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North Korea, cataloged: In a festival filled with archival treasures, a 2009 film about the North Korean women's national soccer team, 'Hana, Dul, Sed....', reminds us how important it is to preserve rare contemporary images for the future. (Photo courtesy SFIAAFF)

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SF International Asian American Film Festival Visits the Archives

By Adam Hartzell

A theme that emerged in this year’s San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (SFIAAFF) was the importance of archives in the film world. The existence of film archives and restoration facilities all have a part to play in the films of Lino Brocka (who received retrospective treatment in the fest), Kim Ki-young’s 1960s classic The Housemaid, Ruby Yang’s documentary A Moment in Time (about Chinese American movie houses of old San Francisco), documentaries such as Aoki and State of Aloha that make heavy use of archival footage to tell their non-fiction narratives, and even an Austrian director’s film about representatives of the North Korean women’s soccer team, Hana, Dul, Sed….　

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