Welcome to the Asian Avant-Garde Film Festival 2025 at M+, a vibrant three-day celebration of the many diverse independent moving image practices that have shaped Asia's artistic landscape over the past six decades. Through screenings, exhibitions, performances, talks, workshops, and live acts, the Asian Avant-Garde Film Festival celebrates the rich history of interdisciplinary moving image practice through the M+ lens of visual culture.

Supported by CHANEL, the second edition of the Asian Avant-Garde Film Festival focuses on the theme of time, demonstrating the profound ways artists and filmmakers engage with this concept through a medium intrinsically linked to duration. Time, an unyielding force that shapes all existence, is materialised and conceptualised through screenings, performances, and installations that highlight its fluid, cyclical, measured, manufactured, and abstract qualities. These works range from historical reenactments that interrogate notions of truth, nostalgia, and memory to speculative explorations of virtual and futuristic realms where time is artificially manipulated, as well as innovative uses of film as a physical medium for measuring time itself.

Headline guests at the Asian Avant-Garde Film Festival 2025 include May Fung, Ho Tzu Nyen, Tehching Hsieh, Amar Kanwar, Ali Wong Kit Yi, and Chikako Yamashiro. Ho Tzu Nyen will collaborate with independent singer-songwriter Wong Hin Yan on a new live-cinema performance at the Grand Stair, and all headline guests will participate in a full programme of screenings, workshops, and discussions across the three-day festival.