‘Queer’ Asia Film Festival is back with five days of films from all over Asia. The film festival this year show cases 30 films including the first ever ‘Queer’ Asia Short Shorts, a collection of 22 short films from countries including China, India, Myanmar, Thailand, and Lebanon. The second installment of Queer Asia’s annual Film Festival focuses on the theme of Bodies X Borders to be screened in June 2018 in London. Bodies X Borders evokes frames of visualising queer bodies transgressing (norms, nations, identities) in a fast changing global world.
More details on the films (in order of appearance) at this year’s festival can be found at the links below:
24th June 2018, Stevenson LT, The British Museum
Poshida. Pakistan/ UK. Urdu/English. 2016
Screaming Goats. Thailand. Thai. 2017
Lanang (Time for poetry to shine). Indonesia. Javanese. 2017
Inaayat. India. Hindi/English. 2017
Reality Fragment 160921. Sweden/ USA/ China. Mandarin/ English. 2017
Our Vaginas, Ourselves. China. Mandarin.
Slay. The Philippines. Filipino. 2017
Front Cover. Hong Kong. Mandarin/English. 2015
25th June 2018, Khalili LT, SOAS, U. of London
Ka Bodyscapes. India. Malayalam. 2016 (University of Warwick)
My Son is Gay. India. Tamil. 2017 (SOAS)
27th June 2018, Paul Webley Wing, SOAS, U. of London
Carlos Jauregui: The Unforgettable Fag. Argentina. Spanish. 2016
Rarely Normal. China. Mandarin. 2017
Haki Fadi (Empty Talks). UK/Palestine. Arabic. 2017
Re-births. France/ Russia/ China/ Peru. French/ English/ Russian/ Spanish. 2018
28th June 2018, Paul Webley Wing, SOAS, U. of London
Journey. Thailand/ USA. Thai/ English. 2017
Close Friends. China. Cantonese. 2017
Smokers Die Slowly Together. China. Mandarin. 2017
Chi Chu. China. Mandarin. 2017
Way to content. China. Mandarin. 2017
Crossing Bridges. Canada/ Indonesia. English. 2016
Unconditional Love. Myanmar. Burmese. 2016
Mo Bai. Canada/ China. Mandarin. 2017
Is it too much to ask? India. English. 2017
29th June 2018, BP LT, The British Museum
Hong Kong Transgender Stories. Hong Kong. Cantonese. 2016
Pink Pill. China. Mandarin. 2017
Linceul. Lebanon. French. 2017
Sisak. India. Silent Film. 2017
Tritiya. India. Malayalam. 2017
A Thousand Years to Love. Myanmar. Burmese. 2017
Where are you from? UK/China. Visual Performance. 2017
Ka Bodyscapes. India. Malayalam. 2016