
More good stuff happening tonight at
SFIAAFF, including the indie-pop edition of the festival's annual music showcase,
Directions in Sound. With performances from KIIIIIII, Scrabbel, Dreamdate and DJ Pickpocket. Tonight at the Rickshaw Stop in San Francisco.
As for films, there's David Kaplan's pseudo-animated modern Cinderella drama
Year of the Fish, fresh from Sundance, as well as Socheata Poeuv's award-winning documentary
New Year Baby, both playing at the Opera Plaza.
Over at the Van Ness, you've got films like Doan Hoang's
Oh Saigon, a documentary about one Vietnamese refugee family's story. It's paired in the same program with the Hung Nguyen's deeply moving short documentary
Going Home. There's also Nick Broomfield's
Ghosts, a fictionalized account of a true 2004 tragedy, when twenty-three illegal Chinese workers drowned at England's Morecambe Bay. And on the complete opposite side of the spectrum, you've got Johnnie To's acclaimed Hong Kong crime drama
Exiled, his semi-sequel to 1999's
The Mission. Lots of intense looks and dudes with guns. Finally, there's Joy Dietrich's long-awaited feature
Tie a Yellow a Ribbon, a drama about the complex emotional struggles of Asian American women, and one of the first feature films to address the alarmingly high rates of suicide and depression among Asian American women. That should keep you busy tonight.