Voguing as survival, the runway as a battlefield. Chan Sze-Wei's debut follows three Southeast Asian ballroom trailblazers who turn splits, drops, and ostrich feathers into a way of life.
25th New York Asian Film Festival
July 10-26, 2026
Queer Unbound
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New York Premiere
Sunday July 19, 7:00pm (SVA Theatre, SVA Theatre)
_Intro and Q&A with director Chan Sze-Wei and featured talent
🥂 Post-Screening Reception. From 9.00pm till late Free and open to all NYAFF members and ticket holders. RSVP required Celebrate Singapore film and culture in New York with the New York premiere of 10s Across the Borders. This event is made possible with the support of the Singapore Tourism Board and Singapore Global Network. Following the screening, join the filmmakers and cast, in a reception featuring Southeast Asian light bites, drinks, music and more.
Register for free ticket here: https://www.gevme.com/singapore-movie-screening-and-reception_
New York Premiere
Park Joon-ho’s debut follows a young North Korean defector resettling in Seoul, caught between the fellow defectors who took him in and the pull of the city’s queer nightlife. Kim Hyun-mok won Best Actor at Jeonju IFF for his role.
Saturday July 25, 1:15pm (SVA Theatre, SVA Theatre)
North American Premiere
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
North American Premiere
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
New York Premiere
Joan Chen stars as a Chinese immigrant wife and mother in Montreal whose affair with a younger Québécoise woman turns one summer into a secret, sensual awakening.
Sunday July 12, 3:00pm (Walter Reade Theater, Film at Lincoln Center)
Intro and Q&A with actress Joan Chen
Tuesday July 14, 12:30pm (Howard Gilman Theater, Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center)
Special Screening
At a Koreatown spa, a dutiful son slips into a world of desire and shame. Ten years after its Sundance breakthrough, Andrew Ahn’s breakthrough still burns under the steam.
U.S. Premiere
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)
