A new Japanese-Taiwanese co-production is seeking financing at the Tokyo Gap-Financing Market , bringing together voices from across borders to tell an intimate story set in Tokyo’s LGBTQ+ hub.

“ Polaris ,” directed by Seta Natsuki and produced by Twenty First City in partnership with Taiwan’s Volos Films , unfolds over one winter night at a bar in Ni-chome. Based on the novel “The Night of the Shining North Star” by Li Kotomi, the film centers on women of different ages, nationalities and sexualities who gather in the titular establishment, sharing drinks, laughter and fragments of their lives under soft blue light. As their stories intersect like stars in a constellation, the film explores themes of self-identity and human connection before the women part ways at dawn.

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