Join Asian CineVision for the NYC premiere of the Indonesian supernatural drama Levitating, a Sundance 2026 selection directed by Wregas Bhanuteja about spiritual possession and fighting against gentrification. The screening will be followed by an in-person Q&A with the director and the opening night reception for the Asian American International Film Festival.

Join the Asian Art Museum after hours to experience the largest bronze ever cast in Southeast Asia, enriched by spotlight talks and followed by a dance performance, a short film screening, and an artist conversation. This event celebrates their exhibition Vishnu’s Cosmic Ocean!

Join the Asia Society and Asian CineVision for a screening of Moonglow by Isabel Sandoval.

Isabel Sandoval stars in her latest feature, a noirish moral tale set in 1979 Manila.

Followed by a Q&A.

Join the Asia Society and Asian CineVision for a screening of Lingua Franca by Isabel Sandoval.

In her only feature to date made in the USA, Sandoval stars as Olivia, an undocumented trans Filipina woman living in Brooklyn and working as a caregiver.

Followed by a Q&A.

Join the Asia Society and Asian CineVision for a screening of Aparisyon (Apparition) by Isabel Sandoval.

It’s 1971 in a remote forest near Manila, where Sister Lourdes (Jodi Sta. Maria) arrives to join a cloister of nuns—in theory separated from the outside world—at the convent Adoration.

Followed by a Q&A.

Join the Asia Society and Asian CineVision for a screening of Señorita by Isabel Sandoval.

Donna (Isabel Sandoval) is a trans woman in a small town in the Philippines who takes care of her friend’s son and works as the aide to a do-gooding mayoral candidate.

Followed by a Q&A.

Join the Asia Society New York for a film screening of Lost Land on the eve of World Refugee Day, an international day designated by the United Nations to honor the strength, resilience, and courage of people forced to flee their countries due to conflict or persecution. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Writer and Director Akio Fujimoto and Consulting Producer Eric Nyari to deepen understanding, foster empathy, and engage in meaningful dialogue about the global refugee experience.

Join the Asia Society New York for a film screening of Boat People (1981) by Ann Hui, which captures the experiences of postwar Vietnamese society.

Join Deconstructing Indonesia, NYSEAN, and the Indonesia Film Forum New York for a screening of Pesta Babi (Pig Feast) directed by Cypri Dale and Dandhy Laksono. This investigative documentary exposes the human cost of the world’s largest forest-conversion project: 2.5 million hectares of Papua turned into biofuel plantations. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Cypri Dale and representatives of the Malind Indigenous Community about the Red Cross Movement and resistance on the frontlines.

Join NYSEAN, Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU, and the NYU Espacio de Culturas for an evening of standout Philippine short films that premiered at the Cinemalaya and Sundance Film Festivals over the past decade. Featured films include Cross My Heart and Hope to Die, The Headhunter’s Daughter, Abogbaybay/ Shoredust, An Sadit na Planeta/ The Little Planet, The Next 24 Hours, Black Rainbow, and Vox Humana.

Join the Asia Society Museum and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University for a special dialogue between acclaimed French-Vietnamese filmmaker Tran Anh Hung and filmmaker and professor Tony Bui. The evening explores Tran’s distinctive cinematic language and creative evolution, featuring carefully selected scenes from across his celebrated body of work.

Join NYSEAN and GETSEA for a screening of Sotong and Against This Messy World,  two short films highlighting the challenges to art and expression in Malaysia’s complex political, legal, and societal landscape. The documentary screenings are followed by an online discussion with the filmmakers.

Join the Bronx Documentary Center for the opening reception of Overfishing in Southeast Asia, an Ecological and Human Crisis. Based on a nine-month investigation by Nicole Tung, laureate of the fifteenth Carmignac Photojournalism Award, this exhibition examines the environmental and human toll of industrial fishing in Southeast Asia. Through field reporting in Thailand, the Philippines, and Indonesia, Tung traces the journey from local ports to global markets, exposing the fragility and human cost behind the seafood supply chains that reach consumers worldwide.

Join NYSEAN, Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU, and the NYU Espacio de Culturas for an evening of film shorts by women and gender-queer filmmakers that have won recognition as winners and/or finalists in festivals in New York, Manila, and elsewhere. Featured filmmakers include Marion Aguas, Ara Chawdhury, Ida Del Mundo, Angeline Marie Michael Meitzler, Margarita Mina, and Maria Estela Paiso.

Join NYSEAN for a screening of The Last Breath of Sam Yan (2023), a documentary that captures the spirit and resilience of student activists and community members who stand firm in protecting their cultural heritage. The screening is followed by a discussion with co-producers Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal and Settanant Thanakitkoses, and student-activist Phumiyot Lapnarongchai.

Join NYSEAN and the NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute for a screening of short films from Democratic Voice of Burma and PBS on the fifth anniversary of the coup in Myanmar. The film screenings will be followed by a discussion with May Sabe Phyu, a Kachin social worker and activist, and Dr. Kyaw Moe Tun, President and Founder of Parami University.

Join the Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC) for a virtual screening of all five episodes of the Southeast Asian American Journeys documentary series, produced in partnership with the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) and featuring guest appearances from community members featured in the films. The screenings will be followed by a Q&A with Producer/Director Quyên Nguyen-Le, SEARAC Executive Director Quyen Dinh, and CAAM Executive Director Donald Young.

Join Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU, Espacio de Culturas at NYU, and NYSEAN for an evening of short films by Lav Diaz. The program includes: “Butterflies Have No Memories,” “Himala: A Dialectic of Our Times,” “Prologue to The Great Desaparecido,” “The Boy Who Chose the Earth,” “The Day Before the End,” and “The Firefly.”

Join the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies for a talk by Jane M. Ferguson, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Southeast Asian History at the Australian National University. Dr. Ferguson will discuss the differences in Burmese remakes of Hollywood movies under the parliamentary democracy years (1948-1962) and under the socialist era (1962-1988), exploring the “remake” as a cultural predictor for Burmese engagement with global cinema.

Join NYSEAN and Sulo: The Philippines Studies Initiative at NYU for a showcase of Filipino student filmmakers at NYU: Cal Galicia, Haley Jade Odum, Jack Lacy, and Lauren Luke. This program highlights and celebrates the work of these emerging storytellers before their films premiere on the festival circuit and beyond.

Join the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University for a talk by Anocha Suwichakornpong, Associate Professor of Film from Columbia University, who will discuss how fictional narrative filmmaking can serve as a form of resistance under authoritarian regimes, with a focus on her own practice as a filmmaker and artist working in Thailand.

Join the Thirdworld Newsreel and the Documentary Forum at City College of New York for a screening and discussion of the documentary film Because of You: A History of Kilawin Kolektibo by Desireena Almoradie and Barbara Malaran. The screening will be followed by a talkback with the co-directors and fellow past participants of Kilawin Kolektibo.

Join the Asia Society Museum for a film screening of Opera Jawa by Garin Nugroho, followed by a wine reception and a special music performance by renowned composer Peni Candra Rini with acclaimed musicians Shahzad Ismaily, Andy McGraw, and I Gusti Putu Sudarta.

Join the Asia Society Museum for a multi-sensorial celebration of the silent film Setan Jawa by filmmaker Garin Nugroho. The silent film will be accompanied by a live score composed and performed by Peni Candra Rini, with Andy McGraw, Shahzad Ismaily, Gusti Sudarta, and Scott Clark. A conversation and Q&A with the filmmaker follows the program.

Join the Asia Society Museum for a screening of Independencia (2009) by Raya Martin, preceded by a screening of the short film The Anthem (2006) by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and followed by an extended conversation with Dennis Lim, Artistic Director of the New York Film Festival,  about his critical perspectives and career in film.

Join Asian CineVision for the screenings of Rooftop Lempicka; Sex, Baseball, and All Pussibilities; Clementine; They Call Me the Tattoo Witch; OK/NOTOK; and Zari as part of the Asian American International Film Festival. These are films by and for the girl with an emphasis on platonic love, self-affirmation, and healing through art and expression. They celebrate femininity in all its forms, from the tenderness of youth to the antics of young womanhood and beyond. The screenings will be followed by a filmmaker Q&A.

Join Asian CineVision for the screening of Year of the Cat (2025) as part of the Asian American International Film Festival. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with writer and director Phạm Tony Nguyen.