THE annual Asian American International Film Festival kicks off tomorrow at 7 p.m. and continues Saturday, Sunday, July 28 and 29 at Florence Gould Hall, 55 E. 59th St.

Scheduled are feature films, documentaries and shorts by Asian filmmakers and directors from the United States, Korea, Japan, China and India.

The opening night film, Johnnie To’s “Running Out of Time” (1999), starring Hong Kong film hunk Andy Lau, is about a dying criminal trying to take down his last score.

Also screening will be John H. Lee’s “The Cut Runs Deep” (2000), a coming-of-age drama set in New York City, centering on 16-year-old Ben, a half-Hungarian and half-Korean boy who tries to fit in with his Korean street gang.

From India, Krutin Patel’s “ABCD” (1999) is an excellent look at first-generation Indian siblings, Raj and Nina, who have lost touch with their ethnic background after growing up in America. Rebelling against their conservative Hindu mother, the brother and sister realize that they are too American for traditional Indian customs.

“Chinatown” (1999), by Eric Lin, focuses on a girl who is caught in the struggle over an attempt to ban the sale of live animals in Chinatown.

The festival closes with Shu Lea Cheang’s “I.K.U.” (2000), which focuses on how the computerization of the world creates the next sexual revolution.

For more information, call (212) 989-1422.