KYLYN Festival Screening with Live Score | Attack from Space!

Enjoy some classic Japanese sci-fi with a modern twist! Award-winning electronic musician Joo Won Park will provide a live score to the 1965 movie Attack from Space!, directed by Koreyoshi Akasaka and Teruo Ishii and starring Ken Utsui.

In Attack from Space!, benevolent aliens from the planet Emerald send superhero Starman to protect Earth from invasion by an evil alien race called the Spherions. When Starman arrives on Earth, he discovers a conspiracy involving Earth's top scientists, and he must root out the traitors and also stop the impending alien invasion.

KYLYN Festival Film Screening & Q&A: The Most Honorable Son

The Most Honorable Son is the story of Ben Kuroki, the first Japanese American war hero—an airman over North Africa, Europe, and Japan. This documentary charts Kuroki's historic, controversial journey from the day Pearl Harbor was attacked to the atomic bombings of Japan.

Join the film's director, Bill Kubota, for a Q&A after the screening.

Film Screening | Cape No. 7

Written and directed by Te-Sheng Wei, this widely popular Taiwanese movie won 15 awards in eight Taiwanese and international film festivals. In this romantic musical comedy-drama, a diverse group of people in the small town of Hengchun founds a band to perform a concert on the beach, while the lead singer searches for the originally intended recipient of seven lost love letters from decades ago.

Film Screening and Q&A | Cross Culture & Religion: Indian Christians in America

This documentary is the fourth in the Peoples of India series. The film tells a personal story of Indian Christians in America. It focuses on their identity emerging from a unique combination of race, religion and culture that makes them stand out both among the other Indian immigrants in the U.S. as well as among other Christian Americans. A film for a global audience, promoting an understanding of the dynamics of race, religion and culture in terms of forming and reforming the Indian Christian identity as these people move from the margins to the mainstream in American society.

Screening & Discussion | Who Killed Vincent Chin?

On a hot summer night in Detroit in 1982, Ronald Ebens, an autoworker, killed Vincent Chin, a young Chinese American draftsman with a baseball bat. Although he confessed, he never spent a day in jail. This gripping Academy Award-nominated film relentlessly probes the implications of the murder, for the families of those involved, and for the American justice system. Who Killed Vincent Chin? was recently restored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and also added to the National Film Registry.

Film Screening and Panel Discussion | God Said Give 'Em Drum Machines

Historically, economically, and artistically, Detroit has had to fight for survival. And it’s had to fight even harder for recognition. The spirit of that fight is epitomized by GOD SAID GIVE ‘EM DRUM MACHINES (GSGEDM), a documentary 12 years in the making which traces the birth of techno music to its unlikely origins in the D.