Queer & Asian
| QUEER & ASIAN CinemAsia Film Festival finds her origins in the Queer & Asian Film Festival, which was organized by Doris Yeung and Petra van Dongen and held in 2003 in Filmhuis Cavia. During this festival it became clear that there was a demand for a more general Asian Film Festival as well. Queer & Asian became CinemAsia, but we never forgot our roots: the Queer & Asian selection is still an unique segment in our festival. This year our Queer & Asian selection contains 9 films, including the very sexy Permanent Residence (gay), the very first Vietnamese musical film Saigon Love Story and the more political LGBT documentary Queer China, Comrade China with after the film a panel discussion on Queer Asian Imaginations. Come and join us on our journey through LGBT Asia! Mix & Mingle: CinemAsia Queer party & Queer karaoke Date: 28 May 2010 Time: 23:30 – 02:00 uur Always wanted to be a pop star?! Come sing your heart out at our fabulous Queer Karaoke Party! Sing-a-long to the campiest queer karaoke songs on the big screen. With some very special surprise performances. Then dance the night away to the latest Asian pop tunes and gay dance hits, mixed by DJ Bo Monde. INVITATION: CinemAsia is looking for individuals and troops to rehearse the queer karaoke songs to be performed on 28 May. Want to be on stage, singing, dancing, wailing, shaking and blowing all others away? Send an e-mail to Dit e-mailadres is beschermd tegen spambots. U heeft Javascript nodig om het te kunnen zien. for more information on this event. Films  ANTIQUE (Korea – Gay)
(2008, 109 min, dir.: Kyu-Dong Min)Sexual tension and unsolved mystery are in the air at an upscale bakeshop in this romantic comedy-drama. 27 May 19:30 Het Ketelhuis 28 May 20:45 Het Ketelhuis  BOY (Philippines – Gay)
(2009, 80 min., dir: Aureas Solito)The boy, who is unnamed, visits a gay bar for the first time to observe lip-synching drag-queens and dancing rent-boys and finds himself smittened by Aries, one of the boys who dances in the bar. 27 May 19:15 Het Ketelhuis 28 May 23:30 Het Ketelhuis  CANDY RAIN (Taiwan – Lesbian)
(2008, 102 min., dir: Chen Hung-I)Four lyrical, intimate tales combined in one romantic drama about young lesbians in contemporary Taiwan. 27 May 21:00 Het Ketelhuis 28 May 18:30 Het Ketelhuis  A MOMENT IN JUNE (Thailand – Gay)
(2008, 106 min, dir.: O. Nathapon)Set in Thailand, A Moment In June is a story of the fusion of six lives, a song that links them together, a hope of the second chance that might never come and a moment they all need to make a life-changing decision. 24 May 16:45 Het Ketelhuis director present for Q&A  MOTHERLAND(China – Lesbian)
(2008, dir.: Doris Yeung)Raffi Tang, a young Asian-American woman is called home, after a long absence abroad, when her estranged mother is murdered. She becomes increasingly drawn into a web of deception and incompetence while at the same time dealing with her own grief. 28 May 21:30 Het Ketelhuis director present for Q&A  PERMANENT RESIDENCE (China – Gay)
(2009, 115 min., dir: Scud)Permanent Residence explores in complete embrace and full nudity, the life story of a young man who pursues an impossible love with his straight boyfriend and contemplates the death of his loved ones. 27 May 22:00 Het Ketelhuis 28 May 23:00 Het Ketelhuis  QUEER CHINA, ‘COMRADE’ CHINA(China – LGBT)
(2009, 118 min, dir.: Zi’en Cui)This documentary reviews and summarizes the development of homosexuality as an issue in the past thirty years in China. 28 May 19:30 Het Ketelhuis director present for panel discussion after screening Panel discussion: Queer asian imaginations Guests: Cui Zi’en (QUEER COMRADES), Kit Hung (SOUNDLESS WINDCHIME), Michiel Baas (IIAS), Jeroen de Kloet (IIAS), Doris Yeung (MOTHERLAND)  SAIGON LOVE STORY (Vietnam – Gay)
(2006, dir.: Ringo Le)The movie tells the tale of the young boy Danh who meets the cassette vendor Tam with whom he shares the passion of singing and with whom falls in love. Unfortunately, his mother has other plans for him… 21 May 19:30 Het Ketelhuis  UNTIL THE MOON WAXES (Japan – Lesbian)
(2007, 60 minutes, dir.: Iri)The shy college student Ayami leaves her home town for two weeks in Tokyo. On her first night out in a ‘lady bar’, she has an encounter that turns her world around. 27 May 23:00 Het Ketelhuis |
