Join Asian CineVision for the screenings of Almost American, Homecoming and Going, Daily Worker, ITALIANO, Confucius Plaza, i see myself in you, and Cabbage Daddy as part of the Asian American International Film Festival. These shorts are contemporary films about immigrants from Asia.

Join Asian CineVision for the world premiere of The Act of Dreaming at the Asian American International Film Festival. This documentary follows three immigrant families as they navigate life in Buffalo, NY in 2024: an Ecuadorian family seeking asylum, a Syrian father rebuilding after war, and a Burmese mother and daughter adjusting after decades in a refugee camp. A Q&A will follow the screening.

Join Asian CineVision for the screenings of Back Then, Disease, Heart and Sol, Mother’s Recipe, Satkankul, Searching for Color, and A Story of Nanjing as part of the Asian American International Film Festival. These shorts are created by filmmakers under the age of 21.

Join Asian CineVision for the screenings of i saw you in the flood, Before You, Huong, The Boy with the Dinosaur Head, Whereabouts, and Yu & Me as part of the Asian American International Film Festival. These shorts show how filmmakers find the light in tragedies and overcome heartbreak through the help of their families and communities. This screening will be followed by a Q&A.

Join Asian CineVision for the NYC premiere of the Southeast Asian American Journeys documentary series featuring different refugee communities across the United States. This film is part of an in-person shorts-feature combination screening and will be preceded by the short film, Sea Song.

Join Asian CineVision for a screening of Sea Song directed by An-Phuong Ly. This film is part of an in-person shorts-feature combination screening and will be followed by the documentary series, Southeast Asian American Stories.

Join NYSEAN and Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU for a talk by George B. Radics, senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. Dr. Radics will discuss his new book, Emotional Filipinos The American Myth of the Lazy Native and Islamic Separatism in the Philippines.

Join Asian CineVision for the screenings of Rice Run, Grandma’s Four Color Cards, Sonia Honey, Milk & Honey, Enough, and The Sale as part of the Asian American International Film Festival. These shorts examine the sacrifices that parents make for the sake of their children’s futures. The insecurities and tears are often unseen by those enjoying the care and comforts of the hard-won sacrifices. The screenings will be followed by a filmmaker Q&A.

Join Asian CineVision for the North American premiere of Sisa at the Asian American International Film Festival. A Q&A will follow the screening, with producer Rey Cuerdo and lead cast Hilda Koronel joining in person, director Jun Robles Lana joining live via Zoom from Manila, and moderated by Leslie Li.

Join Asian CineVision for the East Coast premiere of Whisperings of the Moon at the Asian American International Film Festival. Nisay, an actress haunted by loss, returns to Cambodia and to Thida — a love once forbidden. Bound by the weight of family and society, their passion survives only in memory and performance, until it must fade away.

Join Asian CineVision for the NYC premiere of the Indonesian supernatural drama Levitating, a Sundance 2026 selection directed by Wregas Bhanuteja about spiritual possession and fighting against gentrification. The screening will be followed by an in-person Q&A with the director and the opening night reception for the Asian American International Film Festival.

Join the Asia Society Policy Institute for a webinar unpacking both the state of the cybercrime industry in Southeast Asia and beyond, what the U.S. and China have done so far to address it, where these approaches have fallen short, and needed next steps. Speakers include Sue-Lin Wong, Asia Correspondent at The Economist and host of the award-winning Scam Inc. podcast; Jacob Sims, expert on transnational crime and Visiting Fellow at Harvard’s Asia Center; and Selina Ho, Dean's Chair Associate Professor in International Affairs and Vice-Dean (Research and Development), Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. Bryanna Entwistle, Press and Program Officer at ASPI, will moderate.

Join the Asian Art Museum after hours to experience the largest bronze ever cast in Southeast Asia, enriched by spotlight talks and followed by a dance performance, a short film screening, and an artist conversation. This event celebrates their exhibition Vishnu’s Cosmic Ocean!

Join the Asia Society and Asian CineVision for a screening of Moonglow by Isabel Sandoval.

Isabel Sandoval stars in her latest feature, a noirish moral tale set in 1979 Manila.

Followed by a Q&A.

Join the Asia Society and Asian CineVision for a screening of Lingua Franca by Isabel Sandoval.

In her only feature to date made in the USA, Sandoval stars as Olivia, an undocumented trans Filipina woman living in Brooklyn and working as a caregiver.

Followed by a Q&A.

Join the Asia Society and Asian CineVision for a screening of Aparisyon (Apparition) by Isabel Sandoval.

It’s 1971 in a remote forest near Manila, where Sister Lourdes (Jodi Sta. Maria) arrives to join a cloister of nuns—in theory separated from the outside world—at the convent Adoration.

Followed by a Q&A.

Join the Asia Society and Asian CineVision for a screening of Señorita by Isabel Sandoval.

Donna (Isabel Sandoval) is a trans woman in a small town in the Philippines who takes care of her friend’s son and works as the aide to a do-gooding mayoral candidate.

Followed by a Q&A.

Join the Southeast Asia Digital Library to celebrate the launch of their newest collection, Hanoi Grapevine's Finest, with a discussion on Audience-led Archives and Contemporary Vietnamese Art. Speakers include Nguyễn Tú Hằng, Director of Hanoi Grapevine; Emily Zinger, Southeast Asia Digital Librarian, and Đỗ Tường Linh, Director of the Nguyen Wahed Gallery and Art Curator Vincom Center for Contemporary Art.

Join the Asia Society New York for a film screening of Lost Land on the eve of World Refugee Day, an international day designated by the United Nations to honor the strength, resilience, and courage of people forced to flee their countries due to conflict or persecution. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Writer and Director Akio Fujimoto and Consulting Producer Eric Nyari to deepen understanding, foster empathy, and engage in meaningful dialogue about the global refugee experience.

Join the Asia Society New York for a film screening of Boat People (1981) by Ann Hui, which captures the experiences of postwar Vietnamese society.

At the AIFIS-MSU Conference on Indonesian Studies, join NYSEAN and SEACAF for a roundtable that will explore the relationship between authoritarianism and threats to academic and intellectual freedom in a way that puts attacks on higher education in the United States in conversation with Southeast Asia. The Roundtable includes the following scholars: Bencharat Sae Chua of the Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies at Mahidol University in Thailand; Herlambang Wiratraman of the Research Center of Law and Social Justice at Universitas Gadjah Mada in Indonesia; Sol Iglesias of the University of the Philippines-Diliman’s Political Science Department in the Philippines, Sidney Jones of NYSEAN and New York University’s International Affairs Program, and Rianne Subijanto of Baruch College, City University of New York. Margaret Scott, a founder of NYSEAN and a journalist with the New York Review of Books, will chair.

Join the Australia National University (ANU) Southeast Asia Institute for a talk by Tommy Chai, a PhD Candidate at ANU’s Strategic and Defence Studies Centre. This webinar examines continental Southeast Asia as a strategic space structured by two distinct but interacting sets of constraints: the current borders of Southeast Asia and a historically constituted strategic space centered on the mainland river basins of the Irrawaddy, Chao Phraya, Mekong, and Red River systems, but extending into adjoining upland and frontier zones such as Yunnan.

Join the Asia Society Museum and HBO for a special screening of The A List: 15 Stories from Asian and Pacific Diasporas. This film brings together a tableau of voices to explore the themes of representation, belonging, and what it means to be Asian American or Pacific Islander in America. Through intimate reflections, participants explore the relationship between national identity and solidarity, individual and community, home country and home.

Join the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for a webinar by Alex-Thái Đình Võ, Research Assistant Professor at the Vietnam Center, Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive at Texas Tech University, and Phan Xuân Dũng, Senior Research Officer at ISEAS and PhD candidate at the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, Australian National University. They will explore U.S. government–supported initiatives that are part of the process of Vietnam–U.S. reconciliation: the Vietnam Wartime Accounting Initiative, which supports the search for Vietnamese wartime missing persons, and programs assisting people with disabilities linked to Agent Orange/dioxin exposure.

Join the Asia Society Museum for a talk by Danielle Chang, the creator, host, and producer of the Emmy-nominated Outstanding Culinary Series Lucky Chow (PBS). The evening will feature a screening of two episodes as she explores how Asian flavors are transforming European food culture, offering a firsthand look at the chefs and traditions bridging these two worlds.

Join NYSEAN for a talk by Dr. Eve Warburton, visiting fellow at NYU Wagner and research fellow at the Department of Political and Social Change at Australian National University. Dr. Warburton will discuss how Indonesia's declining democracy, weak state capacity, and state-business entanglements, created an ideal environment for fast-paced upstream extraction and large-scale downstream foreign investment.