Queer East Festival has announced its 2026 line-up, featuring a diverse array of films that explore the vibrant and often overlooked queer culture of East and Southeast Asia.
It was the first time I felt genuinely unsafe here, she says. Alongside a growing fear, childhood memories resurfaced—the internal and external racism and the exhaustion of never quite fitting in. I moved to Australia when I was seven and didn't speak English—it was a tough time for me, she admits. And then there was one particular recurring thought. There were many times when I'd wake up as a teenager and think to myself: Wouldn't life be easier if I were white?
Wang was on the edge of 17 when she arrived at Nashville International Airport with her entire life packed into three suitcases and a carry-on. She had traveled all the way from Zhejiang, China, chasing a dream that would ultimately shape her future: studying music business at Belmont University. Now 26, Wang is an Artist Development Manager at Sony Music Entertainment.
Now McIntosh, who told him she loved him before she saw him, is telling the cameras she's not attracted to the guy while bungling a face-to-face breakup with her fiancé. Instead of telling Suzuki she doesn't want to be with him, she implies that she doesn't want to be on camera anymore, leaving a confused Patrick unclear about the status of their relationship.
Paris is home to one of the oldest and largest Vietnamese diasporas in the world not that you could tell from mainstream French cinema. In this heartwarming feature debut, Stephane Ly-Cuong turns to the magic of the musical comedy to portray not only the dreams and the struggles of Vietnamese-French artists, but also a side of Paris seldom seen on screen.