Films

Stonewall  Stonewall  R
羅蘭艾默瑞奇 Roland Emmerich
US / 2015 / Color / 129mins

The gay rights drama “Stonewall” takes us back to 1969 to New York’s Greenwich Village, where a police raid on Stonewall Inn ignites a riot and a crusade for gay rights. Danny Winters is a young man newly acquainted to New York after recognizing himself as a gay man. He joins the crowd at Stonewall Inn, the prominent hang-out of the local queer culture. There he witnesses passion and activism, but also corruption and violence. The film is directed by Roland Emmerich ("White House Down", 2013) and features Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Jeremy Irvine, and Ron Perlman.

Drown  Drown  R
Dean Francis
Australia / 2015 / Color / 93mins

如同宰制在人類靈魂中的恐懼、恐同、競爭、忌妒以及殘暴等悲劇式寓言。改編自廣受好評的舞台劇本,描繪在知名雪梨海灘背景下,所上演...

Spa Night  Spa Night  PG15
Andrew Ahn
USA / 2016 / Color / 97mins

Like many first generation immigrants, David Cho serves as the intermediary between his parents’ insular Koreatown life in Los Angeles. When the family restaurant is forced to close, the balance of the household is threatened and tension mounts at home. In an unfamiliar twist on more familiar immigrant stories, David does not accept his parents’ dreams for him to pursue an education and decides to help his family make ends meet by secretly taking a job at a Korean spa. There, David finds himself suddenly exposed to the clash between traditional Korean culture and the underground world of gay hook-ups.

Boy Meets Boy  Boy Meets Boy  P
金趙光壽 KIM JHO Gwang-soo
南韓 South Korea / 2008 / Color / 13mins

On a warm spring day Min-soo, a small boy, meets tall and broad-shouldered Seok inside a bus. Min-soo keeps looking at the tough boy whose sharp eyes are hidden under his baseball cap. Min-soo’s heart starts beating. What will happen to Min-soo and Seok?

Love, 100°C  Love, 100°C  PG
金趙光壽 KIM JHO Gwang-soo
南韓 South Korea / 2010 / Color / 22mins

A hearing-impaired boy, Min-soo is gay, and he likes his classmate, Ji-seok. One day, Min-su impulsively has sex with a man who works in a public bath. After the day, Min-su goes to the bath house very often.

Holding the Man  Holding the Man  R
Neil Armfield
Australia / 2015 / Color / 128mins

Based on the much loved and hugely successful memoir and stage play of the same name, Holding the Man is the warm, funny and achingly sad story of the 15 year long love affair between Timothy Conigrave and the boy he fell in love with at high school, John Caleo. Tim was an aspiring actor. John, the captain of the school football team. Their relationship blossomed and endured in the face of prejudice, adversity and the cruel illness that devastated the gay community in the '80s.

Peter & the Wolf  Peter & the Wolf  R
Wes Hurley
Canada / 2013 / Color / 5mins

An adult retelling of Peter and the Wolf

Just Friends?  Just Friends?  P
金趙光壽 KIM JHO Gwang-soo
南韓 South Korea / 2009 / Color / 29mins

Expecting a cozy night outside of the barracks, Seok visits his boyfriend Min-soo who is serving in the military. However they run into Min-soo’s mother there. When his mother questions their relationship, the only answer they can give is that they are ‘just friends.’ Unexpectedly, they spend the night with Min-soo’s mother.

Women Who Kill  Women Who Kill  PG15
Ingrid Jungermann
USA / 2016 / Color / 96mins

Commitment phobic Morgan and her ex-girlfriend Jean, hosts of a female serial killer-centric podcast, still show all the signs of being a couple. But everything changes when Morgan falls hard and fast for the mysterious Simone. Jean shows Morgan proof that Simone may not be who she says she is, and Morgan starts to notice red flag. As they uncover disturbing clues, Morgan has to examine all the evidence in front of her: Is she just afraid of what it means to be in a relationship or is her life actually in danger?

Finding Phong  Finding Phong  P
Swann Dubus
Vietnam / 2015 / Color / 92mins

From the time he was a young boy, Phong has felt like a girl trapped in a boy’s body. He grew up in a town in rural Vietnam, and it was only when he moved to Hanoi to attend university that he discovered he was not alone with this predicament. The decision to “find himself” by physically changing his gender is a struggle that involves his family, friends, and doctors – all of whom must come to terms with the boy’s determination to become a complete girl.

Barash  Barash  PG15
Michal Vinik
Israel / 2015 / Color / 83mins

17 year-old Naama Barash enjoys alcohol, drugs and hanging out with like-minded friends. Her activities are an escape from a home where her parents always fight, and a rebellious, army-enrolled sister, who, one day, disappears. As a new girl shows up at school, Barash falls deep in love for the first time, and the intensity of the experience at once confuses her and gives her life new meaning.

AWOL  AWOL  R
Deb Shoval
USA / 2016 / Color / 85mins

Joey, 18, falls hard for Rayna, 27, a sexy, married mother of two. Threatened by Rayna’s husband, fired from her job at the local dairy, and without many economic opportunities, Joey reluctantly joins the Army. Days before deployment to Afghanistan and still wildly in love, Joey returns home to rural Pennsylvania and plans to go AWOL with Rayna and her kids.

Open Up to Me   Open Up to Me   PG
Simo Halinen
芬蘭 Finland / 2013 / Color / 95mins

Maarit is a beautiful woman – who used to be a man. She is estranged from her daughter, her ex life and is working as a cleaner. When she falls in love with Sami – soccer coach, teacher and family man – she finally feels like she can ‘fit in’ somewhere. In a world that considers Maarit a freak, Sami is forced to confront his own deeply hidden prejudices. Maarit has to step into a brave new world where only she can determine her sense of belonging.

Four Moons  Four Moons  R
Sergio Tovar Velarde
Mexico / 2014 / Color / 105mins

“Four Moons” sensitively depicts the phases of life through four stories, taking us on four journeys, from childhood to old age. A fragile boy develops a crush on his homophobic cousin. A college student falls in love with his former childhood friend, and their first attempt at male-on-male sex is pure comical awkwardness. Two longtime lovers enjoy their seemingly perfect gay life with financial security and enviable dinner parties, only if one of them can quit his sexual addiction for good. Finally, the story turns to a retired college professor who contemplates the elusive lifetime desire of a relationship with a hunky hustler he meets at a sauna.

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