This programme of shorts follow the relationships which punctuate our queer lives. Flitting between familial tensions, one-night stands, online friendships, and unexpected allyships, these stories explore the potential for generating bonds of familiarity across spaces of hostile exclusion towards queer individuals and communities. What does it look like to co-create solidarity, belonging, and resistance in an increasingly individualized world?

The screening will be followed by a facilitated discussion around kinship and the processes of kin-making.

In collaboration with SOAS, University of London, ‘Queer’ Asia is renewing its film screening series for 2024, building upon the intellectual, emotional, and political energy of the 2022 ‘Queer’ Asia Film Festival: Survival.

REVIVAL 2024 asks us to imagine the possibilities of queer liberation, kinship, acts of resistance, solidarity, and desire. How do queer individuals and communities negotiate and contest the nexus of oppressive structures, Eurocentric notions of queer freedom, and discourses of exclusion? What are the queer stories and futures that can be articulated through subversive and embodied practices across the normative borders of space and time? These stories invite us to think beyond the limits of our own social and political conditioning and engage in a shared space that will proffer transgressive potential and reflexive discussion.

The screenings shall be followed by a series of discussions which aim to generate collaborative conversation and a space for expanding upon the liberatory potential brought forth by the films.

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