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Queer East
Wednesday, 23 April 2025 until Saturday, 24 May 2025
Queer East is a cross-disciplinary festival that showcases boundary-pushing LGBTQ+ cinema, live arts, and moving image work from East and Southeast Asia and its diaspora communities.
The festival was made by communities for communities. Its establishment is a direct response to the systemic lack of Asian representation on the big screen, on stage and behind the scenes. Working collaboratively with allies across the film, arts, and cultural sectors, we hope to join the forces bringing about change in screen culture and to enable an open space for everyone to explore the contemporary queer landscape across East and Southeast Asia.
The festival runs its main edition in venues across London, and has toured over 15 locations in the UK. We host screenings in cinemas, arts spaces, academic institutions, and cultural and community venues, and are committed to diverse programming: features, shorts, experimental films, and artists' moving image works are all welcome.
The sixth edition of the Queer East Festival is currently planned for April-May 2025 in venues across London, with its nationwide tour, On the Road, set to take place in autumn 2025.
Welcome to the sixth edition of Queer East Festival, featuring our most ambitious programme since our journey began in 2020.
Kubi (首)
Japan, 2023
23 April 2025, 6:00 PM
BFI Southbank
Feature, Opening Night, UK Premiere
Edhi Alice (에디 앨리스)
South Korea, 2024
18 May 2025, 7:30 PM
ICA
Feature, Q&A, UK Premiere
When the cloud catches colours
Singapore, 2023
24 April 2025, 7:45 PM
Barbican Centre
Theatre
Murmur of Youth
Taiwan, 1997
26 April 2025, 2:50 PM
BFI Southbank
Feature, Film
Rookie
Philippines, 2023
27 April 2025, 6:40 PM
BFI Southbank
Feature, Film
Extremely Unique Dynamic
US, 2024
28 April 2025, 6:00 PM
Rich Mix
Feature, UK Premiere
Under the Moonlight
Indonesia, 2023
29 April 2025, 6:00 PM
BFI Southbank
Documentary, Feature, Q&A
Some Nights I Feel Like Walking
Philippines, 2024
29 April 2025, 6:20 PM
Barbican Centre
Feature
Where is My Love?
Taiwan, 1996
30 April 2025, 6:15 PM
Barbican Centre
Feature
Incidental Journey
Taiwan, 2001
30 April 2025, 6:15 PM
Barbican Centre
Feature
A Journey in Spring (春行)
Taiwan, 2023
1 May 2025, 6:30 PM
ICA
Feature, Q&A, UK Premiere
Unmarried Mothers (未婚媽媽)
Taiwan, 1980
2 May 2025, 6:00 PM
Rich Mix
Feature
1 Girl Infinite (UK Premiere)
Multiple origins, 2025
3 May 2025, 3:30 PM
Rio Cinema
Feature, UK Premiere
Come Dance With Me (来来)
China, 2022
3 May 2025, 6:45 PM
Centre 151
Feature, UK Premiere
My Sunshine (ぼくのお日さま)
Multiple origins, 2024
4 May 2025, 3:15 PM
Rio Cinema
Feature
Silent Sparks (UK Premiere) (愛作歹)
Taiwan, 2024
5 May 2025, 6:30 PM
Rio Cinema
Feature, UK Premiere
Love and Videotapes (UK Premiere)
Philippines, 2024
9 May 2025, 6:20 PM
The Garden Cinema
Feature, UK Premiere
We Are Here
China, 2015
10 May 2025, 3:30 PM
Rio Cinema
Feature, Q&A
Batch ’81
Philippines, 1982
12 May 2025, 6:20 PM
Barbican Centre
Feature
Bel Ami (漂亮朋友)
France, 2024
13 May 2025, 6:10 PM
ICA
Feature, UK Premiere
Pierce
Multiple origins, 2024
14 May 2025, 6:20 PM
Barbican Centre
Feature
Looking for an Angel
Japan, 1999
15 May 2025, 6:30 PM
Barbican Centre
Feature
aWokening
Canada
16 May 2025, 7:30 PM
The Place
Dance
Kuch Sapney Apne (Dreams Such As Ours)
Multiple origins, 2024
17 May 2025, 4:45 PM
The Garden Cinema
Beyond, Feature
Crazy Love
Japan, 1968
17 May 2025, 6:00 PM
ICA
Feature, Q&A
Industry Day 2025
4 May 2025, 11:00 AM
BFI Southbank
{ guttural },,,{ fleshless }
26 Apr — 17 May
Queercircle
Art Exhibition
Parallel Voices: Queering (post-)Soviet Central Asia
28 April 2025, 7:00 PM
UCL East Community Cinema
Beyond
(Dis)orientalism: Queer Extensions and Looking East
30 April 2025, 8:00 PM
Rich Mix
Expanded
Floating in Ecosystems
3 May 2025, 1:00 PM
Rio Cinema
Beyond
Queered Out!
6 May 2025, 6:30 PM
Museum of the Home
Expanded, Workshop
Counter Archives: On Acts of Resistance and Remembrance
6 May 2025, 7:00 PM
ESEA Community Centre
Expanded, Workshop
Public Display
Multiple origins
8 May 2025, 6:30 PM
Museum of the Home
Short Form
Steamy Intimacies: A Shu Lea Cheang Special
8 May 2025, 7:45 PM
Sauna Social Club
Expanded
How (Not) To Be Seen
Multiple origins
9 May 2025, 8:30 PM
The Garden Cinema
Short Form
Things and Tingling
9 May 2025, 11:30 PM
Rio Cinema
Expanded
Here, There, or Somewhere Else
Multiple origins
10 May 2025, 2:00 PM
ESEA Community Centre
Short Form
★ (un)Imaginary Swords ☆
10 May 2025, 6:30 PM
Centre 151
Expanded
Homecomings
Multiple origins, 2024-25
11 May 2025, 12:30 PM
Museum of the Home
Short Form
Under Scales, Beyond Skin
11 May 2025, 4:30 PM
The Garden Cinema
Expanded
Floating Between Frontiers + Q&A
11 May 2025, 5:45 PM
Barbican Centre
Short Form
VISION//ERROR
13 May 2025, 7:00 PM
Rich Mix
Expanded, Performance
Self Portraits
14 May 2025, 7:00 PM
UCL East Community Cinema
Short Form
Land, Body and the Sacred: Filipina Ecotransfeminism
15 May 2025, 7:30 PM
Rich Mix
Expanded, Performance
Dancing in Your Wake
Multiple origins, 2024-25
17 May 2025, 2:30 PM
The Garden Cinema
Short Form
This is not a promise, but a prayer
Multiple Origins, 2024-25
17 May 2025, 12:30 PM
The Garden Cinema
Short Form
归/去 Belonging and Becoming: Queers Across the Waves
18 May 2025, 1:00 PM
Rich Mix
Short Form
A Sword, A Spectre, A Song
18 May 2025, 2:00 PM
ESEA Community Centre
Expanded, Workshop
Heartbeats and Hiccups
Multiple origins
18 May 2025, 3:15 PM
Rich Mix
Short Form
Screening Sex: Xuanlin Tham on Revolutionary Desires
27 April 2025, 3:00 PM
Book Talk
Of Cyborgs and Queer Body: Chi Ta-Wei on The Membranes
6 May 2025, 7:00 PM
The Common Press
Writing Queers: Shapes, Forms and Asianness
7 May 2025, 7:00 PM
Somerset House
Queering Objects II
11 May 2025, 2:30 PM
Museum of the Home
Poetry, Workshop
Vocal Parallels (Vokaldy paralelder)
2005
28 April 2025, 7:00 PM
UCL East Community Cinema
hard boil, soft centre
Singapore, 2024
30 April 2025, 8:00 PM
Rich Mix
Expanded
Penumbrae Question Shadow
UK, 2024
30 April 2025, 8:00 PM
Rich Mix
Expanded
Similar Disguise
China, 2020
30 April 2025, 8:00 PM
Rich Mix
Expanded
The Train of Memories
Taiwan, 2023
30 April 2025, 8:00 PM
Rich Mix
Expanded
Walker
Taiwan, 2012
30 April 2025, 8:00 PM
Rich Mix
Expanded
Strangers
Scotland, 2023
3 May 2025, 1:00 PM
Rio Cinema
Beyond
In the penumbra, the strange wave
Scotland, 2022
3 May 2025, 1:00 PM
Rio Cinema
Beyond
Fluid
Scotland, 2016
3 May 2025, 1:00 PM
Rio Cinema
Beyond
body is/as landscape
Scotland, 2020
3 May 2025, 1:00 PM
Rio Cinema
Beyond
In Conversation with
Scotland, 2024
3 May 2025, 1:00 PM
Rio Cinema
Beyond
Narratives and Counternarratives
Scotland, 2022
3 May 2025, 1:00 PM
Rio Cinema
Beyond
Wah Yen
Scotland, 2024
3 May 2025, 1:00 PM
Rio Cinema
Beyond
We *KNEAD* to Talk
UK, 2024
6 May 2025, 6:30 PM
Museum of the Home
Expanded