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Scottish Queer International Film Festival 2023

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Beast (Country: Netherlands; Year: 2022; Director: Aileen Ye)
A martial arts inspired dance-fight between a lion dancer and queer performer reflects the tension between traditional and modern identities.
BXBY (Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Soojin Chang)
In this self-recorded performance blending documentary and ritual practice, a hybrid creature attempts reproduction.
Disease Of Manifestation (Country: Taiwan; Year: 2011; Director: Tzu-An Wu,)
The work builds itself towards the anarchistic conditions of the inner scenes, can also be seem as a wrong-manifesto.
Garden Amidst The Flame (Country: Indonesia; Year: 2022; Director: Natasha Tontey)
A playful and imaginative fantasy that challenges the hypermasculine presentation of Minahasan ritual culture and everyday life.
Longing For The Sun To Set Upwards (Country: Philippines; Year: 2022; Director: Jao San Pedro,)
An ode to the multiplicity, mutability, and expansion of what constitutes a body and a self, through imaging and technological mediations.
To Boyhood, I Never Knew Him (Country: Vietnam, Canada; Year: 2022; Director: Trâm Anh Nguyễn)
Words from a trans man float to the surface as fleeting memories go on.
Yummy Body Truck (Country: Netherlands; Year: 2021; Director: Noam Youngrak Son)
A fictional food truck selling human body parts mixed with other organisms in a biotechno-queer fantasy of interspecies mixing.
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