The 51st San Francisco International Film Festival runs April 24–May 8, 2008 at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas, the Castro Theatre and Landmark’s Clay Theatre in San Francisco; and the Pacific Film Archive Theater in Berkeley. Held each spring for 15 days, the San Francisco International Film Festival is an extraordinary showcase of cinematic discovery and innovation in the country’s most beautiful city, featuring 25 awards, 200 films and live events with upwards of 100 participating filmmakers and diverse audiences of 80,000+ people.

Here’s a list of Asian and Asian american films screening over the next couple of weeks:

Big Man Japan, Hitoshi Matsumoto, Japan

Black Belt, Shunichi Nagasaki, Japan

Brick Lane, Sarah Gavron, England

Calcutta My Love, Goutam Ghose, India

Flower in the Pocket, Liew Seng Tat, Malaysia

Frozen, Shivajee Chandrabhushan, India

Glasses, Naoko Ogigami, Japan

Huling Balyan Ng Buhi (or The Woven Stories of the Other), Sherad Anthony Sanchez, Philippines

Linger, Johnnie To, Hong Kong

Mongol, Sergei Bodrov, Germany/China/Mongolia/Kazakhstan

Orz Boyz, Gillies Ya-che Yang, Taiwan

Pool, Chris Chong Chan Fui, Indonesia (short)

Secret, Jay Chou, Taiwan

Shadows in the Palace, Kim Meejeung, South Korea

Still Life, Jia Zhangke, Hong Kong/China

10 + 4, Mania Akbari, Iran

Umbrella, Du Haibin, China

Up the Yangtze, Yung Chang, Canada

The Warlords, Peter Ho-Sun Chan, Hong Kong

WING, the fish that talked back, Ricky Rijneke, Netherlands (short)

Wonderful Town, Aditya Assarat, Thailand

Calavera Highway, Renee Tajima-Peña, USA/Mexico

Since You’ve Been Ong, Frank Yeean Chan, USA (short)

Watch the trailer for the 51st San Francisco International Film Festival