Asian Crossroads
Discover the most exciting films to come from Earth’s largest continent this year with SIFF’s Asian Crossroads program. Selected films represent a diverse collection of genres from across the regions and cultures of Central, East, and South Asia.
Between Goodbyes
USA | 2024 | 96 min. | Jota Mun
A Dutch adoptee and her Korean birth parents try to build familial bonds across languages and cultural differences.
Blue Sun Palace
USA | 2024 | 116 min. | Constance Tsang
Two Queens-based Chinese immigrants grieve over a mutual friend’s tragic death in Constance Tsang’s Cannes-winning debut.
Boong
India | 2024 | 93 min. | Lakshmipriya Devi
A schoolboy and his best friend journey to Moreh to investigate dubious claims that his father has passed.
The Botanist
China | 2025 | 96 min. | Jing Yi
A lonely Kazakh boy in touch with the wonders of nature befriends a local Han girl, only for modernity to intervene.
By the Stream
South Korea | 2024 | 111 min. | Hong Sang-soo
A lecturer calls upon her retired uncle to write and direct a play for her students.
Cloud
Japan | 2024 | 124 min. | Kiyoshi Kurosawa
A genre-bending potboiler about a parasitic internet reseller who runs afoul of revenge-seeking vigilantes.
Fly Me to the Moon
Hong Kong | 2023 | 112 min. | Sasha Chuk
Yuen struggles to adapt to her new surroundings and social class when she emigrates from Mainland China to 1990s Hong Kong.
Happyend
Japan | 2024 | 113 min. | Neo Sora
In a near-future Tokyo, a multiethnic band of politically aware teens protest their high school’s draconian new surveillance system.
Little Red Sweet
Hong Kong | 2024 | 92 min. | Vincent Chow
A family struggles to keep their traditional dessert shop open in the face of illness, generational desires, and gentrification.
Luz
Hong Kong | 2025 | 102 min. | Flora Lau
A dual narrative about finding familial intimacy in a virtual reality world.
Meeting with Pol Pot
France | 2024 | 113 min. | Rithy Panh
Three French journalists in 1978 Cambodia learn the terrible truth about the Khmer Rouge regime.
Summer's Camera
South Korea | 2025 | 82 min. | Divine Sung
A high school girl navigates first love while uncovering her late father’s secret life in this gorgeously shot feature debut.
To Kill a Mongolian Horse
Malaysia | 2024 | 97 min. | Xiaoxuan Jiang
A champion horseback rider and herdsman struggles to maintain his family’s ranch.