We present the Asian films that will be screened at the New Directors/New Films, which will take place from April 3 – 14, 2024 at the Lincoln Center in New York, USA.

– Feature Films –

A Journey in Spring by Wang Ping-Wen, Peng Tzu-Hui – Taiwan | 2023 – 90 minutes

In a home perched high in the wooded hills outside Taipei, aging married couple Khim-Hok (Jason King) and Siu-Tuan (Yang Kuei-Mei) bicker, gripe, and commiserate, inhabiting the familiar rhythms of a well-trod daily routine—until a sudden death throws their world into a state of muted disarray. (NDNF 2024)

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All, or Nothing at All by Jiajun “Oscar” Zhang – China |2023 – 124 minutes

The innovatively conceived and constructed feature debut from Chinese filmmaker Jiajun “Oscar” Zhang takes place entirely within the overwhelming, majestically artificial confines of the vertical “Global Harbor” shopping mall in Shanghai, where pairs of strangers nurse or run from romantic crushes on each other. (NDNF 2024)

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Cu LI Never Cries by Pham Ngoc Lan – Vietnam, Singapore, France, Philippines, Norway | 2024 – 92 minutes

Personal and political histories are ever-present in this tender yet commanding feature debut by Pham Ngoc Lân, in which Mrs. Nguyên (Minh Châu) returns to her Vietnamese hometown to spread the ashes of her estranged husband and reconnect with her niece, Vân (Hà Phuong), resentful of her aunt’s absence. (NDNF 2024)

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Dreaming & Dying by Nelson Yeo – Singapore, Indonesia | 2023 – 77 minutes

At midlife, three high school friends appear in a peculiar love triangle, unclear if they are grappling with unresolved desires from the past or repressed yearnings of the present in Singaporean director Nelson Yeo’s debut feature. (NDNF 2024)

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– Short Films –

Goodbye First Love by Shuli Huang – USA | 2024 – 13 minutes

Director and cinematographer Shuli Huang visits his first love in Frankfurt on a dark, rainy day during a work trip in Europe. In a small studio, two men share loving and contradictory memories of their past relationship in Beijing, pointing to tales of what could have been in weary, melancholic silences. (NDNF 2024)

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Break no. 1 & Break no. 2 by Lei Lei – China | 2024 – 18 minutes

An assemblage of still images and video work, both real and imagined, Break no. 1 & Break no. 2 explores the fragility of human memory as it relates to the moving image and the unconscious. In Break no. 1, a silent narrator deals with the fallout of a friend’s suicide through dreams after photographs of the two of them together mysteriously disappear. In Break no. 2, the narrator floats through the endless corridors of a video hall, where the imposition of government censorship affects the ways in which the videotapes advertised there are consumed and remembered. (NDNF 2024)

More information: https://www.filmlinc.org/festivals/new-directors-new-films-2024/