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The 2024 edition of London's annual celebration of LGBTQ+ films from the East opens with China's A Song Sung Blue and includes stories spanning 57 years of cinema and 10 countries. It also incorporates an exhibition, poetry and dance.
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The festival runs from 17 to 28 April,
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Summer vacation has emptied a Japanese boys' school of all but three boys. They have no families to return to for the summer, so they spend their days in the empty school. A darkness hangs over the three however: the suicide, three months earlier, of a classmate.
Kasumi doesn't know what love is and she doesn't have any feeling of romance. Due to her sister's marriage, her mother arranged a formal marriage arrangement without her permission. At the meeting, she finds a man who is just seeking a friend.
A trans woman returns to her remote village upon her father's death to find her traumatised mother in desperate need of her help.
When an alien comes back to take him, a mouthless young man's life twists and turns as his memories untangle.
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