This year’s AAIFF honors the beauty of repair and transformation, examining how personal and collective fractures can be reassembled into something stronger and more radiant than before. The festival also celebrates the 50th anniversary of its organizing nonprofit, Asian CineVision, which was first founded in 1975 by grassroots media activists Peter Chow, Danny Yung, Thomas Tam, and Christine Choy.

With dozens of screenings and events taking place throughout New York City and online from July 31 to August 10, there’s so much to explore. We’ve compiled a few of the films we’re most looking forward to checking out at AAIFF48.