Queer East’s Film Industry Day is the second iteration of our initiative connecting curators, programmers, filmmakers, critics, and students. Focused on queer and Asian cinema, the line-up includes ta...

Is male pregnancy the solution to a declining birthrate? Can stem cell furniture help us grieve for our loved ones? In this speculative programme, bodies fuse with technology or metamorphose via mirac...

We often mistake the repetitive for the stagnant. But for the queer and diasporic body, repetition is a sacred technology of survival. This programme reframes the mundane as a site of power, where eve...

Cheol-jun has become close friends with many people, but he conceals the fact that he is gay from them. Contending with feelings of isolation and longing for deeper connection, he summons up the coura...

CONG/SPIRACY reclaims cong—a weaponised Indonesian slur once hurled at queer bodies—and twists it into a tactic: a whispered code, a conspiratorial language shared by those surviving in the shadows of...

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Calling all crybabies! Tears are most commonly associated with sadness, yet trickle through a wider spectrum of overwhelming feelings. Oscillating between the mundane and the spectacular, salty drople...

Violent tendencies and good table manners are never far apart in the films of Mari Terashima. Her work often plays on the double meaning of “taste”— both a marker of refinement and class, and a violen...

Program director Yi Wang discusses the program for the seventh edition, the fest's growth since its launch during the COVID pandemic and how the past can elucidate the future.

Plotholes and Detours brings together works from Turkey and its diasporas, where narration is never singular, stable, or safe. Across satire, suspense, and essayistic drift, these films expose how “st...

Queer East returns with a stack of UK premieres this summer.

Queer East returns on 1 May for our seventh instalment, and we are seeking a team of enthusiastic volunteers to join us in delivering this year’s festival. Queer East volunteers will not only gain han...