Past Festivals
Take a look back at over a decade of the Seattle Asian American Film Festival — a celebration of stories, creativity, and community. This page will soon feature links to past festival programs, highlight reels, and photo recaps. For now, you can browse through our collection of festival posters from the past 12 years and relive some of the moments that have shaped SAAFF into what it is today.
2025 Festival
Our 2025 festival was a fun and inspiring weekend at the Wing Luke Museum and Broadway Performance Hall, filled with powerful stories from Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander filmmakers and so many memorable moments shared with our community.
2013–Present — The Modern Era of SAAFF
Explore over a decade of SAAFF posters — each one representing a unique year of storytelling, art, and community.
(Links to past festival pages coming soon!)
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013 — Our First Festival
Our Roots — 1985
The first Seattle Asian American Film Festival was founded in 1985 by KingStreet Media, a community-based Asian American media group in Seattle’s International District. After several iterations over the decades, SAAFF was relaunched in 2013 — carrying forward the same spirit of celebrating Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander stories through film, art, and community.