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  17th Annual Austin Asian American Film Festival

  Want to watch 30 films in 5 days? The 17th Annual Austin Asian American Film Festival features films from Asian and Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) filmmakers over the course of 5 jam-packed days, including several films from Austin- and Texas-based filmmakers, join AAAFF for 5 days of community, independent film, and tapping into and finding your inner happy monster.

  June 25-29  

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  Gaza’s Eyes

  Even as their world burns, students in Gaza are picking up their cameras to tell original stories and depict their lives. Even more astoundingly, they are still able to get those short films out to the world, and in 2023 the ConnectHER Film Festival curated six of those shorts, all giving insight into the lives of young women under occupation and bombardment. Now, AFS Cinema presents that program, complete with a post-screening Q&A with Watermelon Pictures founder Alana Hadid and ConnectHER founder Lila Igram. This is a free screening: Please RSVP in advance at AustinFilm.org. – Richard Whittaker

  Tue., Sept. 10

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  The Terminator (1984)

  In a different world, Miller Drake finishes directing Piranha II: The Spawning, and we never hear of James Cameron except as a special effects guy for B-movie legend Roger Corman. But Drake gets fired by bullying producer Ovidio G. Assonitis, who replaces him with Cameron and then fires him two and a half weeks later. Cameron, so disgusted by the experience of having no control over his set, makes his zero-budget sci-fi slasher on completely his own terms – and changes action cinema forever. Against his wishes and much as he has tried to disown it, Piranha II is listed as his first directing credit, but his Arnold Schwarzenegger-led film of a merciless robotic killer is his real debut. Catch this incredible new 4K restoration from the original 35mm negative, with new Cameron-approved Atmos sound mix. Plus, happy to report, Cameron and Drake remained friends. – Richard Whittaker Read a full review of The Terminator.

  Sept. 10-11 

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  Paris, Texas (1984)

  Autumn is the time for settling into a comforting nostalgia, a pleasant low-grade melancholy that will carry you through the colder months – making the shift to spring all the sweeter. And what better film is there to provoke ambient melancholy than Paris, Texas, Wim Wenders’ heart-wrenching epic of lost love and desert-wandering? Starring the most disheveled man in the world (Harry Dean Stanton) and the most radiantly blond woman in the world (Nastassja Kinski), Ry Cooder’s windswept slide guitar score draws you in and never lets go. – Lina Fisher

  Sept. 6-12

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