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Extremely Unique Dynamic and 1 Girl Infinite
1 Girl Infinite
(Country: US, Latvia, Singapore; Year: 2025; Director: Hu Lilly; Writer: Chen Xuanyu; Stars: Chen Xuanyu, Hu Lilly)
In Changsha, Yin Jia and Tong Tong have carved out a life together, but when Tong Tong begins a relationship with a drug dealer, the devoted Yin Jia is prepared to sacrifice all that she has.
Batch '81
(Country: Philippines; Year: 1982; Director: Mike de Leon; Writer: Clodualdo Del Mundo Jr., Raquel Villavicencio, Mike De Leon; Stars: Mark Gil, Sandy Andolong, Ward Luarca, Noel Trinidad, Ricky Sandico)
The story of seven neophytes striving to enter a Greek letter fraternity through a difficult hazing process. The entire experience is seen through the eyes of Sid Lucero, one of the neophytes.
Bel Ami
(Piao Liang Peng You)
(Country: France; Year: 2024; Director: Jun Geng; Writer: Jun Geng; Stars: Chen Xuanyu, Wang Qing, Wang Zixing, Xu Gang, Xue Baohe)
In a sleepy town in China, a middle-aged man is unwilling to endure a stagnant existence, and experiencing true love, decides to come out of the closet.
Come Dance With Me
(Country: China; Year: 2022; Director: Yunyi Liu, Bozhi Wei)
Before it closed in 2018, Lai Lai Ballroom became famous amongst Shanghai’s gay community, and was popular with middle-aged and elderly gay men. This documentary examines this space of sanctuary, and the sense of community it created.
Crazy Love
(Kureijî Ravu)
(Country: Japan; Year: 1968; Director: Michio Okabe; Writer: Michio Okabe; Stars: Mami Aoyama, Gulliver, Mitsutaka Ishii, Kenji Kanosaka, Tetsuo Koyama)
A film documenting the radical spirit of Japan’s creative and artistic scene, especially around Shinjuku, in the late Sixties.
A Journey in Spring and My Sunshine
Extremely Unique Dynamic
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Katherine Dudas, Ivan Leung, Harrison Xu; Writer: Harrison Xu, Ivan Leung, Katherine Dudas; Stars: Ivan Leung, Harrison Xu, Hudson Yang, Nathan Doan, Lucan Liu, Kelly Lynch, Jason Sun, Valerie Yu)
During their final weekend together, two best friends test the limits of their friendship while making a double-meta film.
Incidental Journey
(Country: Taiwan; Year: 2000; Director: Chen Jo-fei)
After breaking up with her girlfriend, student Ching goes on a road trip around Taiwan, encountering Hsiang, a solitary artist. Travelling to a peaceful farm in the mountains, the women contemplate their pasts.
A Journey in Spring
(Country: Taiwan; Year: 2023; Director: Peng Tzu-Hui, Ping-Wen Wang; Stars: Kuei-Mei Yang, Jieh-Wen King)
An old man has depended on his wife over the years, when she suddenly passes away, he puts her into an old freezer and goes on living a seemingly peaceful life. But the arrival of his son and daughter-in-law brings change.
Looking For An Angel
(Tenshi No Rakuen)
(Country: Japan; Year: 1999; Director: Akihiro Suzuki; Writer: Jun Kurosawa, Akihiro Suzuki, Toshiko Takashi; Stars: Kôichi Imaizumi, Akira Suehiro, Hotaru Hazuki, Akira Kuroiwa)
Takachi, a young porn star from a small town in Japan is found dead. His death provides the opportunity to show us his true emotions, and how his two best friends in Tokyo remember him.
Love And Videotapes
(Country: Philippines; Year: 2023; Director: Ryan Machado; Writer: Ryan Machado)
In the summer of 2001, in a small town in the Philippines, 16-year-old Andoy fanatically watches VHS tapes, which fuel his sexual awakening and emerging queer desire.
Murmur Of Youth
(Country: Taiwan; Year: 1997; Director: Lin Cheng-sheng; Writer: Ko So-ching, Lin Cheng-sheng; Stars: Liu Rene, Tseng Jing, Tsai Chin-Hsin)
Two adolescent girls in Taiwan meet when they get a job in a cinema box office. The pair begin to bond as they chat about family, work and school; but gradually, their conversations become more intimate.
My Sunshine
(Boku No Ohisama)
(Year: 2024; Director: Hiroshi Okuyama)
Drama centring on two kids with opposing personalities who become a figure-skating pair.
Pierce
(Cì Xīn Qiè Gŭ)
(Country: Singapore, Taiwan, Poland; Year: 2024; Director: Nelicia Low; Writer: Nelicia Low; Stars: Liu Hsiu-Fu, Tsao Yu-Ning, Ding Ning, Lin Tsu-Heng, Rosen)
After being released from juvenile detention, where he served seven years for killing an opponent in a fencing match, a young man begins to train his brother for a national competition.
Rookie
(Country: Philippines; Year: 2023; Director: Samantha Lee; Writer: Natts Jadaone, Samantha Lee; Stars: Pat Tingjuy, Aya Fernandez, Agot Isidro, Mikoy Morales, Alyssa Valdez)
Everything changes when an awkward teenager joins the volleyball team and falls for the volleyball team captain.
Silent Sparks
(Country: Taiwan; Year: 2024; Director: Ping Chu; Writer: Ping Chu; Stars: Huang Guan-Zhi, Shih Ming-Shuai , Cheng Chih-Wei, Ray Fan, Hu Wei-Jie)
A man and his former cellmate face difficult choices after leaving jail.
Some Nights I Feel Like Walking
(Country: Philippines, Italy, Singapore; Year: 2024; Director: Petersen Vargas; Writer: Petersen Vargas; Stars: Jomari Angeles, Argel Saycon, Tommy Alejandrino, Gold Aceron, Miguel Odron)
When an old man dies the sex worker he was with decides to fulfil his last wish.
Under The Moonlight
(Country: Indonesia; Year: 2023; Director: Tonny Trimarsanto)
At an Islamic boarding school in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, all the adult students are transgender women. Here, they can live the way they choose to, in stark contrast with the hostile world outside.
Unmarried Mothers
(Country: Taiwan; Year: 1980; Director: Lee Mi-mi; Writer: Chiu Kang-Chien; Stars: Gua Ah-Lei, Lung Chun-Erh)
Hsiao-Peng is sent to a maternity home for single pregnant women, where she slowly overcomes her depressive thoughts.
We Are Here
(Country: China; Year: 2015; Director: Zhao Jing, Shi Tou)
A documentary about the 1995 United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, which was hosted in Beijing and attended by 300 lesbian women from around the world; the gathering helped spearhead the birth of the queer lala movement in China.
Where Is My Love?
(Country: Taiwan; Year: 1996; Director: Chen Jo-fei; Writer: Chen Jo-fei; Stars: Chiu An-Chen, Wen Chih-xing)
Taipei in the 1990s: Ko is a young gay writer who must decide whether or not to remain in the closet.
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