22nd New York Asian Film Festival

Jul 14-30, 2023

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North American Premiere

Geylang

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One fateful night in Geylang, Singapore’s red-light district, a beautiful young prostitute's sudden disappearance leads her foul-mouthed pimp, ragamuffin cigarette-seller boyfriend, and a local social-outreach lawyer on a gore-filled wild goose chase. As the proverbial damsel in distress and a nefarious bag of money are both chased around town, each of our antiheroes’ odysseys crosses paths in post-postmodern crime-pulp madness told in illuminating temporal shifts. The action is fast and mean with a profanely dark sense of humor matched by gratuitously macabre overtones. This is a wild pop-art genre joyride seething with the tropically hot melting pot flavors of Singapore put through a riotous Moebius strip of cinematic influences.

Director: Boi Kwong
Cast: Mark Lee, Patricia Lin, Sheila Sim, Gary Lau, Shane Mardjuki, Jason Ho
Languages: Mandarin, Hokkien, English with English subtitles
2022; 87 min.

SCHEDULE:

Friday July 21, 6:00pm
Film at Lincoln Center

Intro & Q&A with director Boi Kwong and Actor Jason Ho.

Boi Kwong
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Boi Kwong is a Singaporean film producer/director and seasoned educator with more than 15 years of experience. A graduate of the Curtin University of Technology, Australia, he received the Special Jury Prize at the Singapore Film Festival’s Silver Screen Awards for his debut short film Wait (2000). After a stint teaching full-time, he made his feature directorial debut with The Days (2008), which was nominated for the New Asian Talent Award at the Shanghai International Film Festival, Asian Tigers at the CPH:PIX Copenhagen International Film Festival and Best Cinematography at the Singapore International Film Festival. It was also the highest grossing independent film of 2008 in Singapore. Geylang is Boi’s second feature film and was nominated at the 59th Golden Horse Awards for Best Action Choreography, and selected for the International Film Festival of Rotterdam and the Singapore International Film Festival. As a producer, Boi’s credits include We Not Naughty (2012), Zombiepura (NYAFF 2019) and Number 1 (2020).