25th New York Asian Film Festival

July 10-26, 2026

Hong Kong Panorama

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North American Premiere
第四幕

A stage director's farewell production turns vicious when his movie-star ex muscles into the lead role. Keane T.K. Wong's screwball debut, mentored by Derek Yee, stars Stephen Fung and Myolie Wu.

Tuesday July 21, 9:00pm (Walter Reade Theater, Film at Lincoln Center)

Intro and Q&A with Screen International Rising Star Asia Award Recipient Angela Yuen and director Keane TK Wong

International Premiere
媽樣年華

A Hong Kong housewife secretly signs up for a pole dancing class, and suddenly finds she has stories to keep straight, a body to retrain, and a respectability act that is falling apart.

Sunday July 19, 12:00pm (Walter Reade Theater, Film at Lincoln Center)

Intro and Q&A with director Joey Wu

Special Screening
寒戰1994

Longman Leung’s Cold War blockbuster prequel rewinds to 1994 and old-school Hong Kong cinema, where a tycoon kidnapping unleashes cops, spies, triads, ransom panic, and colonial paranoia in a city changing hands.

Monday July 20, 9:00pm (Walter Reade Theater, Film at Lincoln Center)

Premium Screening. Intro and Q&A with Best From The East Award Recipient Daniel Wu

Tuesday July 21, 3:00pm (Walter Reade Theater, Film at Lincoln Center)
North American Premiere
超風

The 50th Hong Kong Film Festival’s Closing Film: a trans woman leaves mainland China for Hong Kong's back alleys, falls in love and explores the dangerous freedom to remake herself.

Wednesday July 22, 8:45pm (Walter Reade Theater, Film at Lincoln Center)

Intro and Q&A with director Philip Yung, actress Liu Yuqiao and screenwriter Annabelle Kayee Li

International Premiere
廚師發辦

Searching for his long-lost chatroom crush, a Hong Kong chef cooks his way through four dates, four Zeldas, and one deliciously awkward reckoning with love à la carte, memory, and appetite.

Thursday July 16, 9:00pm (Walter Reade Theater, Film at Lincoln Center)

Intro and Q&A with director Frankie Chung

North American Premiere
一個部門的誕生

A cable subscription refuses to die. Sirens, panic, and a hell of a cancellation fee follow in Mak Tin-shu’s customer-service farce.

Sunday July 19, 4:00pm (SVA Theatre, SVA Theatre)

Intro and Q&A with cast Yukki Tai & Ng Wing Sze

Special Screening
水餃皇后

Ma Li stars in Andrew Lau’s true story of Zang Jianhe, who sold handmade dumplings near Wan Chai Pier and built them into the legendary Wanchai Ferry brand.

Saturday July 11, 12:00pm (Walter Reade Theater, Film at Lincoln Center)

Intro and Q&A with director Andrew Lau

Special Screening
嚦咕嚦咕新年財

Andy Lau’s mahjong master gets both lucky and cursed… and to top it all: romantically clobbered in Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai’s tile-drunk comedy of bad hands and worse habits.

Wednesday July 22, 6:00pm (Walter Reade Theater, Film at Lincoln Center)
North American Premiere
電競女孩

Game on! Girl power gets a kick in the joystick as Hong Kong’s all-female esports underdogs turn a cha chaan teng into a pixel-bright comeback arena.

Tuesday July 21, 6:00pm (Walter Reade Theater, Film at Lincoln Center)

Intro and Q&A with Screen International Rising Star Asia Award Recipient Angela Yuen, and director Veronica Bassetto

North American Premiere
女孩不平凡

A Macau-born filmmaker faces marriage, a stalled career, and the loves that made her who she is in Tracy Choi’s intimate queer drama about growing without letting go.

Thursday July 23, 6:00pm (Walter Reade Theater, Film at Lincoln Center)

Intro and Q&A with director Tracy Choi

Special Screening
頭文字D

A tofu-maker's kid, a battered Toyota AE86, and mountain roads built for trouble. From the directors of Infernal Affairs, the drift-racing cult favorite returns in 20th-anniversary 4K.

Sunday July 12, 9:30pm (Walter Reade Theater, Film at Lincoln Center)

Intro and Q&A with director Andrew Lau

International Premiere
夜王

Dayo Wong runs East Tsim Sha Tsui’s last great hostess club. Then Sammi Cheng storms in as his ex-wife and the new CEO, with thirty days to save it. Jack Ng’s hit returns in a rougher, seedier Director’s Cut.

Sunday July 19, 5:00pm (Walter Reade Theater, Film at Lincoln Center)
Special Screening
少林足球

Forget the Miramax hack job. Forget the old Blu-rays. Stephen Chow’s Shaolin Soccer hits NYAFF in its original Cantonese theatrical version, from Universe’s recent 2K digital remaster DCP: kung fu, football, wire-fu insanity, and lowbrow genius gone sublime.

Friday July 17, 6:30pm (Courthouse Theater, Anthology Film Archives)
Special Screening
風雲雄霸天下

Before superhero cinema took over, The Storm Riders gave Hong Kong its own comic-book apocalypse: Ekin Cheng, Aaron Kwok, prophecy, magic swords, heroic hair, and CGI pushed past reason.

Monday July 13, 12:30pm (Howard Gilman Theater, Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center)

Intro with director Andrew Lau

U.S. Premiere
UFO離奇命案

One childhood alien-abduction, a prank-happy influencer, an extortion plot, and a fed-up traffic cop collide across one chaotic Hong Kong night. Kwok Ka-hei and Jack Lee’s debut is a low-budget, fast-cutting whodunit.

Saturday July 25, 7:00pm (SVA Theatre, SVA Theatre)
U.S. Premiere
我們不是什麼

A Valentine’s Day bus explosion exposes a forbidden love story in Herman Yau’s furious Hong Kong crime tragedy, where social despair turns violently, devastatingly intimate.

Saturday July 18, 8:45pm (Walter Reade Theater, Film at Lincoln Center)
Monday July 20, 3:00pm (Walter Reade Theater, Film at Lincoln Center)
Special Screening
買兇拍人

Pang Ho-cheung's ruthlessly funny debut: a struggling hitman, ordered to film his own kills, hires a broke director to shoot them. The black comedy skewers the murder business and the movie business in the same breath.

Thursday July 16, 7:30pm (Courthouse Theater, Anthology Film Archives)

Intro and Q&A with director Pang Ho-cheung