SFIAAFF: <i>Sobhraj</i>

As much as we were ready to love this slender (70 minutes) documentary, we bristled at the introducer's assertion that the reason for the inclusion of this film in the festival was because "you always hear that there aren't any Asian serial killers" (part of the festival's thematic exploration of male identity?) Between the relatively recent Charles Ng case in the Bay Area and the fact that even former FBI profiler Robert Ressler freely admits that Asian serial killers are not an anomaly, this seemed like a stretch to us.