Rebecca Davis editorLondon’s Queer East Film Festival will run a virtual program of four free-to-stream Asian documentaries from July 3-31, as cinema closures due to coronavirus force its regular programming online.The festival typically seeks to bring rarely seen LGBTQ+ films from East and Southeast Asia to the U.K., but this year’s online iteration will be mostly available to viewers worldwide.Its “QE: Docs4Pride” virtual program features selections from the Philippines, China, Taiwan and Japan.
They are: “Out Run,” which chronicles the campaign efforts of Ladlad, one of the world’s only LGBTQ+ political parties, in its attempt to get the Philippines’ first transgender woman elected to congress; “Shanghai Queer,” which documents LGBTQ+.
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