DEAR MOM & DAD – SPECIAL SCREENING
“Coming out” remains one of the biggest challenges among the LGBTQ community. Closet doors were opened and closed in schools, workplaces, within families and the society. Family members are the closest to us, many children are insecure and lost when dealing with relationship with their love ones. We hear of loving, helpless, exciting and broken-hearted stories, they are presented in films that touches many of us.
On 19-Nov 3PM, ShanghaiPRIDE with The Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Shanghai and PFLAG China will co-host “Dear Mom & Dad”, a special film screening of short films from The Netherlands and China about coming out.
We will be screening four short films: Straight With You (Daan Bol), Out in Chongqing (Jie Ren), Mama Can You Hear Me? (Lotte van Gaalen), and Pink Dads (Fan Popo), and have invited four special guests to share their stories.
Saturday 2016-11-19 15:00-17:00
Ruijin Cajun – 1/F, Bldg A3, 800 Changde Rd near Changping Rd
Free Entry
Straight With You
Director: Daan Bol
2013 | The Netherlands | 19 mins
Straight With You is a documentary about eleven-year-old Melvin, who has a secret: he is not into girls. Although his family knows, he’s afraid to tell his schoolmates, as he thinks they might start bullying him. What should he do when the coolest girl in his class sends him a love letter?
Out in Chongqing
Director: Jie Ren
2016 | China | 17 mins
A documentary about parents of LGBTQ people, their journey to accept their children and their quest for equal rights.
Mama Can You Hear Me
Director: Lotte van Gaalen
2014 | The Netherlands | 25 mins
The Dutch gay choir Vox Rosa is working on a show about the complicated bond between mother and son. The members of the choir belong to a generation of gay men who grew up in a time in which their mothers’ approval often wasn’t so easily given. The pressure this puts on the relationship between a mother and her son is an experience which, apart from singing together, binds the choir together tightly. Mama can you hear me is a documentary about motherly love, letting go and acceptance.
Pink Dads
Director: Popo Fan
2016 | China | 20 mins
Documentary agitator Fan Popo invites fathers of adult lesbian and gay people to experience the problems their children face through role-play.
