What stories come from the intersection of Asian and LGBTQ+ identities? This Pride Month, join us for a series that celebrates films centering on such individuals as they dance, deceive, and defy for the sake of desire.
Park Chan-wook transposes Sarah Waters’ Victorian thriller, Fingersmith. It’s his most intricate narrative puzzle—a three-part sumptuous drama—that transforms a simple story trope: A handmaid dupes her employer. Historians would call them roommates.
Learn MoreA groundbreaking film — the first Pakistani film to play at the Cannes Film Festival and to be shortlisted for the Best International Feature Oscar. Saim Sadiq’s debut feature, is a bittersweet tale of repressed desire and the quest for individual freedom.
Learn MoreShot in a hypnotic style on 16mm film—and banned in Vietnam for its “gloomy, deadlocked, and negative view” of the country—Việt and Nam tells a story specific to history but universal in artfulness.
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