MALAYSIANSKINI | Dressed almost invariably in black, with a trusty heavy camera often slung across her back, documentary filmmaker and journalist Chen Yih Wen is a familiar fixture at major news events in Malaysia.

Yet, she is constantly navigating, physically and artistically, the borders of her craft and country.

This year, her feature-length documentary “Queer As Punk” achieved what very few Malaysian films have: selection by...