Yng-Jaw Jing's The Choice is a softly humorous sketch of the darker side of immigration. Residing in Los Angeles, our Taiwanese protagonist is a disheartened man. His college degree means little at the trivial jobs he secures and material comfort seems like a billboard for others to read. When the younger brother, now a successful businessman, arrives, the failure and cultural isolation intensifies. The older brother does his best to masquerade as an affluent American but, as Yng-Jaw Jing shows, once unmasked there is nothing but loneliness. In Made in China, Lisa Hsia, a Chinese-American, embarks on a journey to Beijing, attracted by the photo of a distant cousin. Home movies, animation and snapshots are deftly interwoven to tell the story of two cultures and one heritage. The young Bostonian finds that it is not language marring the communication, but a world of "difference." Director Hsia's cultural odyssey takes the form of a personal essay, possessing an intimacy of observation and humor. Ann Yen's No Starch Please reverses not only the direction in this fictional odyssey, but the generations. Ah Lee, an older Chinese immigrant, returns briefly to China to find a wife. Back in New York with his young bride, May, he discovers that tradition on both sides of the Pacific has irretrievably altered. An aspiring artist, May has discarded the values of the past for a present very much charged by individual dreams and ambition. With a Chinatown laundry as the backdrop, these two disparate people try to iron out their differences.