People’s Cinema Club is a weekly film series curated by Philadelphia's independent film community. 

This week’s screening:

Southeast Asian American Journeys

Presented with five chapters, SOUTHEAST ASIAN AMERICAN JOURNEYS follows different refugee communities across the United States: The Market is the journey to the Southeast Asian Market in south Philadelphia’s FDR Park. Threads paints a sprawling portrait of indigenous Montagnard refugee community in North Carolina, threading intergenerational history-making. Teb Chaw (Land) is an immersive vignette of Hmong farmers transforming local foodways in a diversified Minnesota. Muoz-Doic Mixtape is an offering of intergenerational storytelling from the Iu Mien community of Portland, Oregon. Between Us follows the multilayered stories of queer Cambodian and Vietnamese cultural workers in southern California.

Documentary Feature (2025)

Runtime: 70 min

Language: Lao, Khmer, Bunong, Hmong, Mienh, Vietnamese

Dir. Quyen Nguyen-Le, Joua Lee Grande, Oanh-Nhi Nguyen

Note: English subtitles are available for this screening.

About People’s Cinema Club

People’s Cinema Club is a microcinema powered by BlackStar at the Village of Industry and Art. The cinema club hosts intimate screenings for local audiences right in the heart of Center City Philadelphia. People’s Cinema Club is a collaboration between BlackStar Projects, cinéSPEAK, Philadelphia Latino Arts & Film Festival, and Philadelphia Asian American Film Foundation. Catch a new movie each week, curated by some of your favorite organizations at the helm of film culture in Philadelphia. 

Join us every Tuesday at 6:30pm for classics, Philadelphia premieres, local films, and deep cuts right in the center of the city. Hosted in the screening room at the newly repurposed Village of Industry and Art, with free and accessible admission for all, People’s Cinema Club brings the magic of cinema to the Avenue of the Arts. 

Grab a seat. Bring your friends. This is cinema for the people.

The People’s Cinema Club is made possible through support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The Village of Industry & Art is a center for creativity, craft, and community in the heart of Philadelphia, where makers and thinkers within historic buildings bring bold projects to life through process and practice. 

Location

Village of Industry & Art (320 S. Broad) , Screening Room

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