Asian Avant-Garde Film Festival returns to Hong Kong's M+ for third edition
The event features experimental screenings, artist performances, plus a live music night Daham Park, David Boring, HKCR & more
The Asian Avant-Garde Film Festival (AAGFF) lands on May 29–31, 2026 at M+ in Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District.
This year's edition, titled Space Enter Shift, brings together filmmakers, artists, and musicians from across Asia for three days of screenings, performances, talks, and live acts.
Programming-wise, it spans a wide range of formats. The Festival Lounge, housed in the M+ Moving Image Centre, runs daily with free drop-in access and includes art installations, artist talks, a VR experience, and screen-printing workshops.
There will also be daily DJ sets from Korean sound artist Daham Park aka DJ YES YES, who maps a journey through Asian experimental, electronic, folk, and contemporary music each day.
On the screening side, the Spotlight on the Asian Avant-Garde Film Collection presents restored and rarely seen experimental films from the 1960s to 1990s, covering artists across East and Southeast Asia.
Read this next: Film featuring Ryuichi Sakamoto’s final performances to premiere at Venice Film Festival
The Unconscious Expanse programme brings together five short films exploring dreams, memory, and interiority.
Another worth noting is Emirati photographer Lamya Gargash and Singaporean sound artist Vivian Wang who will perform Tracking Nomadism (Live), pairing large-scale photography with a live electronic and environmental sound score.
On Saturday night, In the Zone: A Happening event takes over the Horizon Terrace at 8PM.
Read this next: Mixmag Asia curates Pulse/Drift film programme with Asian Film Archive
Daham Park leads the experimental music programme with DJ sets spanning traditional and electronic sounds from across Asia, joined by communal dance from Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts students.
Noise-rock band David Boring is set to perform songs from their latest album ‘Liminal Beings and Their Echoes’ and the night closes with a collaborative set featuring Park alongside Hong Kong Community Radio, Happy Wheels, and LifeWielder, with ambient animation by Zheng Mahler.
Full schedule and tickets here.
Amira Waworuntu is Mixmag Asia’s Managing Editor, follow her on Instagram.
Cut through the noise—sign up for our weekly Scene Report or follow us on Instagram to get the latest from Asia and the Asian diaspora!
