25th New York Asian Film Festival

July 10-26, 2026

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Photo: Anatole Sloan & Reel Issues Films

World Premiere

Our Child

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.

Director: Anatole Sloan
Producers: Luke Walton, Mark Blaney
Screenwriter: Anatole Sloan
Cast: Karena Lam, Patra Au, Alan Luk, Yiyi Liu
Languages: English, Cantonese, Mandarin, Henanese with English Subtitles
2026; 18 min.; DCP
Countries: Hong Kong, United Kingdom

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