CRRL Movies: Picks for Asian American & Pacific Islander MonthLike this list

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• Asian Stories

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  A collection of student films from the University of Southern California Cinematic Arts.

• Asian Americans

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  This series traces the story of Asian Americans, spanning 150 years of immigration, racial politics, and cultural innovation. It is a timely look at the role that Asian Americans have played in defining who we are as a nation. You must…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Big Sick

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  Pakistan-born comedian Kumail Nanjiani is in love with grad student Emily Gardner, but struggles as their cultures clash. When Emily contracts a mysterious illness, Kumail finds himself forced to face her feisty parents, his family's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Columbus

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  Casey lives with her mother in a little-known Midwestern town haunted by the promise of modernism. Jin, a visitor from the other side of the world, attends to his dying father. Burdened by the future, they find respite in one another and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Farewell

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  In this funny, heartfelt story, Billi's family returns to China under the guise of a fake wedding to stealthily say goodbye to their beloved matriarch--the only person who doesn't know she only has a few weeks to live. You must have a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Gook

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  Eli and Daniel are two Korean American brothers who run their late father's shoe store in a predominantly African American community in Los Angeles. As Daniel dreams of becoming a recording artist and Eli struggles to keep the store…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Grace Lee Project

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  When award-winning Korean American filmmaker Grace Lee was growing up in Missouri, she was the only Grace Lee she knew. As an adult, however, she moved to New York and then California, where everyone she met seemed to know "another Grace…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Growing Up Smith

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  The coming-of-age story of Smith, a 10-year-old boy from India growing up in 1979 small-town America.

• The Joy Luck Club

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  The Joy Luck Club is four women in San Francisco who have played mah jong together on a weekly basis for 40-some years. Born in China, the Joy Luck Club members came to America as young adults; their daughters are 100% American. The old…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Minari

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  Follows a Korean American family who move to a tiny Arkansas farm in search of their own American Dream. The family home changes completely with the arrival of their sly, foul-mouthed, but incredibly loving grandmother.

• The Namesake

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  The American-born son of Indian immigrants feels pulled between his ethnic heritage and two very different women.

• Vincent Who?

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  This documentary covers the 1982 murder of Chinese American Vincent Chin, at the height of anti-Japanese sentiments arising from massive layoffs in the auto industry. You must have a library card to watch this movie on Kanopy.