A Leg (Taiwan, 2020) [NYAFF 2021]
A Leg, a dark comedy by novice Taiwanese director Chang Yao-sheng, follows a rather unlikely plotline: a husband dies an unexpected death, then his severed...
The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn’t Kill (Japan, 2021) [NYAFF 2021]
Films based on manga are ubiquitous in Japan but few have qualities that gain the traction to make it onto the radar of global audiences...
Babi (Malaysia, 2020) [NYAFF 2021]
For his latest feature film, rapper and filmmaker Namewee (the stage name of Wee Meng Chee) revisits a disturbing real-life “never reported” but “never forgotten”...
Raging Fire (China/Hong Kong, 2021) [NYAFF 2021]
Following his comedic turn in Enter the Fat Dragon (2020), martial arts star Donnie Yen gets deadly serious again to play a resolutely straight-arrow Hong...
Escape from Mogadishu (South Korea, 2021) [NYAFF 2021]
South Korean cinema is no longer the producer of small and idiosyncratic films that have to seep through the cracks of international cinema. It hasn’t...
New York Asian Film Festival 2021 Announces Opening Film, Additional Titles and Variety Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient
The New York Asian Film Foundation and Film at Lincoln Center are delighted to unveil further highlights of the 2021 New York Asian Film Festival...