Director: James Wan

Cast: Jason Momoa, Ludi Lin

Producers: Walter Hamada, Chantal Nong

Synopsis: Once home to the most advanced civilization on Earth, the city of Atlantis is now an underwater kingdom ruled by the power-hungry King Orm. With a vast army at his disposal, Orm plans to conquer the remaining oceanic people — and then the surface world. Standing in his way is Aquaman, Orm’s half-human, half-Atlantean brother and true heir to the throne. With help from royal counselor Vulko, Aquaman must retrieve the legendary Trident of Atlan and embrace his destiny as protector of the deep.

Why Open: A hapa Pacific Islander lead with an international Australian Asian director made what was once a laughed-at-superhero into one of the coolest. Wan has also now become the only director in history to have two multi-billion dollar film franchises for two different studios (#WanBillion).

Cast: Utkarsh Ambudkar, Alice Lee

Synopsis: A woman living in New York takes control of her life–one block at a time.

Cast: Priyanka Chopra

Synopsis: New York City architect Natalie works hard to get noticed at her job but is more likely to be asked to deliver coffee and bagels than to design the city’s next skyscraper. And if things weren’t bad enough, Natalie, a lifelong cynic when it comes to love, has an encounter with a mugger that renders her unconscious, waking to discover that her life has suddenly become her worst nightmare — a romantic comedy — and she is the leading lady.

Director: Jia Zhangke

Cast: Zhao Tao, Xu Zheng, Liao Fan, Casper Liang

Synopsis:

Qiao is in love with Bin, a local mobster.

During a fight between rival gangs, she fires a gun to protect him. Qiao gets five years in prison for this act of loyalty.

Upon her release, she goes looking for Bin to pick up where they left off.

Cast: Dev Patel, Anupam Kher

Synopsis: A gripping true story of humanity and heroism, HOTEL MUMBAI vividly recounts the 2008 siege of the famed Taj Hotel by a group of terrorists in Mumbai, India. Among the dedicated hotel staff is the renowned chef Hemant Oberoi (Anupam Kher) and a waiter (Academy Award-Nominee Dev Patel, Slumdog Millionaire) who choose to risk their lives to protect their guests. As the world watches on, a desperate couple (Armie Hammer, Call Me By Your Name and Nazanin Boniadi, “Homeland”) is forced to make unthinkable sacrifices to protect their newborn child.

Director: Eric Khoo
Cast: Tsuyoshi Ihara, Seiko Matsuda, Takumi Saitoh, Shogen, Jeanette Aw and more

Synopsis: When a young ramen chef from Japan finds his late Singaporean mother’s journal, he takes it with him to her native country, hoping to put together the story of his family and his life.

Director: Gan Bi
Writer: Gan Bi
Cast: Wei Tang, Jue Huang, Sylvia Chang
Synopsis:

Luo Hongwu returns to Kaili, the hometown from which he fled 12 years earlier. As memories of an enigmatic and beautiful woman resurface – a woman he loved and whom he has never been able to forget – Luo Hongwu begins his search for her. Past and present, reality and dream interweave in Bi Gan’s stunningly beautiful and highly innovative film noir.

Cast: Pom Klementieff, Dave Bautista, Benedict Wong, Hiroyuku Sanada

Producer: Trinh Tran

Marketing: Asad Ayaz

Synopsis: After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War (2018), the universe is in ruins due to the efforts of the Mad Titan, Thanos. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers must assemble once more in order to undo Thanos’ actions and restore order to the universe once and for all, no matter what consequences may be in store.

Why Open: Sure; it’s a big budget film in the most lucrative franchise in history–so why do they need us? Because we have to celebrate its lead Asian (especially hapas!) cast and honor Trinh Tran, its incredible Executive Producer who’s the right hand to the directing Russo Brothers. We also need to celebrate Marvel’s Marketing Chief, Asad Ayaz.