A screening of three short films exploring trans identities across Indonesia, China, and the Philippines as part of Queer East Film Festival 2022
[ID: film still from ‘Baby Girl’. A trans woman wearing a gold sequinned dress sings with another woman and two children wearing white t-shirts that have ‘happy birthday’ printed across the chest]
Doors: 12.45pm
Tickets available on a ‘pay what you can’ basis via the link below
Join us for the screening of three short films exploring contemporary trans identities: Norvin de los Santos’s 101 Butterflies, Rofie Nur Fazie and Mohamad Sulaeman’s Baby Girl, and Junmi Chen and Guo Gao’s Xiaodi.
Produced in three different countries, these works are stylistically diverse, spanning documentary and fiction, and focusing on vastly different subject matter. But at the heart of each film lies a preoccupation with agency – an impulse to depict people who refuse to settle for the status quo, and resolve to shape their own futures. Each film selected here focuses on a trans person of a different age, and investigates themes of conflict and allyship between different generations.
The programme is followed by an online Q&A with Junmi Chen and Guo Gao, the directors of Xiaodi.
Queer East is an LGBTQ+ film festival showcasing East and Southeast Asian queer cinema. This year it is taking place across various locations in London from 18 to 29 May.
101 Butterflies: trailer
101 Butterflies
Dir. Norvin de los Santos | Philippines | 2020 | 18 min
A 100-year-old transgender woman decides to use her money to bail an ex-lover's son out of jail.
Baby Girl: trailer
Baby Girl
Dir. Rofie Nur Fauzie, Mohamad Sulaeman | Indonesia | 2020 | 14 min
A transgender woman steps back into male clothes in order to fundraise for a local hospital.
Xiaodi: trailer
Xiaodi
Dir. Junmi Chen, Guo Gao | China | 2021 | 45 min
Documentary about a transgender girl whose family go to extreme lengths to ensure she becomes a ‘normal’ boy.