A young, gay student has a relationship with an older, successful businessman. The handsome playboy-businessman must choose between his comfortable, yet closeted straight life, or an honest, yet subversive life with the student.
Director: Stanley Kwan
‘Two Men’ – by young Chinese director, Zhao Yuanhao, with choreography by Yang Shao and an original score by Gao Xin. A live dance performance will follow, as well as a Q&A session where you can meet the Director, Assistant Director and members of the cast.
A gay man faces his fear of abandonment after revealing a secret to his partner.
‘Alone’ was originally shot as a segment for the feature film Exquisite Corpse. It was re-edited in 2018 as an opportunity to revisit the characters and restore cut footage that altered the trajectory of their story.
Director: MATTHEW BAREN
7 young men and women and their three stories involved with heterosexual, homosexual and bisexual affairs that happened in Beijing. A single mom meets a young student; A city boy meets a guy of his dream; A girl falls into a love game of a male and a female fellows in her French class.
In a remote part of Southern China, a mysterious Westerner (Pierre-Matthieu Vital) appears on a riverbank, completely naked. Taken to the police station and afterwards to the hospital, he refuses to speak. While the doctors soon resign, the hospital’s orderly, Jiang (Gao Qilun), befriends the stranger. When Jiang learns that the Westerner is about to be transferred to a mental asylum, he decides to rescue him and takes him to his uncle’s village. There, he accidentally discovers a secret past that provides a key to the mysterious stranger’s past…
