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Photographic Justice: The Corky Lee Story
Wednesday, May 6 at 9 p.m.
Chinese American photographer Corky Lee documents the celebrations, struggles, and daily lives of Asian American and Pacific Islanders, assembling an astonishing archive of nearly one million images.
POV: Tokyo Uber Blues
Thursday, May 7 at 3 p.m.
Shot with a mix of smartphones and GoPros, filmmaker Taku Aoyagi documents his daily bike rides as an Uber Eats worker. While pedaling on Tokyo's deserted streets and delivering boba tea to cloistered condos, he begins to wonder what Ken Loach said about the Uberization of society. What does gig work offer an unemployed person with student debt?
Your Serve or Mine?
Thursday, May 7 at 4 p.m.
In 1971, a small group of U.S. table tennis players made history by traveling to a then-isolated China. They were the first Americans to legally visit in more than 20 years and opened lines of communication that remain vital today. They succeeded where diplomats had failed. The people-to-people links they established continue through a new generation of American and Chinese college students.
We Said No! No!: A Story of Civil Disobedience
Monday, May 11 at 8 p.m.
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the United States declared war on Japan. In March of 1942, the U.S. government forcibly removed 120,000 Japanese Americans from their homes and sent them to "internment" camps. After one year, every man and woman over 18 had to fill out what has come to be known as the "Loyalty Questionnaire."
America Reframed: Geographies of Kinship
Thursday, May 14 at 8 p.m.
The film weaves the complex personal histories of four adult adoptees born in South Korea with the rise of the country's global adoption program. Raised in foreign families, each adoptee sets out to reconnect with their roots, mapping the geographies of kinship that bind them to a homeland they never knew.
POV: Who's Afraid of Nathan Law?
Thursday, May 14 at 8:30 p.m.
At 21, he was a leader of Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution. By 23, he became Hong Kong's youngest elected lawmaker. At 26, Nathan Law was Most Wanted under the National Security Law. The film follows the city's most famous dissident as he confronts the cost of unchecked authoritarianism—and what freedom means in its shadow.
POV: Against the Tide
Friday, May 15 at 7 p.m.
Mumbai fishermen Rakesh and Ganesh carry the weight of the great Koli Knowledge system — a centuries-old bond with the sea, where every tide and moonrise shapes their lives. While Rakesh clings to the comfort of tradition, Ganesh is pulled by the lures of technology. Their friendship, once unbreakable, is tested by the sorrow of a vanishing way of life and the relentless advance of climate change, threatening both their future and the sea they love.
Finding Her Beat
Monday, May 18 at 2 p.m.
For thousands of years, women have been locked out of Taiko drumming. Not anymore. In the dead of a Minnesota winter, Asian drumming divas smash gender roles and redefine power on their own terms. Finding Her Beat dives into the rhythms and struggles that lead to an electrifying historic performance that changes everything.
Atomic People
Monday, May 18 at 8 p.m.
Combining their personal accounts with archive footage, Atomic People features a number of voices from some of the only people left on Earth to have survived a nuclear bomb.
Pacific Heartbeat: Island Cowgirls
Thursday, May 21 at 7 p.m.
Two stories explore the uncertain futures of two Hawaiian paniolos: One prepares to graduate from high school and must decide whether to stay home or leave. Meanwhile, the other plans for the future of her ranch while facing the uncertainty of the state-held lease of the land expiring soon.
Price of Paradise
Thursday, May 21 at 8 p.m.
At 55, Lindamae Lawelawe Carillo Maldonado found the family she never knew. Born on Molokaʻiʻs Kalaupapa peninsula, once a place of exile for those with Hansen’s Disease, she learned she had been taken from her mother at birth. Her journey unearths a buried history of loss and reclaimed identity.
Fanny: The Right to Rock
Saturday, May 23 at 8 p.m.
The award-winning film chronicles the life and revival of the legendary all-woman rock band, Fanny. Founded by two Filipina American sisters, the group is the first all-female band to release an album with a major record label. Fighting barriers of race, gender, and sexuality, Fanny made a groundbreaking impact on modern music.
Frontline: South Korea's Adoption Reckoning
Thursday, May 28 at 7 p.m.
In partnership with Associated Press, Frontline examines allegations of fraud and abuse in South Korea's historic foreign adoption boom. The documentary investigates cases of falsified records and identities among the adoptions of 200,000 children to the U.S. and other countries over the decades.
POV: Between Goodbyes
Saturday, May 30 at 8:30 p.m.
When a queer Korean adoptee reunites with her birth mother in Seoul, buried cultural misunderstandings and unspoken regrets surface. With tenderness, humor, and determination, mother and daughter navigate the heart-wrenching legacy of international adoption.