A stage director’s farewell production turns vicious when his movie-star ex muscles into the lead role. Keane T.K. Wong’s screwball debut, mentored by Derek Yee, stars Stephen Fung, Angela Yuen, Myolie Wu, and Chrissie Chau.
Game on! Girl power gets a kick in the joystick as Hong Kong’s all-female esports underdogs turn a cha chaan teng diner into a pixel-bright comeback arena.
A murdered detective opens the way to a nine-year-old kidnapping case in Tetsuya Nakashima’s dark ensemble mystery of family wreckage and buried guilt.
Longman Leung’s Cold War blockbuster prequel rewinds to 1994 and old-school Hong Kong cinema, where a tycoon kidnapping unleashes cops, spies, triads, ransom panic, and colonial paranoia in a city changing hands.
This year’s program features more than 50 filmmakers, ranging from acclaimed veterans to exciting new voices, who will be on hand for post-screening Q&As and special appearances.
Andy Lau’s mahjong master gets both lucky and cursed—and romantically clobbered by a gloriously volatile Gigi Leung—in Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai’s tile-drunk comedy of bad hands and worse habits.
The 50th Hong Kong Film Festival’s Closing Film, Philip Yung’s follow-up to the heartbreaking Papa centers on a trans woman who leaves mainland China for Hong Kong’s back alleys, falls in love, and explores the dangerous freedom to remake herself.
A lost white dog searches for home across 10 years and three human lives he changes in this moving three-director story of love and loyalty from GDH, the studio behind How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies.
From Song Lang director Leon Le, this hushed, beautifully composed chamber drama set in 1985 Saigon centers on a romance between a young translator and a widowed cook from the defeated South.
This year’s program features more than 50 filmmakers, ranging from acclaimed veterans to exciting new voices, who will be on hand for post-screening Q&As and special appearances.
Three loves, at three ages, in three cities—17 in Macau, 22 in Taiwan, and 34 in Hong Kong—trace a queer filmmaker’s path from first crush to hard-won self-acceptance. Tracy Choi adapts her own story into warm, unguarded cinema.
A missing occult-magazine editor’s collection of urban legends points toward one terrifying place. The director of Noroi turns a viral Japanese web novel into found-document dread at its most unnerving and entertaining.
Two young Chinese expats and aspiring filmmakers drift apart when the pandemic strands her in Los Angeles and leaves him chasing his first feature in New York. Writer-director Yan Kunao, who also plays the lead, finds dry comedy in no-budget filmmaking and diaspora limbo.
This year’s program features more than 50 filmmakers, ranging from acclaimed veterans to exciting new voices, who will be on hand for post-screening Q&As and special appearances.
Jane Campion’s ravishing, Palme d’Or–winning breakthrough, starring Holly Hunter and Anna Paquin in Oscar-winning roles, returns to the big screen in a new 4K restoration—and still feels startlingly alive.
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s birth, FLC partners with Piper-Heidsieck Champagne for a special archival 35mm screening of Howard Hawks’s classic, followed by a reception with Champagne, hors d’oeuvres, and a fundraiser auction.
This Film Comment program showcasing films renowned critic John Berger shaped, critiqued, or inspired includes a 35mm print of Pasolini’s rarely seen “furious screed against the Western bourgeois world and its hunger for war” and the North American premiere of Timothy Neat’s 1993 feature starring Berger.
Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s stately, meticulously composed period drama, set in 16th-century Japan, is a tense and metaphysical whodunit with the director’s characteristic philosophical overtones.
Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s stately, meticulously composed period drama, set in 16th-century Japan, is a tense and metaphysical whodunit with the director’s characteristic philosophical overtones.
Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s stately, meticulously composed period drama, set in 16th-century Japan, is a tense and metaphysical whodunit with the director’s characteristic philosophical overtones.
Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s stately, meticulously composed period drama, set in 16th-century Japan, is a tense and metaphysical whodunit with the director’s characteristic philosophical overtones.
In Kent Jones’s marvelously witty second feature, a once-upon-a-time New York poet (Willem Dafoe) gets an ego boost when he is welcomed into the world of an emerging literary salon, but must reckon with the authenticity of his newfound circle of twentysomething admirers.
This August, Film at Lincoln Center is excited to present the 14th edition of New York City’s premium showcase for the best in boundary-pushing horror (and horror-adjacent) cinema from around the globe.
Winner of the Silver Bear at the 1993 Berlinale and newly restored in 4K, the great Burkinabé writer-director Idrissa Ouédraogo’s Samba Traoré remains one of the decisive works of African cinema.
Inspired by the true story of a “fake” invention, Kevin Walker and Jack Auen’s Chronovisor follows a Columbia professor deep into a Borgesian labyrinth of textual clues pointing to a time-travel device rumored to have been suppressed by the Vatican.
Frequently hailed as the greatest Czech film ever made, František Vláčil’s staggering medieval epic, shot in stark widescreen black and white, plunges into the blood-soaked borderlands of 13th-century Bohemia amid the uneasy transition from paganism to Christianity.
This year’s program features more than 50 filmmakers, ranging from acclaimed veterans to exciting new voices, who will be on hand for post-screening Q&As and special appearances.
Andy Lau’s mahjong master gets both lucky and cursed—and romantically clobbered by a gloriously volatile Gigi Leung—in Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai’s tile-drunk comedy of bad hands and worse habits.
The 50th Hong Kong Film Festival’s Closing Film, Philip Yung’s follow-up to the heartbreaking Papa centers on a trans woman who leaves mainland China for Hong Kong’s back alleys, falls in love, and explores the dangerous freedom to remake herself.
A lost white dog searches for home across 10 years and three human lives he changes in this moving three-director story of love and loyalty from GDH, the studio behind How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies.
From Song Lang director Leon Le, this hushed, beautifully composed chamber drama set in 1985 Saigon centers on a romance between a young translator and a widowed cook from the defeated South.
This year’s program features more than 50 filmmakers, ranging from acclaimed veterans to exciting new voices, who will be on hand for post-screening Q&As and special appearances.
This year’s program features more than 50 filmmakers, ranging from acclaimed veterans to exciting new voices, who will be on hand for post-screening Q&As and special appearances.
This year’s program features more than 50 filmmakers, ranging from acclaimed veterans to exciting new voices, who will be on hand for post-screening Q&As and special appearances.
This year’s program features more than 50 filmmakers, ranging from acclaimed veterans to exciting new voices, who will be on hand for post-screening Q&As and special appearances.
Three loves, at three ages, in three cities—17 in Macau, 22 in Taiwan, and 34 in Hong Kong—trace a queer filmmaker’s path from first crush to hard-won self-acceptance. Tracy Choi adapts her own story into warm, unguarded cinema.
A missing occult-magazine editor’s collection of urban legends points toward one terrifying place. The director of Noroi turns a viral Japanese web novel into found-document dread at its most unnerving and entertaining.