Friday, May 22, 2026
6:30-9 pm
FREE
Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project-QWOCMAP presents the 22nd annual International Queer Women of Color Film Festival—47 films by queer women, nonbinary, and trans filmmakers of color, screening from May through October 2026. This year’s festival theme, “We Resist, and We Roll,” holds the fullness of what this community does. We push back against the forces that try to erase us. And we keep making films. WRaWR—because we’ve always done both at the same time.
OACC is honored to host one of the Film Festival’s opening events, the Queer Asian World Cinema satellite screening. Experience a dance floor turned into history. A teenager seeing themselves clearly at last. Two best friends holding onto one last summer. A collective built against silence. A body that can’t close its eyes and a desert haunted by water. A girl and her ramen rewriting the West. Love and hurt imagined before birth. A night that pulls two sisters off course. Eight films moving between memory, diaspora, and dream where identity flickers, stretches, and insists on being seen.
This screening is presented by QWOCMAP in partnership with the Oakland Asian Cultural Center, Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center (APICC), and Visual Communications in Los Angeles. It is free to attend, but registration is requested at the link below. Masking will be required, and free masks will be provided at the event.
The Queer Asian World Cinema screening will include the following films:
• Stay Hot Stay Chill by Nancy YiYu Chen
• Memoria by Ross Vasallo
• Stroke of Dreams by Tracy Nguyen
• Because of You: A History of Kilawin Kolektibo by Barbara Malaran & Desireena Almoradie
• Somewhere To Be by Libby Chun
• Hugs & Kisses by Alexandra Orr
• A Swim in the Desert by Coffee Kang
• Ramen Western by Meloddy Gao
ABOUT QWOCMAP
Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project-QWOCMAP builds narrative power by transforming the world’s most expensive art form into a tool for liberation. Founded in 2000, QWOCMAP funds, creates, exhibits, and distributes high-impact films to shatter stereotypes and bias, reveal the lived truth of inequality, and illuminate the incisive leadership and creative brilliance of LBTQIA+ people of color.
QWOCMAP provides critical support and resources for LBTQIA+ BIPOC filmmakers. Over 500 films have been created through our award-winning Filmmaker Training Program, the largest catalog of films by LBTQIA+ BIPOC filmmakers in the world. QWOCMAP presents its annual International Queer Women of Color Film Festival to build community and cross-movement solidarity. QWOCMAP’s curatorial practice and boutique film distribution strengthens political education and movement building. Our vision advances cultural resistance and renewal through filmmaker-activists who reshape power structures and create futures where justice and equity are the norm.