London’s Queer East Festival is back for its seventh edition, showcasing cinema and performing arts in venues across the British capital from** **May 1 to June 6.
The annual exploration of East and Southeast Asia’s ever-evolving queer landscape will kick off at the Barbican with the U.K. premiere of the landmark 4K restoration of the 1986 Taiwanese film The Outsiders, the first screen adaptation of Pai Hsien-Yung’s groundbreaking novel Crystal Boys, which was directed by Yu Kan-Ping. The restored version includes previously censored material, with the Queer East Festival vowing to present it “in its full, hallucinatory glory.”