MilkTea Presents: Mixtape: Youth Edition + Q+A

East of Punk includes a curated short film program that captures what it means to come of age between cultures.

These films from British East and Southeast Asian filmmakers offer intimate portraits of adolescence as their young characters learn to rebel, desire, and love.

From a child dreaming of dancing from the family nail salon to a teenage boy’s painfully relatable Google searches, we invite you into the worlds of youth with all its awkwardness, humor, and the search for belonging.

Molly (dir. Darius Shu): a chance meeting in a launderette sparks an unexpected intimacy between two young men.

In Dreaming (dir. Kristina Pringle): in a nail salon, the owner's son juggles adolescence with a burning desire to chase his dreams.

Dear Google (dir. Sky Yang): a teenager's Google search history becomes a poem about growing up mixed-race Chinese.

Lionhead (dir. Alvin Yu): on Chinese New Year, a British-Chinese teenager invited to a house party must face his shame about lion dancing.

MilkTea and Picturehouse collaborate on EAST OF PUNK is a three-event cinema season developed in response to the BFI’s Rip It Up season. It traces how cultures travel, beginning with punk’s journey from the UK to Japan, and opening out into a multitude of British ESEA youth cultures as they’re lived today