Queer Asian Spirit
CLOSING NIGHT SCREENING: Six films that ask what it means to carry a history forward and make it yours.
The closing night screening centers Asian American and queer stories, about belonging and in-betweenness, ancestors and the trails they left, community spaces worth fighting for, and the people who keep showing up.
With our second annual Queer Asian World Cinema satellite screenings, we wanted to program a companion that grounds Queer Asian America (and the West/Global North). In our histories, in our traditions, and in our ability to create something new from the old.
The Films
Between Us
Between Us follows queer Khmer and Vietnamese cultural workers in Southern California as they sit with the in-betweenness, of belonging, healing, and making space on their own terms.
autism is an altar
In autism is an altar, an Autistic Japanese American explores the connections between their Disabled and Asian American lineages through a trip to Angel Island.
Flow
In Flow, a Chinese American young woman navigates lifelong pressure and expectations, working out what it means to live on her own timeline.
Yu & Me
After a fire destroys a beloved Chinatown bookstore, Yu & Me follows its fiercely independent owner as she learns that community is what survival actually looks like.
Superfan No. 1
In Superfan No. 1, a seven-year-old South Asian girl is about to discover a massive secret about her hero, her father.
Đồng Quể: Of the Same Womb
Đồng Quê: Of the Same Womb follows 13 queer and trans Vietnamese artists returning to their ancestral homeland. The film holds space for grief, resilience, and reclamation, and for the connections between queer and trans Vietnamese people, their families, and the broader communities they come from.
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