Queer Asian World Cinema at Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
Deep connections to Asian American lineages. A dance floor turned into history. Seeking acceptance from family. A teenager seeing themselves clearly at last. Two best friends holding onto one last summer. A poem in honor of our caretakers. A collective built against silence. Love imagined before birth. Seven films moving between memory, diaspora, and dream […]
Deep connections to Asian American lineages. A dance floor turned into history. Seeking acceptance from family. A teenager seeing themselves clearly at last. Two best friends holding onto one last summer. A poem in honor of our caretakers. A collective built against silence. Love imagined before birth. Seven films moving between memory, diaspora, and dream where identity flickers, stretches, and insists on being seen.
We are excited to turn the Queer Asian World Cinema screening into an annual event. This year, we partnered with the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival presented by Visual Communications. We combined films from our 2026 QWOCFF along with queer and trans API films from our Film & Freedom Academy catalog into a powerful combination of 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.
Home Visit
In Home Visit, a queer couple prepares lunch for one of their mothers, hoping the meal might change her mind about their relationship.
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.
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.
Stroke of Dreams
Two best friends share joyful, summer rituals before the start of their first college semester.
Enjoy the View
Enjoy The View is a recollection of memory in honor of caretakers everywhere.
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.
