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6 stories on diaspora across film, TV, music, fashion, food, and diaspora culture.
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In Honolulu, Asian life spans Kalihi, Ala Moana, Waikīkī, and Kakaʻako without needing to perform for a white center. Mainland "Asian American" culture often sells the polished slice. Here the range just reads as local.
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Li Sitong was a Jieyang finance student when a Douyin search made her the lead of Dear You. The film is already a roughly $291 million hit. September 4 is whether North America learns her name.
Image: Well Go USA / Damai Entertainment
Take Off opens in U.S. theaters September 17, giving Pengfei’s warm, working-class flight story a wider run after Tokyo, New York, and a $12 million Chinese release.
Image: Orchid Tree Media
Dear You turned a $2.1 million Teochew-language family drama into a roughly $291 million global hit. Its new U.S. trailer sets up a Sept. 4 release after an earlier North American date vanished and Well Go USA took the handoff.
Image: Well Go USA / Damai Entertainment
OUT Museum, a bilingual one-room space at 949 Clay Street, bills itself as the world’s first Chinese queer museum. Founder Xiangqi Chen built it so Chinese LGBTQ+ artists from China and the diaspora can be seen in public, including work that cannot safely circulate at home.
Image: Cecilia Lei / COYOTE Media Collective
The first wave of NYAFF 2026 titles runs July 10–26, with Yeon Sang-ho's Colony opening, Joan Chen receiving a lifetime honor, and 50+ filmmakers set to attend across five New York venues.
Image: New York Asian Film Festival / Wikimedia Commons
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