PRIDE WITH GLOBALQUEERCINEMA

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PRIDE with @GlobalQueerCinema was a FREE curated virtual film fest amplifying the visibility of genre- and geography-diverse queer cinema. 

We  spotlighted a queer cinema gem EVERY SUNDAY during Pride Month (June, 2025).

@GlobalQueerCinema would like to THANK all the filmmakers and collaborating partners who participated in PRIDE with @GlobalQueerCinema.

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FEATURED FILM: 

TRANS KASHMIR (2022) 

India, dir. S.A. HANAN & SURBHI DEWAN

A candid documentary about the transgender community of Kashmir who wear men’s clothes and have worked as matchmakers and performers for generations. Once entertainers of the royal court, today they fight for their basic human rights. Iconic figures of the community share stories about their life, struggles, beauty and resilience. A rare glimpse into the daily life of a trans community from an underexplored region.

This film was available to watch for FREE for 48 hours on June 29-30, 2025  by courtesy of the filmmakers and Cinelogue. 

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CINELOGUE is a curated streaming platform for critical independent cinema from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Oceania. 

Image © @transkashmir 

FEATURED FILMMAKERS: 

S.A. HANAN & SURBHI DEWAN

S.A. HANAN is a television producer, director and educator. He has produced and directed documentaries, shorts, public service announcements, and talk shows for various television channels. He has also taught film production at universities across India and has written extensively on sustainable development, minority and gender rights for various publications in Kashmir. 

SURBHI DEWAN is an independent writer, director & producer. Her films connect personal portraits to larger socio-political landscapes. Her films include The Night That Forgot To End (2025), An Open Sky (2020) and Daughter of Nepal (2018). She has also co-produced A Thin Wall (2015) a feature length documentary film about the Partition of India. Surbhi produces social and commercial content with her New Delhi-based production company, Painted Tree Pictures.

Image © S.A. Hanan & Surbhi Dewan

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FEATURED FILMMAKER: 

JORGE CADENA

Jorge Cadena is an artist and filmmaker from Barranquilla, Colombia, based in Switzerland. His work is formally experimental, employs elements of documentary and fiction and focuses on subversive spaces and narratives of marginalized communities. His films include Mapalé (2014), The Jarariju Sisters (2019). He is currently working on his first feature film. Jorge Cadena’s films have been featured and awarded at numerous international film festivals, including Berlinale, Rotterdam, Edinburgh, Kiev Molodist, FICCI Cartagena and Visions du Réel. (source)

Image © Jorge Cadena

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FEATURED FILM: 

FLOWERS FROM ANOTHER GARDEN (2022) Switzerland, Colombia DIR. JORGE CADENA

A docufiction blending queer desire and activism with an environmental conscience, Flores del otro Patio (Flowers From Another Garden) follows a group of queer activists in northern Colombia who use performance art to resist local coal mine exploitation and raise awareness about water pollution and corporate exploitation. 

@europeanfilmacademy European Short Film - Prix Vimeo 2024 nominee 

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Image © Jorge Cadena

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FEATURED FILMMAKER: 

HUI-CHEN HUANG

Hui-Chen Huang is an independent filmmaker from Taiwan. Born into a working-class family, she found her passion for film and social movements as a way to understand and engage with the world. She has served as a board member of the Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute and as Secretary General of the Taiwan Documentary Filmmakers’ Union. Currently, she runs Your Sister Films Ltd. Her debut feature-length documentary, Small Talk, won the Teddy Award at the Berlinale. In addition to working on her second feature-length documentary, Hui-Chen also produces and executive produces other projects, including The Fishbowl Girl, which was recently selected for the 2025 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Competition.

MORE HERE

Image © Hui-Chen Huang

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FEATURED FILM: 

SMALL TALK (2016) 

Taiwan DIR. HUI-CHEN HUANG

This 2017 Berlinale Teddy Award winning documenatry is an intimate look at a mother-daughter relationship which unfolds through a series of difficult yet compassionate conversations between the director and her mother - a butch lesbian, a Taoist priestess, and an absent mother. The filmmaker, now a mother herself, decides to use her camera as a gateway to finally have an honest conversation with her mother and to know her for who she really is. A candid story of family, love, and inconvenient truths. 

This film was available to watch for FREE for 48 hours on June 15 & 16, 2025  by courtesy of the filmmaker. 

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Image © Hui-Chen Huang

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FEATURED FILMMAKER: 

WEIFAN WANG

WeiFan Wang is an animation director based in Taipei and London. After graduating from Taipei National University of the Arts, he pursued further studies at the Royal College of Art where he started  experimenting with expanded animation. 

His films were screened and awared at

Animafest Zagreb, Annecy International Animation Film Festival and ASIFA International Animation Day. "I hoped to create  a queer animation with no love story, no quarrels, but purely private

and introverted, bringing a gentler perspective to our society and allowing people to better understand the queer community."

MORE HERE

Image © @roywang_illustration

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FEATURED FILM: 

HEY DAD 

2024, Taiwan / DIR. WEIFAN WANG

This visually exquisite animation is a poetic exploration of the what-ifs of coming out and sharing who you are - pondering whether those on the receiving end (fathers, mothers, family) can understand the journeys you are on and whether there is a common language to frame it. “I’ve practiced these words for 20 years now, but maybe being candid isn’t the best idea. At this moment, I decide to stop, starting the countdown again, another cycle of 20 years. Maybe it might be the right time by then.” 

This film was available to watch for 48 hours on June 8 & 9 - by courtesy of the filmmaker. 

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Image © @roywang_illustration

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FEATURED FILMMAKER: 

CLISTER SANTOS

Clister Santos is a Filipino animator, filmmaker, and visual artist based in Manila whose work explores queer and Filipino stories. His debut animated short ILI-ILI (Little One), which he wrote, directed, and animated, centers on Filipino same-sex parents, a narrative rarely portrayed in the country’s film landscape. The film premiered at BFI Flare 2024 and was selected as one of the British Council’s Five Films for Freedom campaign, screening in over 20 countries. 

MORE HERE

Image © @clister.art

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FEATURED FILM: 

ILI-ILI /LITTLE ONE 

2023, Philippines / DIR. CLISTER SANTOS

A heartfelt animation about a Filipino same-sex couple whose pregnant daughter wants to learn more about her dads’ journey becoming her parents. The interview takes a fateful turn, but it also becomes the catalyst of memories of a childhood full of precious memories and loving care. Evocative of home movies, the visuals were inspired by Filipino painter Fernando Amorsolo and  Ili-Ili from the title comes from a Filipino-Ilongo language lullaby called "Ili ili tulog anay" - go to sleep little one. 

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Image © @clister.art