25th New York Asian Film Festival

July 10-26, 2026

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New York Premiere

Coffin Therapy

Yeva stages her own funeral under the guise of coffin therapy, a new wellness ritual where lying in a coffin promises clarity and healing. But Yeva’s true motive is far less sincere. As her carefully crafted performance unravels, so does she. A darkly comic meditation on vanity, emptiness, and the industries built around our need to feel whole.

Director: Zéré Turlykhanova
Producer: Yevgeniya Moreva
Screenwriter: Zéré Turlykhanova
Cast: Anna Karabaeva, Marina Shmatova, Tamara Astaf'eva
Languages: English, Russian with English subtitles
2025; 18 min.; DCP
Country: Kazakhstan

SCHEDULE:

Thursday July 16, 3:00pm
Film at Lincoln Center

This program of short films includes Altay Ulan Yang’s HYENA, Anatole Sloan’s Our Child, Shen Chieh Tsang’s No Place Like Home, Hao Zhou’s CORRECT ME IF I’M WRONG, Zéré Turlykhanova’s Coffin Therapy, and Surya Balakrishnan’s The Housekeeper.

Q&A with Anatole Sloan (Director) - Our Child; Zéré Turlykhanova (Director) - Coffin Therapy; Edyta Yutong Deng (Producer) - Hyena