Unforgiven
Retired Old West gunslinger Will Munny reluctantly takes on one last job to avenge an injustice with the help of his old partner and a young would-be gunman calling himself “The Schofield Kid”.
Staff Pick by Zak Koerner, usher
Screening as part of our series Staff Picks 2026
The Panic in Needle Park
New York City, circa 1970. Bobby and Helen meet and fall in love. He’s a native New Yorker; she’s from Indiana. He’s a streetwise, small-time criminal who has done jail time and dabbled in “hard” drugs. But she’s not an innocent either.
Staff Pick by Eder Cortes, usher
Screening as part of our series Staff Picks 2026
SLC Punk
It’s 1985 and Stevo is that rare animal, a punk rocker in the Mormon stronghold of Salt Lake City, Utah. He just graduated from college with honors and now his life is a nutty roller coaster ride of rock shows, stealing cars, beating up rednecks and non-stop partying with his buddy, Heroin Bob, and his girlfriend. But with the scene getting lame and Stevo going nowhere fast, he has to put his punk ideals to the test. With a choice between “No Future” and Harvard Law School, what’s a guy with blue hair supposed to do?
Staff Pick by Miles Contreras, usher
Screening as part of our series Staff Picks 2026
Elephant
A variety of adolescents at a suburban high school drift through a seemingly uneventful day, until two students arrive with violent intentions.
Staff Pick by Lee Emmerich, projectionist
Screening as part of our series Staff Picks 2026
Blades of Glory
Two figure skating rivals are banned from the sport after a brawl over the gold medal. Joining forces, they find a loophole in the rules that allows them to skate again… as a pair!
Staff Pick by Casey Gallagher, Theater Manager
Screening as part of our series Staff Picks 2026
Addams Family Values
The Addams Family try to rescue their beloved Uncle Fester from his gold-digging new love, a black widow named Debbie.
“I give this movie two snaps.” -Staff Pick by Sean R., usher
Screening as part of our series Staff Picks 2026
Seoul Station
Monday, July 13 at 7:00: 10th Anniversary Special Screening
Before the train ever left the platform, Yeon Sang-ho made this. SEOUL STATION is the animated prequel to TRAIN TO BUSAN, and it begins where the outbreak begins: among the homeless men sleeping rough near one of the city’s busiest transit hubs. As night falls, the infection tears first through the people the city had already abandoned. The film follows Hye-sun, a young runaway, her boyfriend, and the father searching for her through the chaos, as familiar streets become a killing ground. Yeon, who came up through hard-edged independent animation with The King of Pigs and The Fake, brings a fierce social conscience to the genre.
An essential companion to TRAIN TO BUSAN, screening as part of NYAFF’s Yeon Sang-ho: Apocalypse Architect spotlight program.
Screening as part of New York Asian Film Festival 2026
Monrak Transistor
Wednesday, July 15 at 7:30: 25th Anniversary Special Screening!
NYAFF 25th Anniversary Rediscoveries
Country boy Pan has two things going for him: Sadao, the woman he loves, and a voice made for luk thung, Thailand’s heartbreak-heavy country music. Then the army takes him, a singing contest gets ideas into his head, and Bangkok opens its mouth wide. Pan deserts for a shot at stardom, only to fall into the hands of a crooked manager. From there, he drifts through cane fields, petty crime, prison, and every wrong turn fame and bad luck can put you through. Back home, pregnant Sadao waits beside the transistor radio he gave her on their wedding day.
Selected for Cannes Directors’ Fortnight in 2002, MONRAK TRANSISTOR remains a Thai New Wave classic with a broken heart and a tune it cannot shake.
Screening as part of New York Asian Film Festival 2026
Manila’s Finest
Thursday, July 22 at 7:30: Q&A with director Raymond Red and star Piolo Pascual after the screening
International Premiere
Southeast Asian Frontiers
Raymond Red, the first Filipino filmmaker to win the Short Film Palme d’Or at Cannes for Anino, drags you back to Manila before martial law: a city with streetlights worth shooting under and cops who still think they are the good guys. Piolo Pascual is Homer Magtibay, a chain-smoking beat lieutenant working brothels, street corners, and precinct shadows, too compromised to be clean and too convinced of himself to stop. Enrique Gil rides shotgun. Then the student rallies gather force, a teenager turns up dead, and the men who call themselves Manila’s Finest get pulled into the machinery of a police state.
Screening as part of New York Asian Film Festival 2026
Filipiñana
Thursday, July 16 at 7:00: New York Premiere!
Southeast Asian Frontiers
Winner of the Sundance Film Festival’s Special Jury Award for Creative Vision, Rafael Manuel’s feature debut expands his Berlinale Silver Bear–winning 2020 short into a work of immaculate control and sunlit menace. Isabel, 17 and newly employed, works as a tee girl at an exclusive country club outside Manila, placing balls for the powerful men who cross the verdant course as if the land had always belonged to them. Around her, sprinklers hiss, golf carts glide, staff wait with practiced patience. All the while, the rules of the club seem to echo a larger national order. Manuel turns golf and perfect lawns into a savage satire of capitalism, building suspense from tiny humiliations, absurd rituals, and gorgeous, poisonous details. What begins as a droll portrait of service and privilege slowly bares very sharp teeth. A Kino Lorber release.
Screening as part of New York Asian Film Festival 2026