Pride Film Festival

June 15 to 17

Kimpton Maa-Lai Bangkok, 78 Soi Tonson, Lumpini, Pathumwan; free admission with advance reservation via kimptonmaalaibangkok.com

Hotels are not the first place one looks for genuine queer curation, but the Kimpton Maa-Lai has quietly built something worth paying attention to. The Pride Film Festival returns for a mid-June run in the hotel’s library on the 30th floor, a room that already feels like a secret you’ve been allowed into, screening a programme of LGBTQIA+ films drawn from Thailand and beyond.

Previous editions have included the elegiac Thai drama Malila: The Farewell Flower and the cult classic The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, suggesting a curatorial appetite that ranges from arthouse grief to sequined joy without batting an eye.

Seating is limited and entry is free, but you must reserve ahead the kind of civilised arrangement that ensures the room fills with actual viewers, not just people who wandered in for the air conditioning. Reservations and screening times at kimptonmaalaibangkok.com.