Saranam Gacchâmi, directed by For Us, By Us fellow Priyanka Suryaneni, and My Name is Lai, directed by Re-Take Oakland filmmaker Lucy Saephan, are screening in Roots & Remembrance, an evening of short films for EastSide Arts Alliance’s Film Fridays series in honor of World Refugee Day. The films were curated by Priyanka Suryaneni.
EastSide Arts Alliance
2277 International Blvd, Oakland
Friday, June 20, 2025, 6:00pm
Free event
Saranam Gacchâmi is a documentary film about an enterprising Buddhist Monk who defies all odds to set up one of the largest Tibetan Monasteries in the Bay Area to preserve the endangered Tibetan culture and traditions.
In My Name is Lai, a first generation Mien American elder shares the events leading up to her arrival to the U.S. as a refugee survivor of war.