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.
Three girls in a dead-end Japanese town dare each other into the kind of get-rich-quick scheme that can only end badly. Takashi Koyama’s acidly funny, teeth-on-edge teen crime story about wanting out of nowhere-Japan stars Sara Minami, Natsuki Deguchi, and Mizuki Yoshida.
A Valentine’s Day bus explosion exposes a forbidden love story in Herman Yau’s furious Hong Kong crime tragedy, where social despair turns violently, devastatingly intimate.
A Valentine’s Day bus explosion exposes a forbidden love story in Herman Yau’s furious Hong Kong crime tragedy, where social despair turns violently, devastatingly intimate.
Following Béatrice Courte, a Columbia scholar, into the analog archives of New York City’s historic libraries, Chronovisor is a witty literary mystery about an academic side quest into the story of a disputed Vatican time-viewing device. Shot on 16mm, it unearths an elaborate web of conjecture and conspiracy reaching all the way up to the highest echelons of the Vatican.
The singular Cornish filmmaker Mark Jenkin (Enys Men) brings his distinctive and bold storytelling approach to his most expansive work yet. In a tiny, sparsely populated fishing village, a boat that had been lost at sea 30 years ago, the Rose of Nevada, suddenly reappears portside, fully intact and without its long-missing crew.
Amidst the jagged cliffs and summery, sun-kissed shores of Vigo, on the Atlantic coast of Galicia in Spain, 18-year-old Marina has arrived on a deeply personal mission to meet her paternal grandparents and extended family for the first time. Alternating between 2004 and the early 1980s, achingly dramatizing the processes of creating new memories and holding onto fleeting ones, Carla Simón's delicate, naturalistic, and poignantly autobiographical film proves she is an essential voice in international cinema.
The 25th New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF) is a landmark anniversary edition celebrating 25 years of championing the filmmakers, stars, and cinematic movements that have shaped the future of Asian cinema.
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.
Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, the New York Asian Film Festival returns with another exciting lineup full of both discoveries from exciting new voices and massive hits from Asian countries that have been primarily unseen in the U.S. and New York.
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.
The 25th New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF) is a landmark anniversary edition celebrating 25 years of championing the filmmakers, stars, and cinematic movements that have shaped the future of Asian cinema.
Following Béatrice Courte, a Columbia scholar, into the analog archives of New York City’s historic libraries, Chronovisor is a witty literary mystery about an academic side quest into the story of a disputed Vatican time-viewing device. Shot on 16mm, it unearths an elaborate web of conjecture and conspiracy reaching all the way up to the highest echelons of the Vatican.
The singular Cornish filmmaker Mark Jenkin (Enys Men) brings his distinctive and bold storytelling approach to his most expansive work yet. In a tiny, sparsely populated fishing village, a boat that had been lost at sea 30 years ago, the Rose of Nevada, suddenly reappears portside, fully intact and without its long-missing crew.
Amidst the jagged cliffs and summery, sun-kissed shores of Vigo, on the Atlantic coast of Galicia in Spain, 18-year-old Marina has arrived on a deeply personal mission to meet her paternal grandparents and extended family for the first time. Alternating between 2004 and the early 1980s, achingly dramatizing the processes of creating new memories and holding onto fleeting ones, Carla Simón's delicate, naturalistic, and poignantly autobiographical film proves she is an essential voice in international cinema.
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.
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.
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.
The 25th New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF) is a landmark anniversary edition celebrating 25 years of championing the filmmakers, stars, and cinematic movements that have shaped the future of Asian cinema.
Three girls in a dead-end Japanese town dare each other into the kind of get-rich-quick scheme that can only end badly. Takashi Koyama’s acidly funny, teeth-on-edge teen crime story about wanting out of nowhere-Japan stars Sara Minami, Natsuki Deguchi, and Mizuki Yoshida.
Following Béatrice Courte, a Columbia scholar, into the analog archives of New York City’s historic libraries, Chronovisor is a witty literary mystery about an academic side quest into the story of a disputed Vatican time-viewing device. Shot on 16mm, it unearths an elaborate web of conjecture and conspiracy reaching all the way up to the highest echelons of the Vatican.
The singular Cornish filmmaker Mark Jenkin (Enys Men) brings his distinctive and bold storytelling approach to his most expansive work yet. In a tiny, sparsely populated fishing village, a boat that had been lost at sea 30 years ago, the Rose of Nevada, suddenly reappears portside, fully intact and without its long-missing crew.
Amidst the jagged cliffs and summery, sun-kissed shores of Vigo, on the Atlantic coast of Galicia in Spain, 18-year-old Marina has arrived on a deeply personal mission to meet her paternal grandparents and extended family for the first time. Alternating between 2004 and the early 1980s, achingly dramatizing the processes of creating new memories and holding onto fleeting ones, Carla Simón's delicate, naturalistic, and poignantly autobiographical film proves she is an essential voice in international cinema.
A Valentine’s Day bus explosion exposes a forbidden love story in Herman Yau’s furious Hong Kong crime tragedy, where social despair turns violently, devastatingly intimate.
A Valentine’s Day bus explosion exposes a forbidden love story in Herman Yau’s furious Hong Kong crime tragedy, where social despair turns violently, devastatingly intimate.
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.
In 16th-century Japan, Lord Murashige (Masahiro Motoki) turns against Oda, the warlord he once served, and is besieged inside his own castle, where inexplicable crimes begin to look to Murashige and his frightened advisors like signs of divine judgment. Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s stately jidaigeki is a tense and metaphysical whodunit with the director’s characteristic philosophical overtones, bringing the winding investigations of Cure and Serpent’s Path into a meticulously composed period piece about the manipulation of terror.
In 16th-century Japan, Lord Murashige (Masahiro Motoki) turns against Oda, the warlord he once served, and is besieged inside his own castle, where inexplicable crimes begin to look to Murashige and his frightened advisors like signs of divine judgment. Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s stately jidaigeki is a tense and metaphysical whodunit with the director’s characteristic philosophical overtones, bringing the winding investigations of Cure and Serpent’s Path into a meticulously composed period piece about the manipulation of terror.
In 16th-century Japan, Lord Murashige (Masahiro Motoki) turns against Oda, the warlord he once served, and is besieged inside his own castle, where inexplicable crimes begin to look to Murashige and his frightened advisors like signs of divine judgment. Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s stately jidaigeki is a tense and metaphysical whodunit with the director’s characteristic philosophical overtones, bringing the winding investigations of Cure and Serpent’s Path into a meticulously composed period piece about the manipulation of terror.
In 16th-century Japan, Lord Murashige (Masahiro Motoki) turns against Oda, the warlord he once served, and is besieged inside his own castle, where inexplicable crimes begin to look to Murashige and his frightened advisors like signs of divine judgment. Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s stately jidaigeki is a tense and metaphysical whodunit with the director’s characteristic philosophical overtones, bringing the winding investigations of Cure and Serpent’s Path into a meticulously composed period piece about the manipulation of terror.
Willem Dafoe lends his delicate gravitas to the role of Ed Saxberger, a once-upon-a-time New York poet who has worked at a post office for nearly four decades, his work now largely forgotten. Kent Jones’s thoughtful and marvelously witty second feature adapts Arthur Schnitzler’s recently rediscovered novella Late Fame for a wistful yet unromantic look at a lost idea of downtown New York.
New York City’s premium showcase for the best in boundary-pushing horror (and horror-adjacent) cinema from around the globe, premiering new works alongside special presentations of spine-tingling classics and rediscoveries conjured from the dark recesses of midnight-movie lore.
A ’90s kids’ TV show descends into gore-spattered mayhem when its charismatic host turns violent in the surreal, gleefully deranged feature debut from Casper Kelly, creator of 2014 viral sensation Too Many Cooks.
Dispatched to a fog-shrouded isle on a mission to gather audio “unprecedented in film history,” a sound recordist stumbles upon a mysterious missing person’s case that may or may not have something to do with spooky local rumors of a phantom sea captain.
Director Daniel Goldhaber and screenwriter Isa Mazzei anticipated our present moment with razor-sharp prescience in their first collaboration, an unnerving fable about a camgirl’s harrowing fight to wrest back control of her online persona from an invisible adversary.
The munchies and murder don’t mix… or do they? Chaos and cannibalism ensue when four stoner friends discover a peculiar strain of weed at the middle-of-nowhere rental property where they’ve decamped for a toked-out New Year’s retreat.
A mom-to-be’s stubborn conviction that she alone knows what’s best for her unborn child is put to the gruesomest of tests when alarming complications arise during a home delivery in director Raymond Creamer’s diabolical spin on prenatal horror.
Director Daniel Goldhaber and screenwriter Isa Mazzei anticipated our present moment with razor-sharp prescience in their first collaboration, an unnerving fable about a camgirl’s harrowing fight to wrest back control of her online persona from an invisible adversary.
The harrowing sixth feature from bilingual director Dave Boyle—his first shot entirely in Japan—follows a mild-mannered psychic medium who gets more than she bargained for when she accepts a job at an isolated hotel plagued by a hostile supernatural presence.
Director Daniel Goldhaber and screenwriter Isa Mazzei anticipated our present moment with razor-sharp prescience in their first collaboration, an unnerving fable about a camgirl’s harrowing fight to wrest back control of her online persona from an invisible adversary.
The munchies and murder don’t mix… or do they? Chaos and cannibalism ensue when four stoner friends discover a peculiar strain of weed at the middle-of-nowhere rental property where they’ve decamped for a toked-out New Year’s retreat.
Fraught family dynamics make for treacherous emotional terrain during a young woman’s long-delayed visit to her childhood home, where she’s alarmed to learn that her estranged father has been dead for three days—a revelation to which her mother seems strangely indifferent.
Brian Damude’s pitch-black, no-holds-barred Canuxploitation classic traces the sociopathic machinations of a husband who leaves his wife for dead after a car accident, angling to cash in on her inheritance.
Forty years on, John McNaughton’s unflinching, profoundly bleak character study of an itinerant ex-con on a killing spree—loosely inspired by the real-life case of Henry Lee Lucas—has lost none of its power to shock, unsettle, and disturb.
A recovering alcoholic who spends his days tending bar inside a drab suburban supermarket begins to suspect he’s being stalked by his own evil twin in the mordant first feature from production designer-turned-director Josef Brandl.
Drawing inspiration from traditional folklore, the “Western-horror” debut feature from South African cinematographer Meekaaeel Adam is a haunting, haunted meditation on the brutal legacies of settler colonialism.
A mom-to-be’s stubborn conviction that she alone knows what’s best for her unborn child is put to the gruesomest of tests when alarming complications arise during a home delivery in director Raymond Creamer’s diabolical spin on prenatal horror.
Adapted by screenwriter Martin Algus from his own 2018 novel, Evar Anvelt’s directorial debut is a pulse-pounding thriller pitting a porn-addicted family man against a hardened con artist whose seemingly foolproof blackmail scheme devolves into a dog-eat-dog fight for survival.
Cronenbergian body horror is deployed to darkly satirical ends in Carlos Conceição’s English-language debut, the noir-inflected story of an anti-corporate activist who becomes involved in a cult-like underworld of black-market plastic surgery.
Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick co-direct and star alongside their real-life children, Sosie and Travis Bacon, in a campy send-up of B-movie slasher flicks that doubles as an ode to the scrappy resourcefulness and DIY ingenuity of small-town microbudget filmmaking.
The harrowing sixth feature from bilingual director Dave Boyle—his first shot entirely in Japan—follows a mild-mannered psychic medium who gets more than she bargained for when she accepts a job at an isolated hotel plagued by a hostile supernatural presence.
When an idealistic young woman accepts a position living and working on a regenerative farm, she and her partner must navigate the commune’s unorthodox—and increasingly ominous—practices, under the watchful eye of their unnervingly intense leader.
Made in the wake of his Cannes Grand Prix winner Tilaï, the great Burkinabé writer-director Idrissa Ouédraogo’s fifth feature begins with a botched service-station robbery and follows its lone survivor home, where a suitcase of stolen cash begins to look, at least from a distance, like providence. Ouédraogo deploys the film’s thriller shape to examine what guilt does to a man once his material life begins to flourish, and how a community comes to share, profit from, and finally question the lie on which that prosperity rests.
Following Béatrice Courte, a Columbia scholar, into the analog archives of New York City’s historic libraries, Chronovisor is a witty literary mystery about an academic side quest into the story of a disputed Vatican time-viewing device. Shot on 16mm, it unearths an elaborate web of conjecture and conspiracy reaching all the way up to the highest echelons of the Vatican.
František Vláčil’s staggering medieval epic, adapted from Vladislav Vančura’s landmark modernist novel, plunges into the blood-soaked borderlands of 13th-century Bohemia amid the uneasy transition from paganism to Christianity. Frequently hailed as the greatest Czech film ever made, Marketa Lazarová begins when the brutal Kozlík clan ambushes a noble procession and carries off a bishop-to-be, bringing the king’s soldiers down upon their forest stronghold.
Presented by Film at Lincoln Center in partnership with Rolex, the 64th New York Film Festival (NYFF64) will take place from September 25 through October 12, and is an annual celebration of the most significant films from around the world.
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.
Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, the New York Asian Film Festival returns with another exciting lineup full of both discoveries from exciting new voices and massive hits from Asian countries that have been primarily unseen in the U.S. and New York.
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.
The 25th New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF) is a landmark anniversary edition celebrating 25 years of championing the filmmakers, stars, and cinematic movements that have shaped the future of Asian cinema.
Following Béatrice Courte, a Columbia scholar, into the analog archives of New York City’s historic libraries, Chronovisor is a witty literary mystery about an academic side quest into the story of a disputed Vatican time-viewing device. Shot on 16mm, it unearths an elaborate web of conjecture and conspiracy reaching all the way up to the highest echelons of the Vatican.
The singular Cornish filmmaker Mark Jenkin (Enys Men) brings his distinctive and bold storytelling approach to his most expansive work yet. In a tiny, sparsely populated fishing village, a boat that had been lost at sea 30 years ago, the Rose of Nevada, suddenly reappears portside, fully intact and without its long-missing crew.
Amidst the jagged cliffs and summery, sun-kissed shores of Vigo, on the Atlantic coast of Galicia in Spain, 18-year-old Marina has arrived on a deeply personal mission to meet her paternal grandparents and extended family for the first time. Alternating between 2004 and the early 1980s, achingly dramatizing the processes of creating new memories and holding onto fleeting ones, Carla Simón's delicate, naturalistic, and poignantly autobiographical film proves she is an essential voice in international cinema.
The 25th New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF) is a landmark anniversary edition celebrating 25 years of championing the filmmakers, stars, and cinematic movements that have shaped the future of Asian cinema.
Following Béatrice Courte, a Columbia scholar, into the analog archives of New York City’s historic libraries, Chronovisor is a witty literary mystery about an academic side quest into the story of a disputed Vatican time-viewing device. Shot on 16mm, it unearths an elaborate web of conjecture and conspiracy reaching all the way up to the highest echelons of the Vatican.