For 2024, Queer East Festival launches its fifth year milestone with a remarkable line up of film screenings, arts and performance events across London from 17 to 28 April 2024 and then across the UK later in the year. The programme includes contemporary feature films, documentaries and shorts as well as special anniversary and retrospective screenings that showcase a wide range of LGBTQ+ stories from East Asia, Southeast Asia and their diaspora communities.
Queer East Festival's ground-breaking film programme challenges conventions and stereotypes giving audiences an opportunity to explore the contemporary queer landscape across East and Southeast Asia. Amplifying the voices of Asian communities are the UK Premieres of features, documentaries and shorts exploring young queer love, gender nonconformity and asexual identity, as well as thought-provoking classics with the 20th Anniversary screening of Chinese-American romantic comedy Saving Face and 50th Anniversary screening of the once-considered-lost Japanese title Bye Bye Love. Furthermore, the festival's ‘Expanded'...
Queer East Festival's ground-breaking film programme challenges conventions and stereotypes giving audiences an opportunity to explore the contemporary queer landscape across East and Southeast Asia. Amplifying the voices of Asian communities are the UK Premieres of features, documentaries and shorts exploring young queer love, gender nonconformity and asexual identity, as well as thought-provoking classics with the 20th Anniversary screening of Chinese-American romantic comedy Saving Face and 50th Anniversary screening of the once-considered-lost Japanese title Bye Bye Love. Furthermore, the festival's ‘Expanded'...
- 3/20/2024
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Despite the fact that she started her career as an actress and now mostly directs TV series, Hana Matsumoto still manages to direct the occasional feature, with “Dadadada Seventeen” being her most renowned work as of now. Her latest movie is based on the novel “Akegata no Wakamonotachi” by Masahiko Katsuse and looks like a typical Japanese romance, before it is revealed as something a bit more “unusual” than one would expect.
“End of the Pale Hour” is screening at Nippon Connection
The story begins in Tokyo in March, 2012, where the nameless protagonist is about to graduate from university and has just been invited to a gathering of “winners” who have received job offers from well-known corporations. While there, he meets a nameless woman, who, a few moments later, invites him to have a drink with her. He leaves the party, meets her at a nearby park, under the shadow...
“End of the Pale Hour” is screening at Nippon Connection
The story begins in Tokyo in March, 2012, where the nameless protagonist is about to graduate from university and has just been invited to a gathering of “winners” who have received job offers from well-known corporations. While there, he meets a nameless woman, who, a few moments later, invites him to have a drink with her. He leaves the party, meets her at a nearby park, under the shadow...
- 5/28/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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