ISLAND SOLDIER 

Friday, December 1, 6:30PM
The Paramount Center
85 mins | Documentary | Directed by Nathan Fitch
Q&A with Bryan Chang
ISLAND SOLDIER is the untold story of Micronesian citizens fighting America's wars. The film follows members of the Nena family from one of the most remote islands in the world to the training grounds of Texas and the battlefields in Afghanistan. It is an emotional gathering of two families, from opposite sides of the world, brought together by loss, love and honor. 

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S21: THE KHMER ROUGE KILLING MACHINE 

Friday, December 1, 9:00PM
The Paramount Center
101 mins | Documentary | Directed by Rithy Panh
Co-presented by Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association
A unique documentary on the notorious S-21 prison, today the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, with testimony by the only surviving prisoners and former Khmer Rouge guards.

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BOSTON IMMIGRATION STORIES PROJECT LAUNCH​

Saturday, December 2, 1:00PM
Pao Arts Center
Please join AARW on Dec. 2 for a “story slam” featuring several Asian undocumented immigrants sharing their migration experiences. It will also focus on some of the work that we’ve been collaborating on with local and national groups in the Cambodian and Vietnamese communities, which have been targeted for deportation in recent ICE raids. Food and refreshments will be served.​

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THE CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT
Saturday, December 2, 3:30PM

The Paramount Center
160 mins | Documentary | Directed by Ric Burns and Li-Shin Yu
Co-presented by Chinese Historical Society of New England, Lyric Stage and Chinese American Citizens Alliance
This film underscores important connections between the Chinese Exclusion Act and the history of US immigration. By examining the socio-economic and geo-political forces that led to the Act, the film uncovers its unmistakable and wide-ranging consequences on national attitudes towards race, culture, politics, and society.

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MONKEY DANCE ​
Saturday, December 2, 8:00PM

The Paramount Center
75 mins | Documentary | Directed by Julie Mallozzi
Q&A with Director Julie Mallozi and Dancers
Co-presented by Angkor Dance Troupe
MONKEY DANCE is a documentary film about three teens coming of age in Lowell, Massachusetts. Children of Cambodian refugees, they inhabit a tough, working class world shadowed by their parents' nightmares of the Khmer Rouge. Traditional Cambodian dance links them to their parents' culture, but fast cars, hip consumerism, and good times often pull harder.  This screening will PREMIERE a follow-up piece, DANCE FAMILY, on where the dancers are now!

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THE APOLOGY ​
Sunday, December 3, 1:30PM

The Paramount Center 
104 mins | Documentary | Directed by Tiffany Hsiung
Q&A with Director Tiffany Hsiung
Co-presented by ASPIRE
The Apology explores the lives of former "comfort women", the more than 200,000 girls forced into sexual slavery during World War II. Today, they fight for reconciliation and justice as they struggle to make peace with the past.

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THE MISSING PICTURE ​
Sunday, December 3, 4:30PM

The Paramount Center 
92 mins | Documentary | Directed by Rithy Panh
Co-presented by Flying Orb
The Missing Picture is a 2013 Cambodian-French documentary film directed by Rithy Panh about the Khmer Rouge. The film was the Cambodian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards and was nominated. Approximately half of the film is news and documentary footage, while the other half uses clay figurines to recreate what happened in Cambodia when Pol Pot came to power. [Screening will follow a short film by Flying Orb.]

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FREE EVENT
THE LAND OF THE WANDERING SOULS 

Monday, December 4, 3:00PM
Middlesex Community College (50 Kearney Sq, Lowell, MA)
100 mins | Documentary | Directed by Rithy Panh
Presented by Asian American Advancement Program at MCC
A group of poor Cambodian laborers is recorded digging trenches across their country for a project that suggests a brighter future: Southeast Asia's first fiber-optic cable, which will connect the territory to Europe. But as the job stretches on for months, it becomes clear that the workers cannot escape their country's war-torn, Khmer Rouge past -- as they dig, they uncover human remains and old land mines. It's also doubtful whether they can break free from their exhausting, destitute reality.

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WHO IS AMERICAN?
CHINESE EXCLUSION, JAPANESE INTERNMENT, AND TODAY

Thursday, December 7, 6:30PM
Old South Meeting House (310 Washington St, Boston, MA 02108​)
Screening an excerpt of The Chinese Exclusion Act, reading from Lyric Stage's production of Hold These Truths, and a discussion with Prof. Paul Wantanabe

How have politics shaped our perceptions of Americanness throughout U.S. history? And how do todays conversations on immigration and exclusion compare with political, legal, and cultural scenarios from our past? On the 76th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, join this dynamic conversation about the ongoing struggle to define who is American.

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FIRST THEY KILLED MY FATHER 
Saturday, December 9, 2:00PM 
Lowell High School - 50 Fr. Morissette Boulevard, Lowell
136 mins | Narrative | Directed by Angelina Jolie
PANEL DISCUSSION WITH PRODUCER RITHY PANH
Presented by CMAA and partners including BAAFF

First They Killed My Father is the adaptation of Cambodian author and human rights activist Loung Ung’s gripping memoir of surviving the deadly Khmer Rouge regime from 1975 to 1978. The story is told through her eyes, from the age of five, when the Khmer Rouge came to power, to nine years old. The film depicts the indomitable spirit and devotion of Loung and her family as they struggle to stay together during the Khmer Rouge years.

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