Tokyo Cream Puffs 15[2017]

Thunderstruck(en)

Flashing lights explode across an apartment as images of a naked woman in bed flicker in and out. Light paintings and projections illuminate a space of confrontation and an assault on the senses.

Crocodile Dreaming(en)

Crocodile Dreaming is a modern day supernatural myth about two estranged brothers, played by iconic Indigenous actors David Gulpill and Tom E. Lewis. Separated at birth, they have different fathers. One is readily accepted as a full-fledged member of the tribe and is looked on to fulfill the duties of jungaiy, an important ceremonial role which obliges him to be caretaker for his mother's dreaming, the crocodile totem. The other, whose father was white, is younger and has had to struggle to fit into the tribe who see him only as a yella fella.

The Third Solar Term(zh)

Shortly after The Third Solar Term of the Chinese Calendar (the Awakening of Insects), Qizhe returns home to spend his spring break with his mother. After meeting a man who he originally met online, he begins to lose control of his double life- one which is living true to himself, and the other, which is pretending to be the perfect son.

Queer Parivaar(en)

When a mysterious person gatecrashes Madhav and Sufi's wedding, the couple are forced to face past secrets and reevaluate their definitions of what makes a family.

Iraq International Awards(ar)

A Wrinkle in Time(en)

After the disappearance of her scientist father, three peculiar beings send Meg, her brother, and her friend to space in order to find him.

Dear Bangladesh(bn)

An Uber driver gets a ride from a Japanese-Bangladeshi woman named Yuki. There are goons following her all the time, so she lives with the driver till she can leave for Japan.

Asian Queer Shorts(en)

A sexy compilation of the best gay cinema from Asia.

A Touch of the Tar Brush(en)

Black filmmaker John Akomfrah believes that, for too long, being English has meant being white. In an attempt to show Englishness from the point of view of mixed-race English people, he visits Liverpool, one of England's oldest multicultural communities.

Hard Feelings(en)

After basketball practice, a group of high school girls get ready to go home. Between conversations about next week's match and boys, June must navigate her budding attraction towards one of her teammates, Clementine.

One Night Only(zh)

A gambler, fresh out of prison, and a beautiful hooker find themselves caught in an underground scheme that's spinning wildly out of control.

Dear Thirteen(en)

A nuanced portrait of a new generation, Dear Thirteen is a cinematic time capsule of coming of age in today’s world. Through the eyes of nine thirteen-year-olds, we see how pressing social, geographical and political challenges are shaping, and being shaped by, young people: rising anti-Semitism in Europe, guns in America, gender identity and racial divisions across Australia and Asia. With no adult commentary outside the filmmaker, Dear Thirteen offers an intimate view into the universal uncertainty inherent in growing up.

Kamasutra for Gay Men(en)

Learn all the positions.

Bahala Na(en)

After learning to 'write what you know,' in film school, Half-Filipino and Half-White aspiring filmmaker Andrew Orticio travels back to his father's village in the Philippines to understand his mixed identity.

Thirstygirl(en)

On a road trip with her younger sister, Charlie struggles to hide a secret addiction.

Good Morning, Luang Prabang(th)

Sorn, a multiracial photographer, is assigned by his editor to take pictures of Laos, where he's reluctant to go. Even though, Sorn is half-Laotian, going back to his homeland is never on his mind. Sorn arrives at Pak-Cher town where he hires a guide, Noi to take him out to the best picture spots in Laos.

Morthered(en)

A tribute to our favorite mothers in horror reimagined in the late Mexico's 00´s.

1000% Me: Growing Up Mixed(en)

W. Kamau Bell tackles the joys and challenges of growing up mixed-race through conversations with kids and families in the San Francisco Bay Area, including his own.

Mother Says(zh)

The film follows different stages in the life of Sofía, a young girl born in Argentina of Chinese descent. From her childhood to her adulthood, she's conflicted by the clash and fusion of both her cultures, all while facing a strenuous relationship with her mother Jia, who places concerns and demands on her.

The Dark Side of a Woman(en)

Once finished her studies and the stage in the U.S.A., Jane Dimao returned to her town in Asia, to start her profession as psychologist with the specialization in woman's sexual pathologies. In carrying out her activity , Jane will have the opportunity to face with different patients, anyone of them with different sexual problems. Her involvement towards her patients background and the reading of the book she wrote with her good friend and teacher Nicole Wilson, will bring her to experience the same stories being told by her patients. That's why Jane will find herself committed in different sexual situations with no limits to her transgression. This will make her aware of an unknown deep part of herself. She will be abused… she will prostitute herself in a brothel in the outskirts of her town… she will give herself to strangers in a partners swingers club... she will experience sex in all its aspects.