25th New York Asian Film Festival

July 10-26, 2026

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World Premiere

Someone Special

Chinese: 特别的你 | Thai:

Sirat Intarachote (4 Kings, App War) plays hard against type as a young painter, fresh out of a state institution and terrified of the violence rising in him. He keeps to himself in a Bangkok apartment, while one floor below lives a therapist, played by Anyarin Terathananpat, whose warm professional manner hides divorce wounds. Then one strange night locks their lives into a single orbit, and Someone Special swerves beautifully sideways. It starts as a dark psychological thriller and keeps mutating: damaged romance, deadpan psychodrama, gonzo chamber piece, and finally something too unclassifiable to sit still inside any genre. The wild card is a patient whose runaway erotomania sends bodies, genres, and good sense to the floor. Petong Sakulchai and Ariel Feng, New York Film Academy graduates, direct their first feature with no fear and no map.

Directors: Petong Sakulchai, Ariel Feng
Producers: Ariel Feng, Petong Sakulchai
Screenwriter: Petong Sakulchai
Cast: Anyarin Terathananpat, Too Sirat Intarachote, Fern Supanaree Sutichitwong, Ben Warawut Brown, Na-Chatra Vanessa Herrmann
Languages: Thai with English Subtitles
2026; 110 min.; DCP
Country: Thailand

SCHEDULE:

Sunday July 26, 12:00pm
SVA Theatre

Intro and Q&A with directors Petong Sakulchai and Ariel Feng