Love as Existence: Affective Atlas of Asian Queers

Curated by Beijing Queer Film Festival 

A Catholic School Girl 
Myra Angeline SORIASO, Philippines 2023, 18min. Hiligaynon, Filipino, German Premiere

IF 
Tathagata GHOSH, India 2024, 26 min. Bengali, Berlin Premiere

Love is a Book（爱是一本书） 
LAI Yu-Qing, US, Cambodia, China 2024, 10min. English, Mandarin, Khmer, Europe Premiere

Son 
Saman HOSSEINPUOR, Kurdistan 2024, 17 min. Kurdish

Wouldn’t Make It Any Other Way (别无它法 )
ZHOU Hao, US 2024, 21 min. English

When the system denies our existence, love becomes the tenderest resistance. From the Kurdish highlands to Philippine, from Indian villages to diasporic homelands, contemporary Asian queers carve their presence into the silenced pages of history through their affective experiences unfolding in the tensions between tradition, faith, and family structures. This is their testimony: we are always here. (BJQFF)