ShanghaiPRIDE 2014 Film Festival
ShanghaiPRIDE 2014 Film Festival Schedule
Date: Sunday 15-June – Friday 20-June
Time: 18:00(18:30)-21:30
Venue: The British Centre; Leiter der Abteilung Kultur und Bildung; Consulate General of Canada in Shanghai; Consulat Général du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg
Please bring ID/passport for entry to British Center, Canadian Consulate, and Luxembourg Consulate.
| Day | Date | Time | Film | Country | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | 15-Jun | 1800 | Brothers | China | The British Centre 17th Floor Garden Square , 968 West Beijing Road
Please bring ID/passport for entry |
| Top 3 Chinese Films by Voting | China | ||||
| The VaChina Monologues | China | ||||
| Mon | 16-Jun | 1830 | Last Chance | Canada | Consulate General of Canada in Shanghai + Consulate General of Luxembourg in Shanghai 8F & Suite 907, 1788 Eco City, West Nanjing Road (near Huashan Road), Jing’an District
Please bring ID/passport for entry |
| 2015 | Love in the Water | China | |||
| 2040 | Love at First Degree | China | |||
| 2105 | The Story of 9 Gays + Sharing | China | |||
| Tue | 17-Jun | 1830 | The House of Boys | Luxembourg/ Germany | Leiter der Abteilung Kultur und Bildung 101 Ascendas Cross Tower, 318 Fuzhou Road (near Shandong Middle Road) |
| 2030 | Comrade Yue | China | |||
| 2100 | My 17 Gay Friends + Sharing | China | |||
| Wed | 18-Jun | 1830 | Chloe Likes Olivia | Denmark | Bund Space supported by the Royal Danish Consulate General in Shanghai Suite 8508, 5/F, 687 Dongdaming Road (near Xinjian Road), Hongkou District |
| 1855 | YOLO | ||||
| 1930 | A Soap | ||||
| Thu | 19-Jun | 1830 | Weekend | UK | The British Centre 17/F Garden Square, 968 West Beijing Road (near Taixing Road), Jing’an District
Please bring ID/passport for entry |
| 2020 | Call Me Kuchu + Sharing | USA | |||
| Fri | 20-Jun | 1830 | Freier Fall | Germany | Leiter der Abteilung Kultur und Bildung Suite 101 Ascendas Cross Tower, 318 Fuzhou Road (near Shandong Middle Road) |
| 2015 | Links & Love + Sharing | China |
| Time | Film | Country | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun 15-Jun | |||
| 1800 | Top 3 Chinese films by voting | China | The British Centre 17th Floor Garden Square , 968 West Beijing Road
Please bring ID/passport for entry |
| Brother | China | ||
| The VaChina Monologues | China | ||
| Mon 16-Jun | |||
| 1830 | Last Chance | Canada | Consulate General of Canada in Shanghai 8th Floor, ECO City Building, No. 1788 Nanjing Xi RoadConsulat Général du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg9th Floor ECO City Building, 1788 Nanjing Xi Road
Please bring ID/passport for entry |
| 2015 | Love in the Water | China | |
| 2040 | Love at First Degree | China | |
| 2105 | The Story of 9 Gays + Sharing | China | |
| Tue 17-Jun | |||
| 1830 | The House of Boys | Luxembourg/ Germany | Leiter der Abteilung Kultur und Bildung 101 Ascendas Cross Tower, 318 Fuzhou Road (near Shandong Middle Road) |
| 2030 | Comrade Yue | China | |
| 2100 | My 17 Gay Friends + Sharing | China | |
| Wed 18-Jun | |||
| 1830 | Chloe Likes Olivia | Denmark | Supported by the Royal Danish Consulate General in Shanghai Suite 8508, 5/F, 687 Dongdaming Road (near Xinjian Road), Hongkou District |
| 1855 | YOLO | ||
| 1930 | A Soap | ||
| Thu 19-Jun | |||
| 1830 | Weekend | UK | The British Centre 17/F Garden Square, 968 West Beijing Road (near Taixing Road), Jing’an District
Please bring ID/passport for entry |
| 2020 | Call Me Kuchu + Sharing | USA | |
| Fri 20-Jun | |||
| 1830 | Freier Fall | Germany | Leiter der Abteilung Kultur und Bildung Suite 101 Ascendas Cross Tower, 318 Fuzhou Road (near Shandong Middle Road) |
| 2015 | Links & Love + Sharing | China | |
Film Introduction
6/15 Sunday
- Film
- Brothers
- Country
- China
- Length
- 30 mins
- Director
- Yao Yao
- Release Year
- 2013
Plot Summary: Brothers documents the life of Tony, who forms part of a group of female-to-male transgendered people who call each other brothers. The film depicts Tony’s coming-to-terms with his own identity, his struggles at work, his decision to undergo sex reassignment surgery and all the difficulties he encounters on his path.
- Film
- The VaChina Monologues
- Country
- China
- Length
- 30 mins
- Director
- Fan Popo
- Release Year
- 2013
Plot Summary: “Vagina. I’ve said it!” this is a speaking process as well as an acting process; this is a self-awakening process as well as a public-accepting process; this is a learning-recognizing process as well as a localizing process. After ten years, we revisit the stories of vaginas. We talk to the participants, visit current actors and listen to their vagina stories.
6/16 Monday
- Film
- Last Chance
- Country
- Canada
- Length
- 90 mins
- Director
- Paul-Émile d’Entremont
- Release Year
- 2012
Plot Summary: Last Chance is a documentary about five LGBT people seeking the right of asylum in Canada in order to escape persecution or homophobic violence in their homelands. Subjects in the film include a transgender woman who was institutionalized by her family in Lebanon, an LGBT person jailed in Egypt, as well as Trudi, a Jamaican lesbian who was “correctively raped” at gunpoint.
- Film
- Love in the Water
- Country
- China
- Length
- 21 mins
- Director
- Ren Xuanyu
- Release Year
- 2012
Plot Summary: Xiaole and Jialiang are two close friends, but they are not aware that each of them has deeper affections for the other. Jialiang has long suppressed his feeling, because in his mind homosexuality is unacceptable. With the help of his sister, Xiaole confesses to Jialiang, and Jialiang finally realizes that, love has nothing to do with gender, but the true feelings in one’s heart.
- Film
- Love at First Degree
- Country
- China
- Length
- 23 mins
- Director
- Leo
- Release Year
- 2012
Plot Summary: Throughout college, Lin Yifan has been in love with his friend Li Yang. Meanwhile, they have become good friends on an online gay social network Feizan.com. They set a date to meet but end up missing each other. Lin is about to leave Singapore for England to study, so that he can end this unrequited love. Before he leaves, Li finally discovers Lin’s feelings for him…what will happen then?
- Film
- The Story of 9 Gays
- Country
- China
- Length
- 6 mins
- Director
- Ming Yan
- Release Year
- 2013
Plot Summary: A series of short films on nine different homosexual personalities. Cute and hilarious, the film seeks to show the audience that homosexuals are not weird at all; in fact, they are great people.
6/17 Tuesday
- Film
- The House of Boys
- Country
- Luxembourg/Germany
- Length
- 113 mins
- Director
- Jean-Claude Schlim
- Release Year
- 2010
Plot Summary: A glamorous, colourful coming-of-age story that follows the dramatic journey of Frank, a high school kid in 1984, through an exciting world of sex and music, where his deep new passion is suddenly turned into a struggle for courage facing a new disease – the “gay cancer” – and becomes deep, true love in the expectancy of his friend’s horrible death and beyond.
- Film
- Comrade Yue
- Country
- China
- Length
- 30 mins
- Director
- Yue Jianbo
- Release Year
- 2013
Plot Summary: In Comrade Yue, gay coalminer turned filmmaker Yue Jianbo sketches an intimate and artistic portrait of himself.
- Film
- My 17 Gay Friends
- Country
- China
- Length
- 19 mins
- Director
- 彭陌勰
- Release Year
- 2013
Plot Summary: This story in this film takes place in the lively LGBT community in Beijing. Different LGBTs live here, carrying different labels. By exposing the social conditions of various LGBTers from all walks of life, the film attempts to express the idea that everyone might be different, but love is always equal.
6/18 Wednesday
- Film
- Chloe Likes Olivia
- Country
- Denmark
- Length
- 19 mins
- Director
- Mette Kjærgaard
- Release Year
- 2011
Plot Summary: Chloe Likes Olivia is a lesbian chamber play. After a night out, Olivia brought home Chloe. Chloe is in love with Olivia, but Chloe is in a relationship with Andrea, who is waiting at home. A love triangle unfolds during a short time and forces Olivia to make a choice: When is enough actually enough? A well played drama about life altering choices.
- Film
- YOLO/You Only Live Once
- Country
- Denmark
- Length
- 22 mins
- Director
- Marie Grahtø Sørensen
- Release Year
- 2011
Plot Summary: Kimmi, Sally and Nancy, best friends forever, are spending the night hiding out and drinking at their high school. Kimmi is a vampire and in love with Nancy, but what is ‘real sex’ and what are the boundaries of desire? Snow starts falling in the gym hall, blood flows freely on the thighs of teenage girls, and it’s going to be one hell of a neon colored night, but hey: You Only Live Once. YOLO! Coming-of-age drama with a brightly colored vision echoing pop, punk and music video aesthetics.
- Film
- A Soap
- Country
- Denmark
- Length
- 104 mins
- Director
- Pernille Fischer Christensen
- Release Year
- 2006
Plot Summary: Charlotte happens to become the upstairs neighbour of a transsexual named Veronica. An assault, a new bed, and some white curtains bring the two of them together…They end up becoming the main characters of their own turbulent “soap opera.”
6/19 Thursday
- Film
- Weekend
- Country
- U.K.
- Length
- 90 mins
- Director
- Andrew Haigh
- Release Year
- 2011
Plot Summary: On a Friday night after a drunken house party with his straight mates, Russell heads out to a gay club, alone and on the pull. Just before closing time he picks up Glen but what’s expected to be just a one-night stand becomes something else, something special. That weekend, in bars and in bedrooms, telling stories and having sex, the two men get to know each other. It is a brief encounter that will resonate throughout their lives. Weekend is both an honest and unapologetic love story between two guys and a film about the universal struggle for an authentic life in all its forms. It is about the search for identity and the importance of making a passionate commitment to your life.
- Film
- Call Me Kuchu
- Country
- USA
- Length
- 90 mins
- Director
- Malika Zouhali-Worrall, Katherine Fairfax Wright
- Release Year
- 2012
Plot Summary: In Uganda, a new bill threatens to make homosexuality punishable by death. David Kato – Uganda’s first openly gay man – and his fellow activists work against the clock to defeat the legislation while combating vicious persecution in their daily lives. But no one, not even the filmmakers, is prepared for the brutal murder that shakes the movement to its core and sends shock waves around the world.
6/20 Friday
- Film
- Freier Fall
- Country
- Germany
- Length
- 100 mins
- Director
- Stephan Lacant
- Release Year
- 2013
Plot Summary: Marc’s life seems to be right on track with a promising career and a baby on the way. Then he meets fellow policeman Kay and during their regular jogs Marc experiences a never-before-felt sense of ease and effortlessness — and what it means to fall in love with another man. Torn between his family and his new feelings for Kay, Marc sees his world careening more and more out of control. Suddenly, his life is in free fall and Marc realizes that try as he may, he can’t make everyone happy. Least of all, himself.
- Film
- Links & Love
- Country
- China
- Length
- 90 mins
- Director
- Ye Ben
- Release Year
- 2014
Plot Summary: This is a story of four modern city girls with different personalities and different life paths. Seven and Sylvia are struggling to admit their love for each other, while Xi and Amber are facing a crisis in their relationship and their identities. By accident, they meet a fairy who blesses them with magical power. The fairy leads them to see what is invisible in reality, and encourages them to discover their true selves and their love. #Better Together#
