NYAFF 2024 : LGBTQIA+ Features

This year at NYAFF, we're proud to highlight films that explore the intricate experiences of the queer community. From gut-wrenching tales of clandestine affairs to death-defying love stories and families torn by the law, these films are sure to have you deep in your feels.

Continue reading for the features and shorts that celebrate LGBTQIA+ stories at NYAFF 2024!

Mind Blowing 56' Epic ILYA MUROMETS 4K Restoration

Deaf Crocodile Films will digitally release the 4K restoration of famed fantasy filmmaker Aleksandr Ptushko’s visually stunning 1956 medieval epic ILYA MUROMETS (THE SWORD & THE DRAGON) on June 28th in North America following its Blu-ray release last month. 

Legendary fantasy filmmaker Aleksandr Ptushko’s sweeping, visual FX-filled epic is one of his most enchanting achievements: a stunning Cinemascope ballad of heroic medieval knights, ruthless Tugar invaders, wind demons, and three-headed fire-breathing dragons. The film stars Boris Andreyev as the bogatyr (warrior) Ilya, a mythic figure in the Kyivan Rus’ culture that pre-dated both modern Ukraine and Russia (much of the film’s action is set in Kyiv, and Ilya’s relics are held today in the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra monastery). Based on a series of famous byliny (oral epics), the film follows Ilya as he wages a decades-long battle against the Tugars who threaten his homeland, kidnap his wife, and raise his own son to fight against him. 

KCCNY x NYAFF present: A MERRY ZOMBIE XMAS

'Tis the Season to run for your life as Korean Cultural Center New York (KCCNY) and the New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF) are in the giving spirit to present a free streaming series that highlights one of the sweeping film genres to grace the big screen that will aim to leave you dying for more...literally.

What lurks in Winter's breath is the stillness of the undead creeping upon an unknowing populace. Keep your loved ones close and your enemies as a human shield as they take the first bite from a relentless zombie horde! Don't wait up for Santa. He probably didn't make it.

Full Lineup for The 17th New York Asian Film Festival June 29 – July 15

The Film Society of Lincoln Center and Subway Cinema announce the 17th edition of the New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF), June 29 – July 15, 2018.

From vicious, life-destroying phone scams to balletic battles between equally corrupt cops and yakuza, NYAFF offers films that reflect on contemporary society while offering extreme genre pleasures. There are self-referential takes on cinematic zombies, existential date nights, and teens finding their own corners of the world despite familial and societal expectations.After last year’s Sweet Sixteen, this year’s program is dubbed the Savage Seventeenth edition with four world premieres, three international premieres, 21 North American premieres, three U.S. premieres, and twelve New York premieres, showcasing the most exciting comedies, dramas, thrillers, romances, horrors and arthouse films from East Asia.

Thale Reviewed

Cleaning up after a gruesome incident has become a "growth field". I'm not sure if this means more people are offing themselves and/or each other in more hideous ways, and more often, OR that there weren't that many people looking to clean up these epic messes for fun and profit! We may never know. Elvis and Leo are in this very profession, though Elvis is new to the position and still driven by his curiosity. It's this lust for knowledge and an inescapable urge to fondle a dead guy's belongings that reveals the hiding place of a woman...very naked...very cold...and very wet. The pair instantly recognize that there is something unusual about her, and while this is a red flag for Leo, it only drives Elvis to further explore a pile of audio cassettes in the hopes they will reveal the identity of this mystery woman.