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Queer East Film Festival

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Festivals

Time in the Flesh: A Queer East Correspondence

by Jae Huang, Soumya Sharma

In col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Queer East Film Fes­ti­val, our final pair from this year’s Emerg­ing Crit­ics pro­gramme reflect on their experience.
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Festivals

Temporal Sensibilities: Queering timelines and nostalgia

by Yuki Yoshikawa, Pear Nual­lak

In col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Queer East Film Fes­ti­val, our sec­ond pair from the Emerg­ing Crit­ics cohort offer their thoughts on this year’s programme.
A collage of scenes from a film, including a man in traditional Japanese dress, a woman in a revealing dress, and various other characters in action.
Festivals

This Must Be the Place: A Queer East Correspondence

by Qinghan Chen, Lydia Leung

In col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Queer East Film Fes­ti­val, this year’s Emerg­ing Crit­ics cohort offer their respons­es to the film programme.
Young woman standing in front of a large painted portrait of a woman with long red hair against a dark, moody background.
Festivals

Building community through creativity, Queer East Film Festival comes of age

by Cici Peng

Guest cura­tor Cici Peng reflects on the remark­ably pro­gram­ming on offer at the fifth edi­tion, offer­ing a mix­ture of screen­ings and immer­sive events that shift ideas of what a fes­ti­val can be.
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Festivals

Quiet defiance in JE Tiglao’s Metamorphosis

by Jason Tan Liwag

This land­mark film receives its UK pre­mière at Queer East Film Fes­ti­val, but its jour­ney has been a tumul­tuous one.