QUEER×APAC ~APQFFA Selection 2018~

Asia Pacific Queer Film Festival Alliance (APQFFA) is a collective of film festivals with an aim to support and promote queer films and filmmakers from accross the region. In this program, we introduce 3 shorts and 1 documentary recommended by the member festivals, each directed by a fresh new talent!


※All non-English films have English subtitles.

Schedule

7/8 12:25~ @Tokyo Women’s Plaza Hall
7/15 11:30~ @Spiral Hall

First Day

[Drama][T]
※All non-English films have English subtitles.

Dir:Julie Kalceff
2018|Australia|18 min|English
Official Site
Japan Premiere
Recommended by Mardi Gras Film Festival
Official Support: Australian Embassy Tokyo

It’s Hannah’s first day of high school. It’s also the first day she’ll wear a girl’s school uniform
and go by her chosen name instead of the boy’s name she was given at birth.

Sisak

[Romance][Drama][G]
※All non-English films have English subtitles.

Dir:Faraz Arif Ansari
2017|India|15 min|No dialogue
Trailer
Official Site
Japan Premiere
Recommended by KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival

Set in the fast-paced environs of the bustling Mumbai local trains, Sisak details a wordless romance that develops slowly and intoxicatingly, nestled in the silences and quiet comforts of the end-of-day train journeys between two men.

Cocoon

[Drama][Youth][L]
※All non-English films have English subtitles.


Dir:Mei Li-Ying
2017|China|26 min|Mandarin
Trailer
Official Site
Japan Premiere
Recommended by ShanghaiPRIDE Film Festival

Set in 1997 China, a little girl discovers her mom’s affair with another woman, and she has to make a decision of whether keeping this secret or not.

Looking For?

[Documentary][G]
※All non-English films have English subtitles.

你找什麼
Dir:Chou Tung-Yen
2017|Taiwan|61 min|Mandarin, English
Trailer
Official Site
Japan Premiere
Recommended by Taiwan International Queer Film Festival

“Looking for?” – one of the most commonly asked questions on all gay dating apps – is not easy to answer, at least for Yen, the director, when he saw it for the first time four years ago.