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