Pride5 Film Festival Schedule

Date: Sunday 16-June – Thursday 20-June

Time:Opening 17:30-20:30;Others 18:30-21:30
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Venue: Alliance Française de Shanghai; Goethe-Institut; Biblioteca Miguel de Cervantes; Consulate General of Canada in Shanghai

Film Introduction

16-June Sunday

Film: Comme les Autres
Country: France
Length: 93mins
Director: Vincent Garenq
Release Year: 2008
Intro：They were the perfect loving couple, well, almost. Emmanuel wanted a child but Philippe did not. One day, however, Emmanuel decides to take the plunge, at the risk of losing Philippe. But how do you make a child when you are gay?

Film: My Spiritual Medicine
Country: China
Length: 35mins
Director: Liang Cheng
Release Year: 2011
Intro：Two separated stories, connected by radio waves, Shenye & Moro are two normal white-collars in Shanghai. Every night, they put on their headphones and play their favourite songs from the 50’s and 60’s of Europe and US, hosting a fascinating night-time radio program, “My Spiritual Medicine”. A lonely copper handle, separated an old house woman from the outside world for many years. She never went out and always washed her hands before doing anything. She listened to the radio program all day……

17-June Monday

Film: Drei
Country: Germany
Length: 119mins
Director: Tom Tykwer
Release Year: 2010
Intro：A Berlin-set drama centred on a 40-something couple who, separately, fall in love with the same man.

Film: Latte
Country: China
Length: 15mins
Director: Xi Wang
Release Year: 2011
Intro：It was an afternoon, in a coffee shop, two guys met accidentally. Yin Ze, who disregard love, was attracted by Xiao Mu’s pureness, and sincerely tried to start a relationship. The two boys got closer, immersed in their fantasy of love. However, Xiao Mu’s mother wanted him to get married soon. Where would this relationship lead to after the arrival of Xi Mu’s girlfriend? Would a cup of latte result in an unbearable bitterness eventually?

Film: The Summer Time
Country: China
Length: 15mins
Director: Jie Chen
Release Year: 2011
Intro：During the summer, two high school girls met in an English tuition class. Jingru, a devoted student, had good feelings about Ziyang who was a little shy. The relationship between them bloomed in the summer, however put to a stop following the pressure of their teacher. Ziyang decided to leave without saying goodbye. Several years later, these two girls met again. Would this relationship come up to a result or just stay as it was at first.

18-June Tuesday

Film: We Are Tomboys
Country: China
Length: 27mins
Director: DaJing
Release Year: 2011
Intro：In the daily lives of millions, knowing who, it is an arrangement, or by coincidence? A Girl in search of her another half. Four tomboys of different personalities, each with a different or common?story, coming together……

Film: Language of Love
Country: Australia
Length: 10mins
Director: Laura Scrivano
Release Year: 2013
Intro：In the middle of a French language exam, 17 year old Charlie struggles to find the words to be true to himself and his best friend. ?A wry, delicate take on first love and awakening sexuality desires from a young man’s perspective. The short film is a production of the The Voices Project from the Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP).

Film: Fake Orgasm
Country: Spain
Length: 81mins
Director: Jo Sol
Release Year: 2010
Intro：The film was recorded according to new paradigms of the genre as a creative documentary. Pearlman, a conceptual artist, destroyed our prejudices about sex and identity by his sharp arguments. Since its debut, the purity and transgression of this film has attracted much attention in major international film festivals.

19-June Wednesday

Film: White Frog
Country: Canada/USA
Length: 93mins
Director: Quentin Lee
Release Year: 2012
Intro：The film tells a story about how a 15 year old autism boy opened himself to the world after an unexpected accident hit his brother who was the only one who can communicate with this boy.

Film: I’m here
Country: Macao, China
Length: 43mins
Director: Tracy Choi
Release Year: 2012
Intro：Some people may think that coming out of the closet is the main obstacle for the homosexuals but the true is there are different circumstances that come up in daily life that bothered the most, especially for those who living in a small town. Due of the lacking of information about the homosexual, they might interpret themselves as heterogeneity and it only made a different after explored to the big big world.

Film: Different Path, Same Way
Country: Hong Kong, China
Length: 45mins
Director: Chi Man Yung
Release Year: 2012
Intro：Can two people form a family solely for the sake of love? Guy and Henry, a couple deeply in love, had willingly travelled all the way from Hong Kong to Vancouver, Canada in order to get married, when such marriage is not even recognized legally in their hometown. Why did they make such a big effort to do this? What is the true meaning of marriage? Their friends and family witnessed the wedding from both sides of the Pacific Ocean. Their path might have been different from the one taken by heterosexual partners, but the true love they are after is the same.

20-June Thursday

Film: The World Unseen
Country: UK/South Africa
Length: 94mins
Director: Shamim Sarif
Release Year: 2008
Intro： In 1950’s South Africa, apartheid is just beginning. Free-spirited Amina has broken all the rules of her own conventional Indian community in South Africa by running a cafe. Miriam, on the other hand, is a doting mother to her children and a demure and subservient wife to her chauvinistic, frustrated husband, Omar. When Miriam meets Amina, their unexpected attraction throws them both off balance.

Film: Women
Country: China
Length: 86mins
Director: HuaQiang Li
Release Year: 2012
Intro： was filmed during China & US curators and artists launched an art exhibition which focused on women and gender, sexual orientation diversity, feminism and LGBT issues. From the art exhibition, the documentary extended to the public and the daily lives of the LGBT community, looking into the LGBT community and its diverse interpersonal emotions and relationships. The documentary is Shanghai’s first to discuss the current status of gender equality and social progress locally. Also, it tries to explore the city’s dynamic with gender and sex from an artistic perspective, showcasing the thinking of contemporary artists on individuals, society and acceptance.

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