Each year, the Center for Asian American Media brings us the best in contemporary cinema from Asia and the Asian diaspora. The thirty-second installment of this adventurous festival at BAM/PFA feature films and documentaries from Singapore, Japan, India, the Philippines, Cambodia, Thailand, the United States, and other film-producing regions. In conjunction with the festival's special focus on filmmakers from the Himalayan nations, we devote an installment of our Committed Cinema series to the Dharamsala-based filmmaking couple Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam, honoring their decades-long activism to regain Tibet's autonomy. From Thailand's ghostly blockbuster Pee Mak to Jazz in Love, a portrait of gay love in the Philippines; from Rithy Panh's revelatory look at surviving the Khmer Rouge in The Missing Picture to Japan's lexical entry for the Oscars, The Great Passage; from coeds in collision in Farah Goes Bang to the Cannes-conquering Ilo Ilo, about a silently suffering maid in Singapore-CAAMFest offers us a world of difference.