Junk Head (Japan, 2021) [NYAFF 2021]
Film is a collaborative art form, and when it comes to uniquely individual achievements, they are few and far between. Even the most singular auteurs...
Ninja Girl (Japan, 2021) [NYAFF 2021]
In a montage stitched together by simple cuts that opens Yu Irie’s Ninja Girl, the quietness and elegance of a countryside landscape unfold in long...
City of Lost Things (Taiwan, 2020) [NYAFF 2021]
Six years after his politically subversive Salute! Sun Yat-Sen (2014), acclaimed Taiwanese writer-director Yee Chih-yen returns to feature filmmaking with City of Lost Things. Surprisingly,...
Last of the Wolves (Japan, 2021) [NYAFF 2021]
Last of the Wolves is director Kazuya Shiraishi’s sequel to his well-received 2018 yakuza film, The Blood of Wolves. Although he returns to the crime...
A Song for You (China, 2020) [NYAFF 2021]
Sound designer/recordist and composer Dukar Tserang, who has been a close musical collaborator of filmmakers Pema Tseden and Gyal Sonthar, now stands alongside his aforementioned...
Anima (China, 2020) [NYAFF 2021]
For her debut feature, which took two years to shoot in challenging weather conditions in Moerdaoga National Forest of Inner Mongolia, Cao Jinling crafts an...
Tiong Bahru Social Club (Singapore, 2020) [NYAFF 2021]
Tan Bee Thiam is perhaps best known for having established the Asian Film Archive in Singapore in 2005. But with his directorial debut Tiong Bahru...
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”...