Got another festival coming up. The San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, now in its 27th year, opens March 12 and runs through March 22 at twelve locations in San Francisco, Berkeley, and San Jose. Like most festivals with the words “San Francisco” in its name, it opens at the Castro, although the festival’s main home will be the Kabuki.
It opens with Lee Yoon-ki’s My Dear Enemy, “A breezy, pitch-perfect ride 
through the streets of Seoul and into the unsuspecting world of two ex-lovers,” according to the festival’s own description. By the time it closes in San Jose with Karma Calling, it will have shown 108 films and videos, provide conversations with Ang Lee and screenwriter Alex Tse.
Filmmakers to be honored include Kiyoshi Kurosawa (no relation to Akira) and Takahiko Iimura. The festival will screen seven of Kurosawa’s films, and the filmmaker himself will be at both screenings of his latest, Tokyo Sonata. Iimura will attend both of his screenings, each a separate collection of short works.
Other screenings that look interesting include Fruit Fly, the latest musical from 
Colma auteur H.P. Mendoza, and Ocean of Pearls, described as “among the first feature-length narrative films portraying the Sikh experience in North America.” In the “out of the vaults” division, there’s Diamond Head, a 1962 biracial melodrama I vaguely remember seeing as a little kid.
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