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.

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 Hong Kong housewife secretly signs up for a pole dancing class and suddenly finds she has stories to keep straight, a body to retrain, and a respectability act that is falling apart. Catherine Chau headlines Joey Wu’s bright, nimble comedy.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Met: Live in HD season kicks off with Mozart’s satirical comedy of fickle young love, one of the composer’s most sublime creations.

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.

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.

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.

At an exclusive golf club outside Manila, a teenage tee girl enters a paradise of perfect lawns and polite humiliations. Rafael Manuel’s debut, executive produced by Jia Zhangke and winner of the Sundance Film Festival’s Special Jury Award for Creative Vision, is a savage satire of capitalism, building suspense from poisonous details.

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.

Connect with fellow filmmakers from across Asia and the U.S. at NYAFF’s Filmmakers Night! This special gathering, made possible with generous support from Sapporo, offers a great chance for both emerging and established filmmakers to share ideas, make new connections, build community, and celebrate Asian and Asian American filmmaking.

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.

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 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.

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.

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 teenager buried in debt drifts into the shadow economy that destroyed his family, taking a criminal gig in the woods. Then comes the bear. Eisuke Naito’s gruesome, bleakly funny, yamibaito creature feature bites hard.

The latest documentary feature from Romanian New Wave master Corneliu Porumboiu is a hilarious and politically incisive portrait of a bureaucrat who dreams of radically revising the rules of the beautiful game, in a bid to revolutionize the world’s most popular sport.

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.

A widow tries to close her life down, but when a piano and a Korean adoptee conductor turn up, they begin reopening it with unexpected results. Kim Hye-ok and Justin H. Min (The Umbrella Academy, After Yang) star in Kim Jin-yu’s elegant drama.

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.

A broke director reopens a haunted theater, revives the Taiwanese opera his father abandoned, and falls for its leading lady—who’s been dead for 18 years. Chen Ta-pu packs supernatural comedy and backstage romance into a ghost story with laughter and tears.

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.

Puccini’s exhilarating drama of the Wild West returns in a new staging by celebrated British director Richard Jones, marking the company’s first new production of La Fanciulla del West in more than 30 years.

Three estranged friends, once bound by a shared dream of acting, reunite by chance for one night in Taipei in Kuo Cheng-chui’s warm, melancholy drama about friendship and words left unspoken.

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.

Two of opera’s most extraordinary artists return to The Met: Live in HD for Verdi’s thrilling take on the immortal Shakespearean tale of the scheming couple determined to seize power at any cost.

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Following her radiant performance in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette—which garnered raves for “high notes that spun like liquid gold … Sierra touched the operatic firmament” (The New York Times)—superstar soprano Nadine Sierra takes on another alluring French heroine, the irresistible title character of Massenet’s passionate drama, live from the Met stage to cinemas worldwide.

One of NYAFF’s signature events returns! Join us for an evening with live performance, food, and drinks to celebrate Japanese cinema and culture! Free and open to all FLC and NYAFF members and NYAFF 2026 ticket holders.

Chung Ji-young’s intense, searching drama, which had its world premiere at this year’s Berlinale, links a teenager ashamed of his name and his mother (Yeom Hye-ran) to the buried trauma of the 1948 Jeju massacre.

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.

Dayo Wong runs East Tsim Sha Tsui’s last great hostess club. Then Sammi Cheng storms in as his ex-wife and the new CEO, with 30 days to save the fading palace. Jack Ng’s hit makes its international premiere in a rougher, seedier Director’s Cut.

One of today’s leading dramatic tenors, Brian Jagde takes on the tour-de-force title role of what many consider the ultimate Italian opera, live to cinemas worldwide.

A profound philosophical meditation on compassion and reconciliation, this transcendent rendering of a medieval knight’s heroic quest for the Holy Grail returns to the big screen in François Girard’s celebrated production, a “thoughtful and intrepid staging, full of striking imagery” (The New York Times).

In this delicate and poignantly autobiographical film from Carla Simón (Alcarràs, NYFF60), 18-year-old Marina negotiates her idealized memories of her parents, whom she lost at a young age, when she arrives in sun-kissed Galicia to meet her extended family for the first time.

The singular Cornish filmmaker Mark Jenkin (Enys Men, NYFF60) immerses the viewer in the uncanny environments of the small towns along the coast of Cornwall, here spinning a sci-fi-tinged tale of dislocation and regeneration starring George MacKay and Callum Turner.

Sacred, scandalous, and irresistibly alluring, Saint-Saëns’s spectacular take on the biblical hero of legendary strength and the seductive Philistine whose beauty overpowers him returns in the Met’s larger-than-life production.

Hong Kong screen legend Stephen Chow directs and co-stars in this high-octane, cult-favorite genre mashup, in which a down-and-out footballer joins forces with an idealistic kung fu master in hopes of leading their ragtag team of Shaolin monks to victory on the pitch.

Amanda Bynes and Channing Tatum headline this millennial rom-com classic, a Clueless-style update of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night that follows a talented teen athlete who sets out to prove herself by joining an all-boys high school soccer team—while disguised as her twin brother.

This program of short films includes Altay Ulan Yang’s Hyena, Anatole Sloan’s Our Child, Shen Chieh Tsang’s No Place Like Home, Hao Zhou’s Correct Me If I’m Wrong, Zéré Turlykhanova’s Coffin Therapy, and Surya Balakrishnan’s The Housekeeper.

Following his smash-hit company debut with The Hours, composer Kevin Puts returns to the Met with his Pulitzer Prize–winning first opera, inspired by the true events of the 1914 Christmas truce, when soldiers spontaneously set aside the horrors of the First World War and crossed the trenches to mingle, exchange gifts, and sing carols with the enemy.

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.

The Sex Pistols hit, Tokyo calls, and a countryside photographer finds himself inside Japan’s punk explosion. Tomorowo Taguchi and writer Kankuro Kudo resurrect the Tokyo Rockers as scrappy DIY legends.

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.

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.

Peng Fei’s sweeping, idealistic epic, which premiered in competition at the Tokyo International Film Festival, follows a stubborn Northeast Chinese worker chasing his late father’s dream of flying, from the reform era’s dance halls to one final ascent.

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.

Searching for his long-lost chat room crush Zelda, a Hong Kong chef cooks his way through four dates, four Zeldas, and one deliciously awkward reckoning with love, memory, and appetite in Amos Why (Far Far Away, NYAFF 2022) and Frankie Chung’s funny, tender romance.

Among the most disarmingly funny and cathartic entries in Tsai Ming-liang’s filmography, The Hole sets one of cinema’s strangest and most tender end-of-the-world romances in a crumbling Taipei apartment block.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Independent horror maestro Larry Fessenden returns to Scary Movies for a special 25th anniversary screening of his landmark 2001 chiller about a close-knit family’s encounter with vengeful forces of nature—human or otherwise—during a snowbound upstate vacation.