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Queer East · 2024

Queer East 2024

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Bye Bye Love (Baibai Rabu)

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Alternating between road movie formula and surrealist exploration of interior landscapes, Bye Bye Love is full of striking imagery, and it resolutely avoids playing by the rules.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
Two young people undertake a doomed summer road trip through Japan, which in turn reflects on the dissipating promise of 1960s counterculture and free love.

(Country: Japan; Year: 1974; Director: Isao Fujisawa; Writer: Isao Fujisawa; Stars: Atsuko Ami, Miyabi Ichijô, Yûzô Morita, Satomi Oki, Ren Tamura, Enver Tenpai)

A Song Sung Blue

Liu Xian will always remember the summer when she was 15. When her mother went to Africa to provide medical aid as a doctor, she was thrown into the care of her father who had been divorced from her mother for many years.

(Country: China; Year: 2023; Director: Zihan Geng)