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Don't miss the 11th Annual San Diego Asian Film Festival Spring Showcase, April 21-28, 2022, at the UltraStar Mission Valley. Audiences will enjoy eight days of films from China, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Korea, Vietnam and more. This year's Sunday Series is a retrospective on one of Asia’s first prominent female filmmakers Kinuyo Tanaka, featuring new restorations of Japanese classics like "FOREVER A WOMAN," "GIRLS OF NIGHT," "LOVE UNDER A CRUCIFIX," and "LOVE LETTER." For tickets and the full lineup, visit: sdaff.org Presented by Pacific Arts Movement. Visit them on Facebook + Instagram + @PacArtsMovement on Twitter.

Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021 AT 7:00 p.m. at The San Diego Natural History Museum About the film: Ravi and Rita dutifully go on an arranged blind date. He’s awkward and sincere, while she’s respectfully present, all to get through the ritual of appeasing their traditional Indian parents. And then COVID strikes! Their phones buzz with news about a stay-at-home order, public transportation is suspended, and they’re stuck together on a date that knows no end—and in quarantine, polite gloves start coming off and it starts getting real. Physician-turned-screenwriter Roshan Sethi proves to be the perfect director of the shelter-in-place rom-com, capturing the hilarity and anxiety of our pandemic hearts and spirits. Admission includes outdoor post-screening reception. Screening tickets available here. Opening film cost: $28 non-member, $21 Pac Arts member About the festival: Ticket info here Film programs and schedules here All festival pass: $295 non-member, $195 Pac Arts member Pacific Arts Movement on Instagram

Choose between Riz Ahmed and COVID-19 documentary

This weekend's art and culture offerings include Hiroshima Mockingbirds at Bar Pink, Blindspot Collective's multidisciplinary live theater, the nationwide Breath Project, Bach Collegium livestream, "La Tierra Mia" at Swish Projects and "Be Water" at the SDAFF drive-in.

Showcase of Asian and Asian American films runs through Oct. 31

Pac-Arts Spring Showcase kicks off its ninth year on April 11 with eight days of Asian cinema.

Organizers address issues of cost, role festivals play in the community

Legendary Hong Kong producer Raymond Chow died earlier this month. This podcast pays tribute to his legacy with San Diego Asian Film Festival artistic director Brian Hu. Plus we get a preview of the 19th annual festival.

A documentary set in a Vietnamese mortuary in San Diego's City Heights explores the themes of culture, identity and grief.

Ten-day event kicks off tonight