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Queer East Festival

9 November @ 6:00 pm - 21 November @ 11:59 pm

Free
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.
Queer East Festival, now in its fifth year, comes toSheffield from 9-21 Novemberas part of the festival’s ‘On the Road 2024’ tour.
The below film’s are screening as part of the festival:
Love Bound + Q&A (UK, 2024)
Shanshan Chen integrates animation and anecdotes in her documentary centering on the journey of Qiuyan Chen who became an unexpected celebrity after suing the Chinese Government over homophobic textbooks. After moving to the UK to escape her suffocating family and government pressure, her life takes an unexpected turn when she meets Bling who has to return to China. Determined to reunite and build a life together, Qiuyan embarks on a challenging journey to bring Bling back to the UK.
Asog (Philippines, 2023)
Incorporating documentary and fictional elements, this screwball tragicomedy stars a cast of real-life survivors of Super Typhoon Yolanda, focusing on Jaya, a non-binary schoolteacher and comedian who travels across the Philippines in the hopes of winning a beauty pageant, with Adam McKay (Succession, The Big Short) and Alan Cumming (The Good Wife, Goldeneye) serving as executive producers.
Bye Bye Love 50th anniversary screening (Japan, 1974)
Until the discovery of a film negative in a warehouse in 2018, Bye Bye Love was long considered lost, but this new print gives audiences a rare chance to revisit this radical work of 1970s Japanese cinema, which recalls the 1969 queer classic Funeral Parade of Roses. Following two young people, Utamaro and Giko, on a doomed summer road trip through Japan, this poetic, surreal work reflects on the dissipating promise of 1960s counterculture and free love, transcending gender, sexuality and the body. With a blend of stylistic influences from the French New Wave and American New Cinema along with a rethinking of Japanese artistic traditions, conventional understandings are challenged through a queer lens, adding to the political charge of this rediscovered classic.
The River(Taiwan, 1997)
Tsai Ming-liang is one of the most celebrated ‘Second New Wave’ film directors of Taiwanese cinema and his shockingly subversive family drama centres around the disintegration of a troubled family after a young man is suddenly struck by debilitating neck pain. Shot in Tsai’s signature minimalist style and starring his muse Lee Kang-Sheng, who has appeared in many of Tsai’s groundbreaking films including Rebels of the Neon God and Good Bye, Dragon Inn, this controversial work confirmed the director’s place as a uniquely rebellious voice in LGBTQ+ cinema, offering a sly, queer critique of the nuclear family and the values it represents.
Queer East Festival 2024 nationwide tourheads to Sheffield 9 November – 21 November 2024 at Showroom Cinema
 
With the support of the BFI, awarding funds from the National Lottery in order to bring this project to more audiences across the UK.
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Details

Start:
9 November @ 6:00 pm
End:
21 November @ 11:59 pm
Cost:
Free
Event Category:
Website:
https://www.showroomworkstation.org.uk/queereast2024

Venue

Showroom Workstation
Paternoster Row, Sheffield City Centre
Sheffield, S1 2BX Sheffield
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