Elegy for the Lost
Duration: 29 min
Director: William Hong-xiao
Language:Chinese, English
Subtitles: English
Country: UK
Year: 2025
Through a kaleidoscopic collection of archives, found footage, and even AI-generated images, a young woman who has left China recalls her memories and the connections she had in her native country. Her intimate and nostalgic voice-over becomes the backdrop for queer struggles, where an underground theatre troupe, the excitement of clandestine festivals, repression, and social pressure to live in silence intersect. Between personal memory and collective history, the film juxtaposes love, resistance, and exile.
Wild Mei 野红梅
Duration: 14 min
Director: Ye Fang
Language: Mandarin Chinese
Subtitles: English
Country: China
Year: 2025
Synopsis:
Mei is a post-00s transgender woman who loves revolutionary songs and whip dancing. She sees herself as an ancient witch, who because of her “identity” has to give up her mainstream life to work on the streets as a fortune-teller. But at the same time, because of her “identity”, she has gained something different, something more important.
Asian Bitches Speak 亚裔婊贝正发声
Duration: 16 min
Director: Janet Che Ma
Language: English, Mandarin Chinese
Subtitles: English
Country: USA
Year: 2024
Synopsis:
After generations of cultural silence, years of pandemic anxiety, and one anti-Asian hate crime, queer filmmaker Janet takes her retired single mom Diana on a mental health discovery road trip. Along the way, they lay bare their long-buried family history, and together start the journey of healing.
Wouldn’t Make It Any Other Way 别无它法
Duration: 21 min
Director: Hao Zhou
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Country: USA
Year: 2024
Synopsis:
Having built a colorful queer life in an American prairie town, an aspiring costume designer visits their island homeland of Guam to make costumes for a children’s theatre and reconnect with distanced parents.
Two Travelling Aunties
Duration: 22 min
Director: Christine Seow
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Country: Singapore and UK
Year: 2025
Synopsis:
Two spirited Singaporean seniors in their late fifties trade years of conventional living for a lifetime of adventure as they hit the open road in a van, discovering newfound freedom, unexpected romance, and the joy of living life on their own terms.