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Queer as Punk (2025)

87 min
Documentary

Being LGBT is criminalised in Muslim-majority Malaysia. Trans man Faris and his punk band still travel the country playing gigs and protesting on the streets. A documentary portrait of courageous people, humorous friendship and the spirit of punk.

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From Stonewall to the AIDS crisis to today's battles — films documenting the real, raw, fierce history of queer resistance and survival. We remember. We fight. We persist. These are the films that bear witness.

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Yihwen Chen director
Yihwen Chen producer
Mandy Marahimin producer

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rm Apr 11, 2026

A trans man in MALAYSIA playing in a punk band and protesting on the streets where being LGBTQ+ is literally criminalised. Let me say that again. CRIMINALISED. And Faris and his bandmates are out there living their truth anyway, with guitars and gigs and righteous fury. This is what bravery actually looks like — not the performative allyship of corporations slapping rainbows on their logos in June. This is skin-in-the-game, heart-on-your-sleeve, could-actually-get-arrested resistance. I am in AWE. Every comfortable queer in a safe country should watch this and recommit to the fight.