{"id":795472,"date":"2026-05-14T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T09:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/795472\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T09:00:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T09:00:27","slug":"new-york-asian-film-festival-to-open-with-yeon-sang-hos-colony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/795472\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Asian Film Festival To Open With Yeon Sang-ho\u2019s \u2018Colony\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE:<\/strong> New York Asian Film Festival<\/a> is celebrating its 25th edition with the North American premiere of Yeon Sang-ho<\/a>\u2019s Colony<\/a> as its opening night film.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tYeon\u2019s zombie thriller, which is receiving its world premiere here in Cannes\u2019 Midnight Screenings section, stars Gianna Jun (My Sassy Girl) as a biotechnology professor attending a conference where a terrifying virus breaks out. Korean studio Showbox<\/a> has already sold the film to more than 120 territories, including Well Go USA for North America.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIn addition to screening Colony at NYAFF, Yeon will also present a new 4K restoration of\u00a0Train To Busan, one of his first films to reinvent the zombie genre, in celebration of the film\u2019s 10th anniversary.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWell Go USA is releasing both films theatrically later this summer, beginning with the 4K re-release of Train To Busan on August 14, before Colony arrives in theaters on August 28.<\/p>\n

\n\tNYAFF is taking place July 10-26, 2026, at the Lincoln Center, SVA Theatre, Look Cinemas and Korean Cultural Center New York.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYeon Sang-ho\u2019s Colony introduces a new physical grammar for the zombies, formally revolutionary and viscerally tense, and unlike anything else in the genre right now,\u201d said NYAFF President Samuel Jamier.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cOpening NYAFF\u2019s 25th edition alongside a 10th-anniversary 4K restoration of Train To Busan, both courtesy of Well Go USA Entertainment, this event marks the most contagious moment for Korean genre cinema in New York since Train To Busan first arrived a decade ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDoris Pfardrescher, President and CEO of Well Go USA Entertainment, said: \u201cAs NYAFF celebrates its 25th anniversary, there\u2019s no more fitting way to honor the festival\u2019s legacy than by showcasing one of the defining filmmakers in modern genre cinema.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to have the North American premiere of Colony alongside a special 4K revival of Train To Busan, a landmark work that forever changed the zombie genre. For 25 years, NYAFF has championed bold, visionary Asian cinema, and these two films represent exactly the kind of unforgettable theatrical experiences the festival was built to celebrate.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPresented by the New York Asian Film Foundation in collaboration with Film at Lincoln Center since 2010, NYAFF has evolved into North America\u2019s leading festival dedicated to Asian film culture. Starting out as a genre-focused festival, championing the early works of then-rising filmmakers such as Johnnie To and Bong Joon Ho, it has grown into the largest Asian cinema showcase in North America, with more than 20,000 attendees.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn recent years, the festival has also screened the work of internationally acclaimed contemporary auteurs, as well as introducing emerging filmmakers from developing countries and underrepresented regions across Asia.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tLast year\u2019s edition featured eight world premieres, more than 75 North American premieres, and 17 filmmakers making their directorial debuts. Guests at the 24th edition included Tadanobu Asano, Heo Sung-tae, Ekin Cheng, Lisa Lu, and rising star Natalie Hsu, with more than 30 filmmakers participating in post-screening discussions throughout the festival.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe festival\u2019s Uncaged Competition \u2013 which highlights visionary filmmakers challenging cinematic conventions \u2013 last year handed its top award for Best Feature Film to Family Matters, from Taiwanese filmmaker Pan Ke-Yin. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Way We Talk, from Hong Kong\u2019s Adam Wong, won the Audience Award, while Skin Of Youth, from Vietnam\u2019s Ash Mayfair, received the Special Jury Award.<\/p>\n

\n\tNYAFF will announce the full line-up for the 2026 edition, including special guests, anniversary screenings and restorations, in coming weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: New York Asian Film Festival is celebrating its 25th edition with the North American premiere of Yeon…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":795473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,31085,405,324604,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,324605,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,123338],"class_list":{"0":"post-795472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-colony","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-asian-film-festival","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-showbox","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa","24":"tag-yeon-sang-ho"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116572116015251637","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}