desiring a queer utopia (Uni. of Warwick) - 'Queer' Asia Film Festival 2022

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**We kindly remind all viewers to attend the whole screening programme and not simply watch individual films**

Many understand 'queer' as a synonym for LGBT+ identity. But, it is a notoriously slippery and stubbornly unfixed term. What does it mean to desire 'queerly' or otherwise? We invite you to explore this question through the films in this selection. All of these imagine new ways to realise love, from the utopic to queerly strange or, even, eerie.

Programme

From the fabulous water (Japan) - Dir. Caori Murata

Love X Bites (Myanmar) - Dir. M. Noe, Yupar Momo

NERVE - Identity and pride (Brazil) - Dir. Jefherson Luiz Maiczak

now i close my eyes the world i see is so beautiful (United Kingdom) - Dir. April Lin 林森

Programming H (Colombia) - Dir. Jose Nando Roa, Michell Cardenas

Unbecoming Boy: After Taylor Swift (United Kingdom) - Dir. JJ Chan

I Am (Spain) - Dir. Jaime Fidalgo

She Takes Me Over (China) - Dir. Matthew Baren

Soy Sauce (Germany) - Dir. Sarnt Utamachote

Relationships (Taiwan) - Dir. CHING-YU YANG

Nights of Passion (Turkey) - Dir. Ufuk Kadız

Loverless Bed Decides (Indonesia) - Dir. Andrew Bachtiar

**Please note – one of the films in this selection features full nudity**

Our fifth annual “Queer” Asia Film Festival (QAFF) of 2022 invites you to reflexively, critically, and creatively engage with us in the conversation on the theme of “survival” in our uncertain times.

How do LGBTQI+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex) individuals and communities navigate their everyday living conditions at the intersections of the pandemic, queerness, and different forms of hierarchies, crises, controls, and discriminations, including heterosexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, etc.? How do we transgress global normativities, including the hegemonic discourse of temporality and space, challenge national and colonial ideologies, and manifest the impossibility of queer hopes, desires, and dreams? How do we revisit our past, create our present, and imagine the possibility and potentiality of queer futurity?

This year, the “Queer” Asia Film Festival is collaborating with Xintong Zhang, a Chinese queer feminist artist who investigates the value of weeds in urban landscapes as a metaphor for resistance to the hierarchical value system in human society. Xintong's original art forms the basis of our communications material this year.