24th New York Asian Film Festival

July 11-27, 2025

Photo: © 1 girl infinite, 2025

North American Premiere

1 Girl Infinite

Yin Jia has built her entire world around one person: Tong Tong, who took her in after her parents abandoned her. They survive on stolen food and fierce devotion until Tong Tong chooses the escape offered by Chen Wen, a charismatic dealer. As jealousy transforms into something far more dangerous, Yin Jia risks everything to keep Tong Tong by her side. Writer-director-star Lilly Hu transforms her lived experience into a raw portrait of queer desire in a society where family structures have collapsed. Shot handheld through Changsha's beauty salons and internet cafés, the film's color-drenched authenticity builds to a devastating question: what remains when obsession consumes everything—including the person you're trying to save?

Director: Lilly Hu
Cast: Lilly Hu, Chen Xuanyu
Languages: Mandarin with English subtitles
2024; 102 min.
Country: USA

SCHEDULE:

Saturday July 19, 12:15pm
Film at Lincoln Center

Intro and Q&A with director/actress Lilly Hu

Lilly Hu
Jiaying Hu

Lilly Hu was born in southern China and studied filmmaking at the National Taiwan University of the Arts. Her first film was a short documentary about the living conditions of female artists in Chengdu, made for the International Chinese Women’s Film Festival in 2017. Her award-winning American Film Institute thesis film Cold Wall (2021), continues this exploration of female issues: centering around the desperate acts of a young Chinese woman experiencing an unplanned pregnancy while studying abroad alone in Los Angeles. Her debut feature 1 Girl Infinite (2024) is a Chinese queer drama with Academy Award-winning screenwriter Eric Roth serving as executive producer.