The full programme of #QueerEast Festival 2026 is here!
Discover LGBTQ+ cinema, performances, and arts from East and Southeast Asia and beyond, taking place 1 May - 6 June in venues across London.
Full line-up: queereast.org.uk/festival-2026/
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Dans Leandro Leeme baise Javi Berlin (TimTales), le riding cartographie le dรฉsir : Javi chevauche face/ dos, cow-boy sur bite gรฉante, prend le contrรดle. Missionnaire โ cowgirl : vulnรฉrabilitรฉ post-soviรฉtique โ rรฉsistance queer. โ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
#GayAesthetics #QueerEast #TimTales
Queer East Festival Goes on the Road. #QueerEast touring program is back! @queereast.bsky.social
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๐ฅ Sometimes I Feel Like Walking
A teenage runaway meets street hustlers at a Manila bus terminal.
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29 October
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6/6
๐ฅ My Sunshine
On a small Japanese island, a coach mentors two young figure skaters.
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19 October
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5/6
๐ฅ Edhi Alice
A moving self-reflexive documentary from South Korea following two trans women.
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25 October
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4/6
๐ฅ A Journey in Spring
An elderly Taiwanese couple confront heartache and regret in this raw portrait of domestic life.
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11 October
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3/6
๐ฅ 1 Girl Infinite
A stylish debut exploring the intense bond between two teenage girls in Changsha, China.
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8 October
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2/6
๐ฌ๐ฒ #QueerEast is #OnTheRoad to Chester this October for a month of festival favourites from East and Southeast Asia and beyond. ๐
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An evocative sketch of the avant-garde zeitgeist that will make the spectator question the (demands of the) societal Other: CRAZY LOVE โ
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Editor Hoping Chen
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Bel Ami - Escalating arguments, weird kinks, ๅทดๅทดโs, oh my. Other than when it plays sexual assault as a gag (in 2024? Do better), Jun Gengโs vision of loneliness, communist past and the best and worst of queer love is as delightfully, enchantingly oddball and considerate as to be forgiven.
An Asian fencing thriller with a Polish look โ PIERCE โ
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, the debut of Nelicia Low, delivers a masterfully crafted story that tackles a hot topic: codependent relationships. Screening as part of #QueerEast #fencing @MagnoliaPics @magnifyfilms
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A still from the film A Journey In Spring. An elderly Taiwanese couple ride on a bus, looking in different directions.
Peng Tzu-hui and Wang Ping-wen discuss A Journey In Spring www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2025... #QueerEast #filmsky ๐ฌ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
When his wife dies, an old man keeps her body in the freezer as he contemplates their past and tries to find a way forwards, in A Journey In Spring www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/a-jou... #QueerEast #filmsky ๐ฌ ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Back in #London! Copies of my queer sci-fi novel "The Membranes" are NOW AVAILABLE at @thecommonpress.bsky.social โa wonderful space supporting trans rights. Join me & So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social on Tuesday, 6 May to discuss cyborgs+ queer futures. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ #queereast
Tickets: outsavvy.com/event/26711
A simple, joyous look at transgender issues and community resilience in Indonesia: UNDER THE MOONLIGHT โ
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If you think basketball can make girls gay, wait until you see every sport. Rookie attempts too much and mainly abides by the book, yet rules out the conventions we donโt need to see in favour of good volleyball and pure, wholesome love. Eccentric and satisfying; but most of all, fun-fun.
A still from the film 1 Girl Infinite. Two Chinese teenage girls, one with a black and white striped top and dark hair, the other with a heart-patterned top and bright orange hair, ride a moped across a bridge.
Unspoken emotions in the relationship between teenage roommates in Changsha come flooding to the surface when one of them hooks up with a drug dealer, in 1 Girl Infinite www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/1-gir... #QueerEast #FilmSky ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ๐ฌ ๐
๐ฌ๐ง ๐น๐ผ ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐Honored to join the #QueerEast Festival 2025 in #London:
๐1st Event๐ค May 6, 7PM: Presenting " #TheMembranes" at Common Press
๐ 2nd Event๐May 7, 7PM: Conversation with Eric Yip and Ewen Ma at Somerset House
Details: queereast.org.uk/festival-2025/@queereast.bsky.social
Queer East Festival: On The Road will head out across the country from September to December, offering its biggest tour yet. #QueerEast #LGBTQIA cineramafilm.com/2024/09/12/q...
Director Carl Joseph E. Papa and producer Geoderic Lomuntad
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The Missing is Carl Papaโs best yet. Could have been heavy-handed yet feels so achingly real and whole, warping realism without sacrificing humanity, benefitted by the fragile, alien quality of its rotoscoping. Shows just how lucky we are to be loved; canโt say Iโve seen anything like it.
