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Festival:

Queer East 2025

Fri 09 May 2025 — Sat 17 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. Our sixth edition runs from 23 April to 18 May 2025 in venues across London, exploring notions of what it means to be queer and Asian today.

Upcoming Screenings

Love and Videotapes (UK Premiere) 18

In the summer of 2001, in a small town in the Philippines, 16-year-old Andoy searches for his long-lost father: in VHS… Read More

Screened in partnership with Queer East

Ryan Machado, Philippines, 2024, 97m.

Fri 09 May

How (Not) To Be Seen 18

Invisibility has often been a key survival technique for queer individuals, allowing them to blend seamlessly into a straight world by… Read More

Screened in partnership with Queer East

Various Directors , Various Countries, Various Years, 94m.

Fri 09 May

Under Scales, Beyond Skin 18

In celebration of the Year of the Snake, this programme coils itself around the serpent as a symbol of transformation and… Read More

Screened in partnership with Queer East

Various Directors, Various Countries, Various Years, 79m.

Sun 11 May

This is not a promise, but a prayer 18

In a world plagued by genocides, the climate crisis, and the erasure of cultures, this short film programme explores how queer… Read More

Screened in partnership with Queer East

Various Directors, Various Countries, Various Years, 81m.

Sat 17 May

Dancing in Your Wake 18

We’re all haunted – by lost loves, past selves, secrets and societal demands. In this dynamic programme, queer characters and communities… Read More

Screened in partnership with Queer East

Various Directors , Various Years, Various Countries, 97m.

Sat 17 May

Kuch Sapney Apne (Dreams Such As Ours) 18

This heartwarming Indian drama is about the struggles of a loving gay couple, Kartik and Aman, who live in Mumbai. Their… Read More

Screened in partnership with Queer East

Sridhar Rangayan, India, Sweden, 2024, 120m.

Sat 17 May