CURATED BY HANNAH BAEK - Free meetup before at POCO (1408 E Pine St, Seattle, WA 98122) from 5:30-7:30 PM).

Crushes on classmates, earthquakes and COVID-interrupting hookups, and trying to love while straining against the expectations of parents and the state, oh my! Get messy with these eight queer, Asian stories.

SCREENING:
THU OCT 19| 8:00 PM | NORTHWEST FILM FORUM

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Check out International Examiner’s write-up on this shorts block

CONFUSION OF THE AFTERNOON [午後的迷茫]
Yung-Chieh Lee; 2023; Taiwan; 3 min.
A boy’s imagination transforms the innocent touches and gazes of an afternoon playing poker into a sublime fantasy.

LUCKY FISH
Emily May Jampel; 2022; USA; 9 min.
Two Asian-American teens serendipitously connect in the bathroom of a Chinese restaurant while having dinner with their families.

SOLID [犬漏]
Hiroki Iwasa; 2021; Japan; 14 min.; Japanese, with English subtitles
A hookup becomes anything but ordinary when an earthquake hits.
CONTENT WARNINGS: NUDITY, EXPLICIT SEXUAL SITUATIONS

APARTMENT 605
Bianca Catbagan; 2023; Philippines; 7 min.; English, French, and Tagalog, with English subtitles
Speaking through a building intercom, Miké unexpectedly connects with a stranger.

WILL YOU LOOK AT ME [当我望向你的时候]
Shuli Huang; 2022; China; 20 min.; Mandarin, with English subtitles
A long-overdue conversation with the filmmaker’s mother plunges the pair into a quest for acceptance and love.
CONTENT WARNINGS: CONVERSATION BETWEEN MOTHER AND SON REGARDING HIS SEXUALITY MAY BE UPSETTING TO SOME VIEWERS

MOONCAKE
Rraine Hanson; 2022; USA; 12 min.; Mandarin and English, with English subtitles
A childhood memory unleashes an experimental meditation on gender queerness and the blurred lines between influence, desire, and obsession.

FUTURE FLOWERS [未来的花朵]
Hao Zhou; 2022; China; 10 min.; Mandarin, with English subtitles
A queer woman and queer man in a sham marriage ambivalently follow a propagandistic program that nudges them toward a single goal.

WEGEN HEGEL
Popo Fan; 2023; Germany; 14 min.; German, Mandarin, and English, with English subtitles
Philosophy student Ping’s plan to have a socially distanced hookup mid-pandemic is derailed by a particular book.
CONTENT WARNINGS: DRUGS/DRUG USE, NONEXPLICIT SEXUAL SITUATIONS, DEPICTION OF RACIAL VIOLENCE, NUDITY