Shorts Program: Stories from Her
New York Asian Film Festival 2025
July 11 - 24, 2025
This program of short films includes Li-Ying Chien’s Inspired by Lip Balm, Amie Song’s Three, Mai Huyen Chi’s The River Runs Still, Kevin Tsung-Hsuan Yeh’s Stills Moving, and Nina Tsuji’s Good-Mourning.
Inspired by Lip Balm
Inspired by Lip Balm
Li-Ying Chien, 2025, Taiwan, 15m
English, Mandarin with English subtitles
North American Premiere
A comic book writer is invited by a film production company to adapt her short comic collection about casual relationships. Under pressure, she meets someone who inspires personal transformation.
Three
Three
Amie Song, 2024, U.S., 15m
At a home gathering, a Chinese woman who has recently moved to the United States to live with her daughter tries to keep her daughter’s secrets from her new friends.
The River Runs Still / Lụa
Mai Huyen Chi, 2024, Vietnam, 14m
Vietnamese with English Subtitles
World Premiere
The River Runs Still offers a brief glimpse into the lives of some stateless boat women who find themselves trapped, belonging nowhere, and with few opportunities to break the cycle.
Stills Moving
Kevin Tsung-Hsuan Yeh, 2024, Taiwan, 16m
Chinese with English subtitles
A sculptor facing a diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a disease that will eventually make her lose control of her body, puts her heart and soul into her next work, a figurine of a little girl. As the sculptor’s limbs begin to falter and weaken, her work, the figurine, starts moving and opens her eyes….
Good-Mourning
Good-Mourning
Nina Tsuji, 2025, Japan, 9m
Japanese with English Subtitles
North American Premiere
Thirty-four-year-old Keiko Hasegawa is spending her days in her hometown while working at a funeral company. One day, Keiko is left with a strange funeral. Will she be able to complete today’s ceremony without any trouble?
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