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
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Saving Face + intro
A lesbian and her traditionalist mother are reluctant to reveal their secret loves.
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Summer Vacation 1999 + intro
A boy who resembles a recently deceased student arrives at a remote boarding school.
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Closing Night: Bye Bye Love – 50th anniversary screening + intro
Two young people take a doomed road trip through Japan in this rediscovered classic.
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