Queer East Festival
Queer East is a cross-disciplinary festival that showcases boundary-pushing LGBTQIA+ cinema, live arts and moving image work from East and Southeast Asia, and its diaspora communities.
For its fifth edition, playing across London, the festival explores notions of what it means to be queer and Asian today.
17-28 April 2024
Saving Face + recorded intro from writer and critic Jinghua Qian
A lesbian and her traditionalist mother are reluctant to reveal their secret loves.
Abang Adik + recorded intro by director Jin Ong
Two Malaysian brothers choose divergent paths of survival.
Summer Vacation 1999 + intro by Ren Scateni
A boy who resembles a recently deceased student arrives at a remote boarding school.
Closing Night: Bye Bye Love – 50th anniversary screening + recorded intro by director Isao Fujisawa
Two young people take a doomed road trip through Japan in this rediscovered classic.
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