Voguing as survival, the runway as a battlefield. Chan Sze-Wei's debut follows three Southeast Asian ballroom trailblazers who turn splits, drops, and ostrich feathers into a way of life.

Park Joon-ho’s debut follows a young North Korean defector resettling in Seoul, caught between the fellow defectors who took him in and the pull of the city’s queer nightlife. Kim Hyun-mok won Best Actor at Jeonju IFF for his role.

Bullet benders! Black magic! Stolen Japanese gold! Four badass Tigers raise hell in Kongkiat Komesiri’s sexy, go-for-broke Thai spaghetti Western.

A stage director's farewell production turns vicious when his movie-star ex muscles into the lead role. Keane T.K. Wong's screwball debut, mentored by Derek Yee, stars Stephen Fung and Myolie Wu.

It's the last day of the month. Bowlers flock to the lanes of a bowling alley that has seen better days. Mira, the manager, decides to close early. She's awaiting the arrival of a special visitor.

Three girls in a dead-end Japanese town dare each other into the kind of get-rich-quick scheme that can only end badly. Takashi Koyama’s acidly funny, teeth-on-edge teen crime story about wanting out of nowhere-Japan stars Sara Minami, Natsuki Deguchi, and Mizuki Yoshida.

Trapped in an ancient village on China’s southwest border, a traveler’s bewilderment triggers a surreal exploration into the nature of existence and the future.

Bintang (19), who had lost his father at the age of 11, embarks on a new in-game adventure alongside his dad after he gathers the courage to play it again. It’s their favorite console game that they haven’t finished yet.

A Hong Kong housewife secretly signs up for a pole dancing class, and suddenly finds she has stories to keep straight, a body to retrain, and a respectability act that is falling apart.

A murdered detective opens the way to a nine-year-old kidnapping case in Tetsuya Nakashima’s dark ensemble mystery of family wreckage and buried guilt.

An elderly substitute driver works through the quiet hours before dawn, transporting strangers across the city. As she encounters indifference, loneliness, and fleeting moments of kindness, she searches for human connection beneath the blinking yellow lights of Seoul. Broken Dawn is a moving portrait of dignity, resilience, and the quiet determination to keep moving forward despite life's uncertainties.

In a time and place where abortion is illegal, a pregnant woman’s repeated attempts to end her pregnancy fail until she crosses paths with a strange bus driver.

A spiritual medium awoke to find his cherished Buddha gone one day, and he is forced to grapple with faith, betrayal, and his vulnerability.

Cecilia is about to turn 68 and has never been creative in her life. Spurred on by her curmudgeonly and competitive best friend, she enters a talent competition.

In a desperate search for validation, a self-absorbed woman stages her own funeral as part of a radical therapy trend.

Longman Leung’s Cold War blockbuster prequel rewinds to 1994 and old-school Hong Kong cinema, where a tycoon kidnapping unleashes cops, spies, triads, ransom panic, and colonial paranoia in a city changing hands.

Train to Busan director Yeon Sang-ho returns to zombie cinema with Gianna Jun, a sealed Seoul high-rise, and an outbreak that attacks and adapts. Fresh from Cannes.

"Cookie, Love" centers around Taiwanese-American baker Jean Hwang Carrant and her cookie shop in Paris. Part love story, part an American-In-Paris portrait, this short doc explores identity, authenticity, love, and of course - cookies.

Torn between love and tradition, a Southwest Chinese family tries to purge an entity from their queer heir – who is both the participant and maker of this documentary.

A failed date sends two strangers wandering in Beijing until dawn. Sandra Ma and Edward Chen spark Zhao Badou’s funny, horny, unexpectedly tender romance about flirting when you know better.

The 50th Hong Kong Film Festival’s Closing Film: a trans woman leaves mainland China for Hong Kong's back alleys, falls in love and explores the dangerous freedom to remake herself.

A young boxer delivers lunchboxes, endures her father’s live-in betrayal, and keeps swinging in Lee Yi-shan’s bruising debut, where Taiwanese family drama steps into the ring.

Searching for his long-lost chatroom crush, a Hong Kong chef cooks his way through four dates, four Zeldas, and one deliciously awkward reckoning with love à la carte, memory, and appetite.

Joseph Chang stars as a grieving husband searching for the truth behind his pregnant wife’s suicide in Shen Ko-shang’s fiction debut, winner of Best Film and Best Actor at the Pingyao International Film Festival and seven-time Golden Horse Award nominee.

Devils in the Bush, through a collection of phone calls, follows Fei, a young Korean woman navigating a newfound love, and the distance between herself and home. Over the course of a sweltering summer, tensions arise within her relationship as she moves through intimate moments and acts of self-destruction. As a long-awaited reunion with her mother approaches, Fei finds herself caught between the life she has built for herself and the one she left behind.

A cable subscription refuses to die. Sirens, panic, and a hell of a cancellation fee follow in Mak Tin-shu’s customer-service farce.

A departed soul lingers in the remnants of the world, seeking unfinished connections.

Ma Li stars in Andrew Lau’s true story of Zang Jianhe, who sold handmade dumplings near Wan Chai Pier and built them into the legendary Wanchai Ferry brand.

Andy Lau’s mahjong master gets both lucky and cursed… and to top it all: romantically clobbered in Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai’s tile-drunk comedy of bad hands and worse habits.

At an exclusive golf club outside Manila, a teenage tee girl enters a paradise of perfect lawns and polite humiliations. Rafael Manuel’s debut has very sharp teeth indeed.

A young Chinese woman recovers from a traumatic injury in a Moroccan hospital, where isolation, pain, and morphine-induced dreams lead her into a forbidden romance and a surreal journey of healing.

Three seasons, one old Seoul neighborhood, and several people trying to outsmart desire. Kim Jong-kwan’s triptych moves from café flirtation to a sly, metacinematic portrait of Seochon.

1977: her in-laws take her baby, and Fujiko takes everything back. Yuki Katayama swears and laughs her way through a single-mother story built like a rock song. Audiences at Udine Far East Film Festival voted it their top prize.

The adults checked out, the development's arrested, and three teenagers run their own small gang, until a pretty-boy influencer struts in and a crush goes radioactive. Han Chang-lok's punk debut slaps and kicks where it hurts. Busan FF Special Jury Award Winner.

Game on! Girl power gets a kick in the joystick as Hong Kong’s all-female esports underdogs turn a cha chaan teng into a pixel-bright comeback arena.

The director engages in an ongoing conversation with teenager Yu as she comes to terms with the experience of having had her intimate boundaries broken. Yu reflects on how she has been seen and defined, and begins to take back control of her own story. A dialogue built on trust, it empowers Yu to reclaim her own story, transforming from a "gazed-upon" object to an artist with newfound strength.

A Macau-born filmmaker faces marriage, a stalled career, and the loves that made her who she is in Tracy Choi’s intimate queer drama about growing without letting go.

A lost white dog searches for home across ten years and three lives. From GDH, the studio behind How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies, a moving three-director story of love and loyalty.

In 1948 Jeju, a young mother searches the forests beneath Hallasan for her missing child as Ha Myung-mi turns historical terror into a firefly-lit survival drama.

A teenager buried in debt takes a criminal gig in the woods. The job isn’t good. Then comes the bear. Eisuke Naito’s yamibaito creature feature bites hard.

The film captures the delicate dynamics between Abhi, a young tenant, and Deepa, his housekeeper. It is a gentle reminder of the connections we can form, regardless of the boundaries we create ourselves.

She has two months to decide whether to have a child. Her job is deciding everyone else's future. Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit turns the job interview into a slow tightening vise.

In an isolated castle, students prepare for a life-changing examination. As anticipation builds to a fever pitch, a storm strikes. Trapped within crumbling walls, their academic sanctuary becomes a prison, and minds begin to break.

Kai Ko is the softest debt collector in Macau, and a kid with a million in casino chips has a plan for him: gamble away her father's debt. What could possibly go wrong.

Takashi Miike’s notorious extreme-cinema landmark returns to the big screen. Tadanobu Asano is unforgettable as a deranged masochistic yakuza enforcer in a blood-soaked nightmare that has shocked audiences for twenty-five years.

A tofu-maker's kid, a battered Toyota AE86, and mountain roads built for trouble. From the directors of Infernal Affairs, the drift-racing cult favorite returns in 20th-anniversary 4K.

Two young Chinese expats and aspiring filmmakers drift apart when the pandemic strands her in Los Angeles and leaves him chasing his first feature in New York. Writer-director Yan Kunao, who also plays the lead, finds dry comedy in no-budget filmmaking and diaspora limbo.

A widow tries to close her life down, but when a piano and a Korean adoptee conductor turn up, they begin reopening it with unexpected results.

In fifteenth-century Joseon, a humble village headman unknowingly takes in a deposed boy-king. A touching, suspenseful period drama starring Yoo Hae-jin and Park Ji-hoon about loyalty under deadly political pressure.

The director of Noroi adapts a viral Japanese web novel: A missing editor’s collection of urban legends points toward one terrifying place. Found-document dread at its most unnerving and entertaining.

A broke director reopens a haunted theater, revives the Taiwanese opera his father abandoned, and falls for its leading lady—who’s been dead for 18 years. Chen Ta-pu packs supernatural comedy and backstage romance into a ghost story with laughter and tears.

Billed as Taiwan’s biggest film production in a decade: Kai Ko stars as a high-school underdog trained by a fallen master to battle a demon king. A wild, effects-packed martial-arts fantasy from Giddens Ko.

From Song Lang director Leon Le, a hushed 1985 Saigon romance between a young translator and a widowed cook from the defeated South. A TIFF Special Presentations premiere.

Three estranged friends, once bound by a shared dream of acting, reunite by chance for one night in Taipei. A warm, melancholy drama about friendship and words left unspoken.

On the unforgiving streets of Seoul, elderly cardboard collector Young-Soon survives on the margins of society, finding refuge in a vivid inner world where she transforms everyday struggles into extraordinary feats of imagination. When an encounter with local authorities threatens her fragile existence, Young-Soon is forced to confront the harsh realities she has escaped.

NYAFF’s first cine-concert: Tony Bui shapes scenes from across Vietnamese film history into the arc of a single life, set to a live original score from conductor Trần Nhật Minh and violinist Bùi Công Duy.

Ever the master of invention, director Lee Won-suk (Killing Romance, How To Use Guys With Secret Tips) brings vertical drama to the big screen.

Sara Minami, Kasumi Arimura, and Haru Kuroki play three desperate women who stumble into gold smuggling in Singapore and find out that crime, fast cash, and freedom travel well together.

Manila, 1969. Piolo Pascual's beat cop tells himself he's the good guy, right up until the rallies, a dead kid, and the police state prove otherwise. From Raymond Red, who took Cannes' Short Film Palme d'Or.

Pan wants to be a luk thung star. First problem: the army. Second problem: Bangkok. Third problem: every choice he makes after that. Pen-Ek Ratanaruang's tragicomedy keeps him singing through all of it.

Joan Chen stars as a Chinese immigrant wife and mother in Montreal whose affair with a younger Québécoise woman turns one summer into a secret, sensual awakening.

Taxi driver Hùng needs money. The internet needs a hero. One staged rescue later, Hùng is trapped inside the lie that may save his daughter’s life. Vietnamese box-office king Thái Hòa stars in Võ Thạch Thảo’s debut.

Bullied for the name his mother gave him, an angry Jeju teenager draws his haunted mother back to a long-forgotten tragedy in Chung Ji-young’s tense, emotionally charged drama. Yeom Hye-ran stars.

Twenty-five years on, My Sassy Girl is still the rom-com everyone else has been copying, and it will still put you through the wringer. Jun Ji-hyun's breakout, the meet-cute that launched a genre, restored in 4K.

Grappling with her homeland’s rapid modernization and admiration for West, a recent Korean immigrant discovers pride in the cultural hybridity of Korea alive in New York City’s Koreatown.

Dayo Wong runs East Tsim Sha Tsui’s last great hostess club. Then Sammi Cheng storms in as his ex-wife and the new CEO, with thirty days to save it. Jack Ng’s hit returns in a rougher, seedier Director’s Cut.

Strangers take over Johney’s dorm, claiming they are there to “inspect the factory.” She fights with them to protect a secret hidden inside.

Two lonely grandmas who don't speak the same language connect on their daily walks. Today is their last walk before one of them has to fly back home to Korea.

During a Mid-Autumn Festival dinner in a wealthy Hong Kong household, the uneasy presence of a surrogate mother unsettles a family ritual, forcing two women on opposite sides of privilege to confront motherhood, belonging, and inheritance.

A young Chinese woman tries to enter the U.S. under the assumed identity of a deceased girl, contending with both the authorities and her personal guilt.

Yeon Sang-ho’s follow-up to Train to Busan. Gang Dong-won leads a covert mission into a zombie-ravaged, quarantined Korea, where the survivors may be deadlier than the dead.

As a young woman turns her haunting into a podcast, her path directs her toward a girl who can see the dead, and toward a killer who hunts the ones who escaped their fate.

An indigenous Assamese fishing family struggles to adapt as its river and its way of life change beyond recognition. Dr. Pankaj Borah's patient, rooted drama won the NE Spotlight Award at Guwahati.

A legendary revenge killing becomes a dangerous mystery when a stranger arrives at the Edo kabuki theater where the duel happened, and every witness remembers a different truth.

The animated prequel to Train to Busan. As a zombie outbreak erupts among Seoul’s homeless and a runaway flees through the chaos, Yeon Sang-ho turns genre horror into fierce social commentary.

In the summer of 2008, less than a hundred days after a devastating earthquake, China basks in Olympic glory. Xiao Xi, a domestic worker, remains haunted by the loss of her sister in the disaster. When she learns of her sister’s reincarnation, she becomes drawn to her employer’s unborn child, convinced it is her sister. As her obsession grows, the tranquil household turns uneasy.

Golden Leopard winner Edwin goes full body-horror in a wig factory where exhaustion makes you possessable: two sisters chasing the thing that took their mother, a brother whose wounds won't stop closing, and a ghost shopping for a better body.

A painter fights the violence in him. A therapist hides her psychological cracks one floor below. Sirat Intarachote (4 Kings) leads a Thai debut that starts dark, turns deadpan, and goes off with no brakes. World Premiere.

Seoul, 1989. Jung-min wants to become a speed-reading prodigy, just like Dong-hyun—the coolest guy in town, who can finish an entire book in just 60 seconds!

Before superhero cinema took over, The Storm Riders gave Hong Kong its own comic-book apocalypse: Ekin Cheng, Aaron Kwok, prophecy, magic swords, heroic hair, and CGI pushed past reason.

The Sex Pistols hit, Tokyo calls, and a countryside photographer finds himself inside Japan’s punk explosion. Tomorowo Taguchi and Kankuro Kudo resurrect the Tokyo Rockers as scrappy DIY legend.

Selected for Tokyo’s main competition, Peng Fei’s sweeping, idealistic epic follows a stubborn Northeast Chinese worker chasing his late father’s dream of flying, from the reform era’s dance halls to one final ascent.

A demon returns to Thailand’s oldest and largest Catholic community, takes hold of a former priest, and forces Church exorcism and Isan folk ritual into one terrifying confrontation.

Ten years on, the Korean zombie blockbuster that conquered the world returns in 4K. One bitten passenger, one bullet train, no way off.

Adilkhan Yerzhanov's deadpan steppe neo-western: a war-wrecked bodyguard (Berik Aytzhanov) guards a corrupt boss, a contract killer (Anna Starchenko) comes to collect, and the one thing he's sure of, loyalty, begins to crack.

A former gangster running a home for troubled youth takes in a boy incapable of empathy, in Keisuke Yoshida’s searing drama about violence, penance, and the stubborn belief that no one is beyond reach.

A village near the North Korean border echoes with the sounds of military artillery and North Korean propaganda. During summer vacation, a young brother and sister venture up a mountain to gather berries. Heavy rains a month ago have damaged the trees, created a large waterway down the hill, and scattered debris at the mouth of the river. Torn warnings of unexploded bombs and landmines lie near the old barracks along the mountain trail the children follow. Soon after, the siblings stumble upon a mysterious sphere with an unknown purpose.

A Thai box-office smash from the beloved Thibaan Universe, open to first-timers. When lightning revives an old woman, a grieving young man sees a way to reach the afterlife.

One childhood alien-abduction, a prank-happy influencer, an extortion plot, and a fed-up traffic cop collide across one chaotic Hong Kong night. Kwok Ka-hei and Jack Lee’s debut is a low-budget, fast-cutting whodunit.

A Valentine’s Day bus explosion exposes a forbidden love story in Herman Yau’s furious Hong Kong crime tragedy, where social despair turns violently, devastatingly intimate.

WHERE BELLY GOES captures the evolution of a couple's relationship - as seen through their bathroom mirror.

Contract killer-turned-caregiver Ye Xiaolin poses as a caregiver to infiltrate and murder elderly people. Her life takes an unexpected turn after meeting zookeeper Ma Deyong. Their intertwined fates, along with detective Zhou Ping’s investigation into a series of murders unfold a gripping narrative.

Pang Ho-cheung's ruthlessly funny debut: a struggling hitman, ordered to film his own kills, hires a broke director to shoot them. The black comedy skewers the murder business and the movie business in the same breath.