CINEMQ will be traveling to Glasgow in Scotland on December 6th for Scottish Queer International Film Festival, one of the UK's leading LGBTQ film events. SQIFF this year has a special focus on East Asia, and will be screening such recent releases as transgender triptych Alifu, The Prince/ss and steamy gay drama The Story Of The Stone. As part of the festival, we will be presenting a series of gender-queer short films by filmmakers from Greater China to accompany the festival

CINEMQ reviews three new Asian short films at Shanghai Queer Film Festival that renegotiate filial relationships, and ask, 'What do pare

Homophobic bullying turns into sexual violence in Pink Pill, a rare and authentic tale of teen angst in small-town Sichuan. Based on a true

Thanks to everyone who came to CINEMQ: CYBER at ELEVATOR last week. It was a fabulous and emotional night of cyborg sexualities and digital pleasure to wrap up our current season of queer short film screenings. It was also our farewell to two of CINEMQ's core team - Matthew and Will - who are leaving Shanghai after 4 years of helping to grow the city's queer film scene. CINEMQ is an unrefined queer collective that has been hosting film screenings and publishing articles on As

Ode To Joy's creators missed the mark on portraying real Shanghai women; women who do not depend on a man’s support, who work hard, have

When videos with homosexual content were banned from Chinese internet last June, one civic minded gay man from Shanghai decided to sue the censors. On Friday this week, he finally got his day in court. CINEMQ speaks to Fan Chunlin about what his case means for the queer community. Fan Chunlin takes a stand against Chinese state-censor SAPPRFT. Photo: LGBT Rights Advocacy China Thirty year old Fan Chunlin leads a pretty average life. The Shanghai native works for an internet c