ENCORE: Queer Asian World Cinema
SATELLITE SCREENING. Four films moving between memory, diaspora, and dream where identity flickers, stretches, and insists on being seen. Watch anytime between September 11-21.
Watch anytime between September 11-21. A dance floor turned into history. A teenager seeing themselves clearly at last. Two best friends holding onto one last summer. A collective built against silence.
After screenings in Los Angeles, Oakland, and San Francisco, we can’t wait to bring Queer Asian World Cinema to you online! These queer and trans films combine local and transnational (translocal) stories from the Asian diaspora.
The Films
STAY HOT STAY CHILL
As she prepares the 20th anniversary of LEZS Party, founder AJ reflects on two decades of creating Taiwan’s most iconic lesbian gathering, revealing how one woman’s nightlife vision became a cultural force for visibility and equality.
Memoria
Under the weight of religious expectation, a teenager sifts through layered memories and reflections until they finally see the person they have always been.
Stroke of Dreams
Two best friends share joyful, summer rituals before the start of their first college semester.
Because of You: A History of Kilawin Kolektibo
Joyful, raw, revolutionary: Because of You: A History of Kilawin Kolektibo tells the remarkable story of queer Filipnxs who, in the 1990s, against a racist, lesbophobic backdrop, came together for the first time in NYC to create a safe and loving community.
