Asian Films at the 17th Slovak Queer Film Festival

The 17th Slovak Queer Film Festival kicks off on 22 November in Bratislava and the audience can look forward to 7 festival days, until 28 November. This edition introduces the FFi Shorts – International Competition, a competition of short films, presenting 3 Asian works: Adorable by Chung Cheng-hu (2018, TW/UK), Mum, If I Were a Vampire by Deborah Devyn Chuang (2022, TW), and Shoot Your Shot by Mishaal Memon (2022, UK/IN). In the Contemporary Cinema section, don’t miss the flamboyant comedy from the Philippines, I Love You, Beksman by Perci Intalan (2022).

A special programme Queer Hong Kong will open with a digitally restored version of Wong Kar-wai’s classic Happy Together (1997), winner of Best Director at Cannes 1997 and starring Tony Leung a Lesley Cheung, a Hong Kong queer icon. Aside from this film about lovers looking for happiness in Argentina, the section will also include the lesbian cult classic Butterfly (2004) from director Yan Yan Mak, whose brave ideas are still relevant today. In the light comedy Love Me Not (2011), director Gilitte Leung focuses on the friendship between lesbian Aggie and gay Dennis. From the controversial director Scud, Thirty Years of Adonis (2017) is a provocative, sensual film about love, sex, life, and death. And in Tracey (2018), Jun Li offers a sensitive discussion of transsexuality, which in Hong Kong cinema is rarely presented as anything other than an object of ridicule.

Tracey and Butterfly will screen in the presence of the producer Jacqueline Liu.

The section Queer Hong Kong is financially supported by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Berlin and selected by film programmer Kristina Aschenbrennerova.

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Contemporary Cinema

I Love You, Beksman by Perci Intalan