24th New York Asian Film Festival

July 11-27, 2025

Photo: © 2025 Mai Huyen Chi

World Premiere

The River Runs Still

Lụa

The River Runs Still (Lụa) offers a brief glimpse into the lives of some stateless boat women who find themselves trapped, belonging nowhere, and with few opportunities to break the cycle. The intention behind the film is to create a fictional space and a time where a woman like them lives and breathes, dreams and breaks, loses, and fights again.

Director: Mai Huyen Chi
Producer: John Badalu
Cast: Nhi Phương Lê, Anh Hoàng Nguyễn
Languages: Vietnamese with English Subtitles
2024; 14 min.; Digital
Country: Vietnam

SCHEDULE:

Wednesday July 16, 4:00pm
Film at Lincoln Center

Shorts displaying the nuances and diversity of Asian female representation in a way that has never been seen before!