Rainbow Reel Tokyo
Tokyo International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
Saturday, 21 June 2025 until Sunday, 22 June 2025 Saturday, 12 July 2025 until Sunday, 13 July 2025
‘Rainbow Reel Tokyo’ is a film festival which screens films with the theme of people who identify as sexual minorities. It was first held in 1992 with the name ‘Tokyo International Lesbian and Gay Movie Festival’, and this year will be the 32nd.
Rainbow Reel Tokyo does not screen films only about lesbian and gay people, but through the showing of films about people with different sexual minorities such as transgender, intersexual, and bisexual people, it aims to provide space to create a more diverse and free society, and because there is little opportunity for films about sexual minorities to be shown in major film theaters, it also aims to contribute to creating image culture by introducing these films from both Japan and overseas.
While it is a ‘festival’ for people who identify as sexual minorities to enjoy, it is open towards people of all kinds of sexual identities, and it has established itself as a ‘film screening event’ to casually experience the rich culture developed by people of sexual minorities.
2025 films...
記憶の鳥
A Bird Called Memory
いなくなった鳥を探すトランスジェンダー女性がリオの街を歩く。ロカルノ、トロントなど多数の国際映画祭で上映された短編。
A musical about Lua, a trans woman who has lost her pet bird in the streets of Rio de Janeiro, a city that can often be a hostile place for transgendered people.
More Films For Freedom 2022/2023
原題：Pássaro Memória
監督：レオナルド・マルティネリ
2023｜UK・ブラジル｜15分｜ポルトガル語
[ドラマ] / [T]
Original Title : Pássaro Memória
Director : Leonardo Martinelli
2023｜UK, Brazil｜15 min｜Portuguese
[Drama] / [T]
トランス・ハッピネス・イズ・リアル
Trans Happiness Is Real
トランスジェンダーの活動家がオックスフォードの街に出て、グラフィティを通して反トランスの感情と戦う模様を扱った、8分間の短編作品。
Young activists in Oxford wage a trans-positive graffiti war after discovering TERF stickers dotted around the city.
Five Films for Freedom 2021
監督：クイントン・ベイカー
2020｜UK｜8分｜英語
[ドキュメンタリー] / [T]
Director : Quinton Baker
2020｜UK｜8 min｜English
[Documentary] / [T]
レッツゴーTRUKユナイテッド！
We’ll Go Down in History
2021年に創設された英国のトランスジェンダー選手のサッカーチーム「TRUKユナイテッド」が、トランスヘイトの空気が高まる中、安全でインクルーシブなコミュニティを築こうとする苦難に満ちた歩みを2年間追い掛けたドキュメンタリー。
This heartfelt documentary tells the story of TRUK United, a grassroots, proudly trans football club, following the team as they strive to create a safe haven for their community in the face of rising transphobia.
Five Films for Freedom 2025
監督：キャメロン・リチャーズ、チャーリー・ティドマス
2025｜UK｜25分｜英語
[ドキュメンタリー] / [T]
Director : Cameron Richards, Charlie Tidmas
2025｜UK｜25 min｜English
[Documentary] / [T]
おいしい水に捧ぐ祈り
Prayers for Sweet Waters
南アフリカ、ケープタウン。3人のトランスジェンダー女性セックスワーカーがコロナ禍での心情を語るドキュメンタリー作品。
A submergence into the vivid realities of three Transgender sex workers living in Cape Town, South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic.
More Films For Freedom 2021/2022
監督：イライジャ・ヌンベ
2021｜UK・南アフリカ｜16分｜英語、フランス語、キルンディ語
[ドキュメンタリー] / [T]
Director : Elijah Ndoumbe
2021｜UK, South Africa｜16 min｜English, French, Kirundi
[Documentary] / [T]
5時のチャイム
The 5 O'Clock Chime
防災行政無線の5時のチャイムが鳴り響く中、主人公のセイジ はある青年との満たされなかった出会いに夢中になり、どんどん空想の世界に引き込まれていってしまう。
In Tokyo, an unfulfilled romantic encounter and sudden disappearance leave Seiji struggling to make sense of what never happened and what might have been.
監督：ジェイムズ・クーパー
2024｜UK・日本｜15分｜日本語
[ドラマ] / [G]
Director : James Cooper
2024｜UK, Japan｜15 min｜Japanese
[Drama] / [G]