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Section: NEXT
Director: Kogonada
Screenwriter: Kogonada
Logline: In Hong Kong, a young woman haunted by visions of her future self meets a stranger who changes the course of her night — and possibly her life.
Panelists: Koganada, Haley Lu Richardson, Michelle Mao, Jin Ha
Premiered: January 24, 2026
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Key Quote: “The way we did this, of starting with this very minimal, profound and specific but minimal, outline and then a little bit of improvising, writing on the day in the moment… it was such a purely collaborative, instinctual, in-the-moment experience.” – Haley Lu Richardson
“There’s a lot of layers of stuff that I care about but I don’t want to articulate, but even Hong Kong and the city, and what that represents and where they stand on the global world and being colonized and all of that… there’s a lot of personal elements to this film.” – Kogonada
The Deadline Studio at Sundance is presented by Casamigos.
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