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SKIN OF YOUTH (Ash Mayfair 2025)
Ash Mayfield is a sensuas visual poet who studied at NYU's Tisch school of the arts and whose first film The Third Wife was about a weathy 19th-century Vietnamese landowner who has multiple wives and servants. This new film is more like a cross between a surreal fable and a music video and tells the tubulent story of a trans peraon dreaming of surgery and her sexy and devoted cage boxer boyfriend in flashes of images. I'm spoiled because I recently watched Thien An Pham's 2024 Cannes Directors' Fortnight Caméra d'Or winner Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell, and it seemed a work on another level.
Showtimes:
Thursday July 24, 8:45pm
Film at Lincoln Center
2025 NYAFF Uncaged Award Nominee. Intro and Q&A with director Ash Mayfair. Feature preceded by short film: Colors Of The Sky's End
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I,THE SONG (Dechen Roder 2024)
In this handsome film from Bhutan a banished schoolteacher searches for her double who has gotten her into trouble by being caught in an intimate tape that went viral.
SCHEDULE:
Monday July 14, 3:00pm
Film at Lincoln Center
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GOWOK: JAVANESE KAMASUTRA (Hanung Bramantyo 2025)
From a commercially successful Indonesian director, an epic, generaion-crossing tale of sex training for well-born young males that leads to a tragic romance, intrigue, and revenge.
SCHEDULE:
Tuesday July 15, 6:00pm
LOOK Cinemas W57
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HANGING GARDEN (Toshiaki Toyoda 2005)
It's said Toyoda paved the way with this 'exposure' of a Japanese family for Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Tokyo Sonata, Kore-eda’s Still Walking, and Sion Sono’s Noriko’s Dinner Table. Maybe but maybe those have more depth; and before there was the Japanese cinematic master of the family, Ozu and there was also, in between, Yoshimitsu Morita's highly original 1983 Family Game so I don't know.
Showtimes
Fri, July 18
3:00 PM
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PAPA (Philip Yung 2024)
Based on real events in Hong Kong in 2010, a father (Sean Lau) strives to cope with the murder of his wife and daughter by his teenage son. The fragmented unreeling of the story takes us into the father's memory and experience in a subtle way.
Showtimes:
Special Screening
Saturday July 12, 6:00pm (Auditorium 4, LOOK Cinemas W57)
Saturday July 26, 3:30pm (Auditorium 4, LOOK Cinemas W57)
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9 SOULS (Toshiaki Toyada 2004)
Part of the 2025 NYAFF's feature on Japanese pop auteur Toshiaki Toyada, this is one of his signature films. It is a raucous, violent prison escape movie in which nine notorious criminals band together to break out of jail at the same time and go on a series of adventures. A tour de force.
SCHEDULE:
Sunday July 20, 3:15pm
LOOK Cinemas W57
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TRAVESTY (Baatar Baksukh 2024)
In a remote place in Mongolia, a hostage crisis occasions stark reflections on the way the country is governed at the very highest levels. Good visuals and atmosphere.
Showtime:
aturday July 26, 4:00pm
SVA Theatre
2025 NYAFF Uncaged Award Nominee. Intro and Q&A with director Baatar Batsukh and producers Alexa Khan and Trevor Doyle
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SUNSHINE (Antoinette Jadaone2024)
In the Philippines an Olympic level woman gymnast has an unwanted pregnancy. This is how she deals with it.
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RESURRECTION TRILOGY (Toshiaki Toyoda 2019, 2020, 2021)
After seeing these three stunning short, or shorter, films (WOLF CALLING, 16 mins., DAY OF DESTRUCTION, 56 mins., GO SEPPUKU YOURSELVES, 26 mins.), I began to totally grok this director and see why there is a cult surrounding him. They are stunning, fierce, and original. Highly recommended. They have been included in earlier JAPAN CUTS series, but worth repeating as part of the spotlight on Toyoda.
Saturday July 19, 1:30pm
LOOK Cinemas W57
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VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH 不赦之罪 (Anthony Wong 2024)
An anguished drama about a hypocritical, repressive Hong Kong paster whose daughter had committed suicide after being raped, and the young rapist who seeks forgiveness in his church after doing jail time. A different direction for Hong Kong cinema. Strong performances.
Showtime:
Sunday July 13, 3:30pm
Film at Lincoln Center
Intro and Q&A with directors Jeffrey Lam Sen, Antonio Tam and actor George Au.
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FAMILY MATTERS DIRECTOR PAN KE-YIN ACCEPTING THE BEST FILM AWARD AT NYAFF 2025
The 24th New York Asian Film Festival Ends and announces the 2025 Awards
FAMILY MATTERS TRAILER
The 24th New York Asian Film Festival closed with the international premiere of FLOWER GIRL and announced the awards. From Taiwan, FAMILY MATTERS won the Unhinged Award. Special Jury Awards went to SKIN OF YOUTH and GREEN WAVE. GOOD MORNING by Japan’s Nina Tsuji, ad SAMMI WHO CAN DETACH HIS BODY PARTS from Indonesia’s Rein Maychaelson and FINDING THE RAINBOW by South Korea’s Hwanga Yang were Shorts winners. International Premiere of FLOWER GIRL, Announcement of the Award Winners. The Audience Award went to THE WAY WE TALK (看我今天怎麼說).
July 27, 2025 the NTAFF's 24th edition ended its 17-day marathon with a closing night celebration at SVA Theater including winners announcements, a red carpet with Marizza Delgado, Miss New York, New York 2024, and the premiere of FLOWER GIRL with a director Q&A. The festival is held with screenings at Film at Lincoln Center, SVA Theatre, LOOK Cinemas W57, and the Korean Cultural Center New York. This year's was the biggest ever NYAFF, with more than 100 titles.
THE WAY WE TALK, reviewed on Filmleaf, is an engaging, significant from Hong Kong film that represents the issues of deaf people. It's good that it was singled out. FLOWER GIRL is not reviewed here. From the Philippines, it depicts a trans-phobic person unfavorably.
THE WAY WE TALK TRAILER
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MARCO NG, NEO YAO IN THE WAY WE TALK
