LIFE (Japan)9:30pm TBA

THurSDAy, April 254:30pm TBA7:00pm JAB TAK HAI JAAN (India)

TICkETSticketstoallshowsareavailableonline&at Digiplex Mission Valley box office starting 4/16 1PM, except for LINSANITY tickets whichareonlyavailableonline&atbirchNorth Park on 4/18 starting at 4PM.

$65.00 All-Access pass (members only) $40.00 4-pack$11.50 general$8.00 Member$9.00 groupsof10+(before4/16)$9.00 Student/Senior/Military (at the door only)

VENuES*Birch North Park Theatre(April 18, Opening Night only)2891 University Ave, San Diego, CA 92104

Digiplex Mission Valley, Hazard Center(April 19-25, main location for all films)7510 Hazard Ctr. Dr, San Diego, CA 92108

CONTACTQuestions about the Spring Showcase? Contact us: info@pac-arts.orgor 619-400-5911

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