New York Asian Film Festival 2019: A Main Slate Retrospective

With the coming of mid-July comes the ending of the New York Asian Film Festival. Now in its 18th year, this annual collection of films remains one of the only places in New York City where audiences can watch films…

NYAFF Opening Night Review: Samurai Marathon races towards confusion

The New York Asian Film Festival returns for its eighteenth year, kicking off its annual celebration of some of the strangest, weirdest, and most eclectic filmmaking throughout Asia. The opening night film was the North American premiere of Bernard Rose’s…

NYAFF 2018: Dante Lam Mini-Retrospective

Despite having already premiered in New York earlier this year in a smattering of local cinemas, the screening of Dante Lam’s latest film, the Chinese mega-blockbuster Operation Red Sea, was one of the most hotly anticipated events of this year’s…

What Happened to the New York Asian Film Festival’s Main Slate? — A Bewildered Retrospective

What happened to this year’s New York Asian Film Festival main competition slate? For the last 17 years, the NYAFF has prided itself on being one of the most unusual, unpredictable, and daring festivals not just in New York but…

NYAFF 2018: On Happiness Road and the Cost of Cultural Fluidity

[Warning: Spoilers Ahead] When Lin Shu-Chi returns to her childhood home in Taiwan, she finds everything changed. The fetid, canal running through her neighborhood is now a tidy town park and the buildings leveled by the 1999 Jiji earthquake have…

NYAFF Round Up #6: TETSUO: THE IRON MAN (1989), SWALLOWTAIL BUTTERFLY (1996), ALL ABOUT LILY CHOU-CHOU (2001), TEKKONKINKREET (2006)

At this year’s NYAFF, four classic Japanese films were re-released. Despite a growing market for international cinema, many nooks and crannies of Japanese filmmaking have remained untouched and unexplored by Western audiences. Here are our reviews of each film in…

NYAFF Round Up #2: GRACE (2016), THE BOYS WHO CRIED WOLF (2015)

This year TheYoungFolks is proud to cover the New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF) which seeks to spotlight contemporary and recent Asian filmmaking. Additional information, screening schedules, and contact information for the festival can be found HERE. We continue today…