Shorts Program: Pressure Points
New York Asian Film Festival 2026
July 10 - 23
This program of short films includes Altay Ulan Yang’s Hyena, Anatole Sloan’s Our Child, Shen Chieh Tsang’s No Place Like Home, Hao Zhou’s Correct Me If I’m Wrong, Zéré Turlykhanova’s Coffin Therapy, and Surya Balakrishnan’s The Housekeeper.
Showtimes
Thu, July 16
Hyena
Altay Ulan Yang, 2025, China/U.S., 20m
Mandarin with English subtitles
New York Premiere
In an isolated castle, students prepare for a life-changing examination. As anticipation builds to a fever pitch, a storm strikes. Trapped within crumbling walls, their academic sanctuary becomes a prison and minds begin to break.
Our Child
Anatole Sloan, 2026, Hong Kong/U.K., 18m
English, Mandarin, and Cantonese with English subtitles
World Premiere
During a Mid-Autumn Festival dinner in a wealthy Hong Kong household, the uneasy presence of a surrogate mother unsettles a family ritual, forcing two women on opposite sides of privilege to confront motherhood, belonging, and inheritance.
No Place Like Home
Shen Chieh Tsang, 2025, Taiwan, 12m
English, Mandarin, and Tagalog with English subtitles
North American Premiere
After a grueling night shift, a Filipino migrant worker in Taiwan returns to find strangers clearing out her dorm and installing heavy machinery. As tensions erupt, Johnny fights to protect her home and a secret she’s kept hidden inside.
Correct Me If I’m Wrong
Hao Zhou, 2025, Germany/U.S., 23m
New York Premiere
A Southwest Chinese family tries to purge an entity from their queer heir, in a struggle of love, legacy, and belief.
Coffin Therapy
Zéré Turlykhanova, 2025, Kazakhstan, 18m
Russian with English subtitles
New York Premiere
In a desperate search for validation, a self-absorbed woman stages her own funeral as part of a radical therapy trend.
The Housekeeper
Surya Balakrishnan, 2025, India, 23m
English, Hindi, and Marathi with English subtitles
New York Premiere
Abhi is a young man adrift in the monotony of urban existence while Deepa, his housekeeper, comes to clean up after him each day. Though they physically occupy the same apartment at different times, the space they inhabit is experienced in vastly different ways.
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