25th New York Asian Film Festival

July 10-26, 2026

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North American Premiere

Colony

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Fresh from its Cannes Midnight world premiere and Korea’s biggest local opening of the year, Colony marks Yeon Sang-ho’s return to the territory he radically transformed with Train to Busan and brings with it a nastier species of panic. Inside a Seoul high-rise, a science conference becomes ground zero for a fast-mutating virus. The authorities seal the building, turning its glass-and-steel corporate order into a slaughterhouse where every floor brings fresh betrayals, brutal calculations, and new ways to die. Gianna Jun stars as a biotech professor trapped in the outbreak, alongside Ji Chang-wook, Shin Hyun-been, Kim Shin-rok, Go Soo, and Koo Kyo-hwan as the scientist at the center of the disaster. Colony is a zombie movie for the AI age: system-based, smart, hungry for more, and moving too fast to contain.

Director: Yeon Sang-ho
Producers: Yoomin Hailey Yang, Sung Joon-Ho
Executive Producer: Yoomin Hailey Yang
Screenwriters: Yeon Sang-ho, Choi Gyu-seok
Cast: Gianna Jun, Koo Kyo-hwan, Ji Chang-wook, Shin Hyun-been, Kim Shin-Rock
Languages: Korean with English Subtitles
2026; 122 min.; DCP
Country: South Korea

SCHEDULE:

Friday July 10, 7:30pm
Film at Lincoln Center

Opening Night Film. Premium Screening. Intro and Q&A with director Yeon Sang-ho, Extraordinary Star Asia Award Recipient Gianna Jun, and producer Ahn So-hee.

Wednesday July 15, 7:00pm
Korean Cultural Center New York