FULL PROGRAMME

To Boyhood, I Never Knew Him (2022)
Words from a transgender man float to the surface as fleeting memories go on.
Dir. Trâm Anh Nguyễn (Canada)

Longing for the Sun to Set Upwards (2022)
An ode to the multiplicity, mutability, and expansion of what constitutes a body and a self, through imaging and technological mediations.
Dir. Jao San Pedro (Philippines)

Beast (2022)
A martial arts inspired dance-fight between a lion dancer and queer performer reflects the tension between traditional and modern identities.
Dir. Aileen Ye (Netherlands)

Disease of Manifestation (2011)
The work builds itself towards the anarchistic conditions of the inner scenes, can also be seen as a wrong-manifesto.
Dir. Tzu An Wu (Taiwan)

Yummy Body Truck (2021)
A fictional food truck selling human body parts mixed with other organisms in a biotechno-queer fantasy of interspecies mixing.
Dir. Noam Youngrak Son (Netherlands)

BXBY (2022)
In this self-recorded performance blending documentary and ritual practice, a hybrid creature attempts reproduction.
Dir. Soojin Chang (UK)

*Please note BXBY contains scenes of a graphic nature which viewers may find distressing, including explicit nudity, and graphic scenes of the preparation of a dead animal.

Garden Amidst the Flame (2022)
A playful and imaginative fantasy that challenges the hypermasculine presentation of Minahasan ritual culture and everyday life.
Dir. Natasha Tontey (Indonesia)

About Homotopia

Founded in 2003, Homotopia is a Liverpool based arts & social justice organisation making a cultural impact through art and activism. Their aim is to support and platform local, national, and international LGBTQIA socially engaged artists and creatives. Every November, the organisation present Homotopia Festival, featuring a variety of LGBTQIA art across multiple venues and outdoor spaces in the city. In addition to the festival, Homotopia have a year-round programme of artist development, public artworks, and events. Homotopia Festival is the UK’s longest running LGBTQIA arts and culture festival.

About Queer East

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.

This event is part of FACT's Community Cinema. If you're an artist, independent filmmaker, charity, film club, or arts organisation, find out how FACT can support your film screening.

Community Cinema events do not include adverts before the screening. Doors open 30 minutes before the screening and the programme will start promptly at 18:30. Please arrive in plenty of time to help our team ensure everyone has a great experience.