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13 stories on diaspora across film, TV, music, fashion, food, and diaspora culture.
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Well Go USA opens Wen Muye’s Once Upon a Time in the Middle East in U.S. and Canadian theaters October 9. Shen Teng leads the China summer hit about a Chinese chef whose restaurant becomes a wartime refuge.
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Sarnia-raised, Toronto-based actor-director Shreya Patel is MISAFF’s 2026 Rising Star. She hosts a symposium chat with Transplant lead Hamza Haq on October 1 as the Mississauga festival runs through October 4.
Image: Shreya Patel
Netflix greenlit Outback, an Australia-set Korean mystery from the webtoon G'Day, with Jung Ho-yeon, Ryu Jun-yeol, Hong Kyung, Won Ji-an, and Justin H. Min. No release date yet.
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Anushka Sen is the first Indian actor to headline a South Korean film. Jeju Olle wraps a three-year India-Korea bridge into a Jeju romance musical with a November multi-market release.
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Loved Madame in Saigon? Five Vietnamese films you can actually find next: Song Lang for Saigon stage world, The Third Wife for period power, Furie for action heat, The Scent of Green Papaya for the Oscar gateway, and Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell for Cannes slow cinema.
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Madame in Saigon opens Friday, August 28 in more than 200 North American theaters, after a Los Angeles premiere Wednesday with Thanh Hằng. The two-hour period drama draws on a real 1963 Saigon acid attack, and Hồng Ánh is the performance worth the ticket.
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Vietnam's defining supermodel developed the script for eight months, produced it, and played the dancer who gets destroyed. Madame in Saigon opens in North America this week after a domestic run that lost money.
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In Honolulu, Asian life spans Kalihi, Ala Moana, Waikīkī, and Kakaʻako without needing to perform for a white center. Mainland "Asian American" culture often sells the polished slice. Here the range just reads as local.
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Li Sitong was a Jieyang finance student when a Douyin search made her the lead of Dear You. The film is already a roughly $291 million hit. September 4 is whether North America learns her name.
Image: Well Go USA / Damai Entertainment
Take Off opens in U.S. theaters September 17, giving Pengfei’s warm, working-class flight story a wider run after Tokyo, New York, and a $12 million Chinese release.
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Dear You turned a $2.1 million Teochew-language family drama into a roughly $291 million global hit. Its new U.S. trailer sets up a Sept. 4 release after an earlier North American date vanished and Well Go USA took the handoff.
Image: Well Go USA / Damai Entertainment
OUT Museum, a bilingual one-room space at 949 Clay Street, bills itself as the world’s first Chinese queer museum. Founder Xiangqi Chen built it so Chinese LGBTQ+ artists from China and the diaspora can be seen in public, including work that cannot safely circulate at home.
Image: Cecilia Lei / COYOTE Media Collective
The first wave of NYAFF 2026 titles runs July 10–26, with Yeon Sang-ho's Colony opening, Joan Chen receiving a lifetime honor, and 50+ filmmakers set to attend across five New York venues.
Image: New York Asian Film Festival / Wikimedia Commons
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