This movie is a gorgeous, heartbreaking trip to pre-war China where the opera stage is the only place where true feelings can hide in plain sight.
East Palace, West Palace (1996) is a bold and gritty story about a night in a Beijing police station that changed Chinese cinema forever. It is an intense look at the cat-and-mouse game between a defiant writer and a young cop who is way out of his depth.
A midnight scooter ride through Taipei turns into something more when two old friends start feeling a different kind of chemistry.
To satisfy his nagging parents, a gay landlord and a female tenant agree to a marriage of convenience, but his parents arrive to visit and things get out of hand.
Director: Ang Lee
Fei works illegally to support family, but they reject his lifestyle. Through Long, Fei finds hope, until encountering Xiaolai, his past love, who makes him confront his guilt.
Director: C.B. Yi
When a gay fashion stylist works with a renowned foreign actor, they both embark on a journey of self-discovery.
Director: Ray Yeung
A defiant shorts exploring passion, persecution, and revolt from past, present, and future eras, ranging from tales of an anxious young drag queen in mid-’90s Chile to a lively American summer camp that flips the script on gay panic
Light was sexually assaulted by his stepfather and has always been lack of love in his childhood. After his mother, the only blood related family was killed and was forced to prostitute since then.
Directed by Adiamond Lee
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
Having gay dads, Qiu, a sixth-grade boy, takes action to prove to the world that, unlike his parents, he is straight and manly. It’s no joke.
Written & Directed by Guo Shang-Sing
Grieving over the death of an ex-girlfriend, Jia Le moves in to stay with an actor friend. The actor, however, often suffers spasms of pain in his body as he prepares to move to China for a better life.
Written & Directed by Edmund Yeo
Jeff is taking care of everything Mark left behind when he died in an accident. Mark was about to have a visitor, Andrea, an Italian guy he met online. Jeff and Andrea have the chance to share memories of the Mark they knew while getting to know each other.
Director: Yen Tan
Stars: Adam Neal Smith, Alessandro Calza, Chuck Blaum, Ethel Lung
In a winter evening of 1979, the arrest of anti-government protesters involved in the Formosa Incident is underway. The city is under curfew, but a teenage student, out of curiosity, follows a mysterious young man from a riverside path into an abandoned hut.
Two best friends Shane and Jonathan learn more about themselves in an ever evolving sexuality.
Director: Leste Chen
In a motel room a sexual threesome has been arranged. The two men lying in wait are officers from the Central Narcotics Bureau, ready to apprehend their suspect, who is going to show up with crystal meth at any moment.
Director: Zihan Loo
Struggling with maintaining his same-sex long term relationship a secret and keeping up with his image of being the perfect straight A son, Alex must face his father and tell him the truth about his sexuality.
Director: Mariana Robles Thome
Writer: Todd Lien
Stars: Nathan Chen, Zach Cramblit, Todd Lien
Facing rebellious faze and helpless family problems, Jie-Yu chose to take refuge in the safe harbor of friend Yan-Shiu. As the relationship between them develops further and further, the sexuality within Yan-Shiu towards Jie-Yu also grows.
Director: Jian-He Lin
Lilting (2014) Director: Hong Khaou Writer: Hong Khaou Genre: Drama, Romance Country: UK Language: English, Mandarin Duration: 91 min Year: 2014 Stars:
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…
