The Asian Film Festival of Dallas turned 25 this year, and it has earned every candle on its cake. That gap is exactly what the inaugural Dallas Asian American Film Festival (DAAFF) wants to close. The festival is the work of the Dallas Asian American Art Collective presented by the Bowdon Family Foundation. Dallas Asian American Film FestivalA festival director who caresHahn started the Dallas Asian American Art Collective in 2023 with a simple, stubborn question: “I’ve got a lot of artist friends, but not a lot of them are Asian. advertisement advertisementAmong the films screening at this year’s Dallas Asian American Film Festival is Kais Marz’s “Marsupial.”