zi

Director: Kogonada .

2026 / 99min / DCP

“Poetic, political, and above all incontrovertibly material” [The New Yorker], Kogonada’s fourth feature, the experimental drama zi, follows the title character, played by Michelle Mao, a concert violinist whose aimless peregrinations through the streets of Hong Kong are interrupted by visions of what may be either her past or future, a condition she attempts to explain to a new American acquaintance (Haley Lu Richardson, Columbus) while a stranger (Jin Ha) observes the pair from a distance. A valentine to the textures and colors of the Fragrant Harbor as seen by night, featuring music by the late Ryuichi Sakamoto, the formally audacious, shot-on-the-fly zi is a film of unusual delicacy and reserve, one whose air of mystery abides long after the credits have rolled.