The comedy Seoul Searching opens this years’ festival. Photo: Seoul Searching LLC

More than 30 features will play at this week’s Asian Film Festival of Dallas. They represent only about 1 percent of the films David Gibson watched in preparation over the last year. This week, we talk to the programmer of this year’s event about a few firsts for the festival.

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