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Queer East · 2025

Queer East 2025

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Edhi Alice (Edi Aelliseu)

Review preview for Edhi Alice

Despite its overtly artificial structure, the film captures something that feels very natural, spending time with its subjects until they’re completely at ease.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
A portrait of two South Korean women in transition: Edhi, a modest and cheerful woman who hopes to feel good in her own body after her surgery, and Alice, a quiet personality who is at a different stage in her life and her transition.

(Country: South Korea; Year: 2024; Director: Kim Il-rhan)

Kubi

A fictional interpretation of the Honnō-ji Incident, when the warlord Oda Nobunaga was assassinated in a Kyoto temple in 1582.

(Country: Japan; Year: 2022; Director: Takeshi Kitano; Writer: Takeshi Kitano; Stars: Ken Watanabe)