In a remote small town, a neurodivergent teen forms an unlikely rapport  with an international student from Shanghai volunteering at the hospital  where they are a patient. Between the two, a bond forms, cemented by  their candid conversations, nightly text messages, and exchange of their  deepest secrets. The boundaries of their friendship quickly expand into  something special, altering their inner alchemy.

Queens of the Qing Dynasty is a queer story that breaches the absurd and poetic, the platonic and the  romantic. Both intimate and intense, it explores the intrinsic beauty  and innate flaws of what it is to be human, the profundity of  connection, and the vortex of mental illness. The electronic music score  blurs between cinema foley and sound design to create a feeling of an  alternate plane. Queens of the Qing Dynasty is an affectionate ode to women, asexuals, and neurodiverse and  genderqueer individuals who exist beyond the norms of society by writer  and director Ashley McKenzie, who was previously featured at Acropolis with Werewolf (2016).

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In person: Beatrice Loayza