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World Premiere, Wide Angle: Documentary Competition, 2025

10s Across the Borders

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Director CHAN Sze-Wei

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This film follows three leading characters of Southeast Asia’s ballroom scene—Teddy from Malaysia who ran away from his homophobic father, Xyza from the Philippines who found beauty in herself after being rejected by the modeling world, and Sun who was born to a Thai sex worker mother and European father. 10s Across the Borders is a pan-Asian queer film that confronts homophobia, transphobia, and racism while celebrating the region’s underground ballroom culture, interwoven with New York’s legendary ball scene. As the title suggests, Chan Sze-Wei envisions a world where members of Ballroom communities far from New York can also score a perfect 10. In the film’s finale, the performers’ surreal performance cuts between Southeast Asia’s back alleys and New York’s bustling streets, dissolving boundaries of nation, gender, race, age, religion, and class to soar beyond the rainbow. This is Southeast Asia’s answer to the seminal documentary about the New York ball culture, Paris is Burning (1990).

Programme note by KANG Sowon

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Screenings3

Sat, 09/20

20:0022:05

CGV Centum City 4

192Guest Q&AKE, Korean subtitles + English subtitles or English dialogue

Sun, 09/21

13:0015:05

CGV Centum City 2

265Guest Q&AKE, Korean subtitles + English subtitles or English dialogue

Mon, 09/22

16:0017:40

LOTTE CINEMA Centum City 7

385KE, Korean subtitles + English subtitles or English dialogue

Film details

Director: CHAN Sze-Wei
Country/Region: Philippines, Singapore, Germany
Year: 2025
Length: 100min
Section: Wide Angle: Documentary Competition
Edition: Busan International Film Festival 2025, No. 30
Original language: English
Premiere: World Premiere
Format: DCP, Color
Selection: Competitive section
Elsewhere: Festival page Letterboxd IMDb Wikidata TMDB Douban

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Director: CHAN Sze-Wei
Producer: Alemberg ANG, Yasmin RAMS, Sophia SIM, Si En TAN
Cast: Xyza Pinklady MIZRAHI, Teddy ORICCI, Aurora Sun LABEIJA
Cinematography: Tey CLAMOR, Grace BAEY, Vita SPIESS
Editing: Reiner KRAUSZ B.F.S.
Sound: Andreas RADZUWEIT
Music: Panos CHOUNTOULIDIS, Koppi MIZRAHI
Production company: Daluyong Studios

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