10 standout Asian films travel to four Dutch cities as CinemAsia continues beyond Amsterdam…
Although the CinemAsia Film Festival concluded in Amsterdam on 15 April, the programme continues beyond the capital through CinemAsia On Tour. The touring programme brings ten films to four cities across the Netherlands, including eight festival favourites and two newly programmed titles. Each city will screen three to five films from the selection.
Among the highlights is the festival’s closing film The Waves Will Carry Us, a multigenerational exploration of diasporic family history that reflects on questions of identity and belonging. Several award-winning titles are also part of the tour, including Miyake Sho’s Two Seasons, Two Strangers, winner of the Golden Leopard at the 2025 Locarno Film Festival, and Adam Wong’s The Way We Talk, which earned Chung Suet Ying the Best Leading Actress award at the 61st Golden Horse Awards. Bi Gan’s ambitious epic Resurrection will screen at one of the venues ahead of its wider Dutch release.
The On Tour programme also introduces two newly added films: Linka Linka from China and Singing Wings from Iran. Linka Linka had its European premiere at the 28th Far East Film Festival in Udine this past April.
A still from Linka Linka (2025)
Directed by Kangdrun, Linka Linka follows Samgyi, a young woman who returns to Tibet after studying in Shanghai and Beijing. Intending to make a film about her childhood, she instead finds herself caught in an ongoing series of arguments with her father. A chance reunion with Lhamo, an old friend and the original inspiration for her project, brings long-buried memories sharply back into focus.
Set in a Kurdish mountain village, Singing Wings by Hemen Khaledi centres on Khadijeh, who nurses an injured stork while her youngest daughter prepares to emigrate to the United Kingdom. Through these parallel journeys of human displacement and animal migration, the film reflects the difficult balance between holding on and letting go.
Full list of films screening during CinemAsia On Tour:
10s Across the Borders (Philippines, Singapore, Germany, 2025) | dir. Chan Sze-WeiAmoeba (Singapore, Netherlands, France, Spain, South Korea, 2025) | dir. Tan SiyouBel Ami (France, 2024) | dir. Geng JunLinka Linka (China, 2025) | dir. KangdrunPinch (India, USA, 2025) | dir. Uttera SinghResurrection (China, France, 2025) | dir. Bi GanSinging Wings (Iran, Georgia, Belgium, 2025) | dir. Hemen KhalediThe Waves Will Carry Us (Taiwan, 2025) | dir. Lau Kek-HuatThe Way We Talk (Hong Kong, 2024) | dir. Adam WongTwo Seasons, Two Strangers (Japan, 2025) | dir. Miyake ShoCinemAsia On Tour 2026 runs from May to June at Filmhuis Den Haag, Kino Rotterdam, Lumière Maastricht, and Forum Groningen. For more information, visit cinemasia.nl/en/About the author
Yasmine Chan
Yasmine Chan is a Netherlands‑based film writer and programmer specialising in Asian cinema and socially engaged film criticism.
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