25th New York Asian Film Festival

July 10-26, 2026

Photo: © SERENDIPITY FILMS LTD.

North American Premiere

Girlfriends

女孩不平凡

At thirty-four, Lok can feel the life she has postponed pressing in. Macau-born and long adrift in the Hong Kong film world, she has one feature behind her, a second that refuses to come together, and a live-in girlfriend who wants a future that looks settled. But the closer that future gets, the more Lok returns to the women and cities that shaped her: Taiwan at twenty-two, where her student years bring a restless romance and the sense that life could still open in any direction; Macau at seventeen, where a crush on a free-spirited older woman first teaches her what desire means. Drawing from her own life, Tracy Choi turns those three ages and three cities into a confoundingly intimate queer drama about love, artistic doubt, and the hard bargain between growing up and staying true to oneself.

Director: Tracy Choi
Producers: Estela Valdivieso Chen, Jacqueline Liu
Screenwriters: Shiu Wa Lou, Sebrina Zheng
Cast: Fish Liew, Jennifer Yu, Elizabeth Tang, Ning Han, Natalie Hsu
Languages: Mandarin, English with English Subtitles
2025; 100 min.; DCP
Countries: Macau, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand

SCHEDULE:

Thursday July 23, 6:00pm
Film at Lincoln Center

Intro and Q&A with director Tracy Choi

Tracy Choi
徐欣羡

Tracy Choi grew up in Macau, studied filmmaking in Taiwan, and earned her MFA in Film Production at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, where her graduation film Sometimes Naive won the student prize at the FIRST International Film Festival. Her documentary I'm Here (2012) won the Jury Prize at the Macau International Film and Video Festival. Her debut feature Sisterhood won the Macao Audience Choice Award at the International Film Festival and Awards Macao and received two Hong Kong Film Awards nominations, and she followed it with Lonely Eighteen (2023) and Promise of Decades (2024). Tracy is presenting her latest film, Girlfriends, at NYAFF 2026.