Event
Queer East Film Festival
22 Oct 2020 – 1 Jan 2021
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Address
- The Lexi Cinema
- 194b Chamberlayne Road
- London
England - NW10 3JU
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 6; 52; 452; 28
- Kensal Rise overground
QUEER EAST FILM FESTIVAL BRINGS EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASIAN LGBTQ+ CINEMA TO LONDON AND ONLINE.
About
Discover 36 films (16 features, 4 documentaries and 16 shorts), including 7 UK Premieres from 13 countries brought to you by Queer East – the festival fostering and promoting a cultural understanding about the queer Asian community.
The previously postponed Queer East Film Festival returns to cinemas across the UK with an additional seven films added to the original programme this October. Reimagined as a season-long showcase, the festival’s in-person cinema screenings will now go beyond London to include Manchester, Nottingham and Bristol, as well as offer UK-wide virtual screenings for audiences to enjoy at home.
Queer East is a celebration of queer storytelling and activism in East and Southeast Asia and aims to uplift and amplify the voices of those marginalised in the LGBTQ+ community. To reflect on the significant progress that has been made, as well as the obstacles that millions still face in Asia. The festival welcomes everyone to be part of the discussion and celebrate diverse identities, cultures, and heritages of Asian and diasporic communities who have often been excluded from mainstream discourse in the UK.
Spanning over 50 years of filmmaking, the first edition of Queer East is a mix of classic retrospectives and new releases, to explore how culture, law, history, and social norms have affected and built the current queer Asian landscape.
As part of the Brent 2020, London Borough of Culture, Queer East bring a series of five curated screenings echoing Brent’s strong Asian affiliations, in partnership with Lexi Cinema will now be expected to take place in early 2021.
