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The quintet of friends that buoy the story sound like teens, adding veracity to the bittersweet story, which strangely is not as weepy as it could be. Opening night is an exercise in opposites. It’s one of a handful of LGBTQ+ films to ever come out of Nigeria, and deservedly picked up the Teddy Award at the Berlinale earlier this year.
The Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film Festival runs from September 8 to 23, 2023.
7 Hong Kong films that celebrate pride and the LGBTQ+ community
Hong Kong independent film director Ray Yeung’s drama film Suk Suk, also known as Twilight’s Kiss, tells the story of two homosexual men in their later years.
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Hong Kong offers a vibrant and evolving environment for the LGBTQ+ community, with a range of venues, events, and resources available. It’s a musical road trip that goes exactly where you think it will, but is no less frothy and fun for it. The border is open, so directors will be in town for post-screening Q&As.
CoraBora is partnered with South Korean director Byun Sung-bin’s debut Peafowl, starring Choi Hae-jun as Myung, a transgender woman who must perform a traditionally gendered dance at her father’s memorial. And Singaporean director Ken Kwek’s #Look at Me brilliantly interrogates the clash of religion, law and social media that arises when a young man publicly defends his gay brother from a hateful, but powerful, church leader.
The American film Cora Bora, by Hannah Pearl Utt, stars Megan Stalter as Cora, a failing musician with a failing love life. Leading the pack might be Indigenous Queer with Matthew Thorne and Derik Lynch, on hand to talk about the Yankunytjatjara people of Australia, after their short film Marungka Tjalatjunu (Dipped in Black). Additional terms and conditions apply.
Pak, played by Taiwanese actor Tai Bo, is a 70-year-old taxi driver who meets Hoi, a 65-year-old single father played by Hong Kong theatre actor Ben Yuen, in a park. The slower Before Sunrise chronicles the emerging bond between a truck driver and a budding photographer as they explore modern Lagos’s corners.
- Olivier Peyton adapts Lie With Me (France) from the book by Philippe Besson
- Iranian actor Payman Maadi in Milad Alami’s Opponent (Sweden)
On the global front, Iranian actor Payman Maadi, best known for Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation, gets a chance to shine in Swedish-Iranian director Milad Alami’s Opponent as an Iranian refugee in remote Sweden whose past comes back to haunt him when he joins the local wrestling team.
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- ‘Cora Bora’
- ‘Peafowl’
But the main reason most of us will hit HKLGFF is for the films, and the 34th edition has a strong, accessible line-up to support its return to the spotlight.
French director Olivier Peyon adapts Lie With Me from the book by Philippe Besson, and follows a successful middle-aged author returning to his provincial hometown (is there a pattern to the programme this year?) and grappling with his romantic history. It says a great deal that the films’ production credits are technically Switzerland, and Romania/Canada, a testament to just how brave and important the films are.
Peafowl ends on a curious, possibly divisive note, but there is no doubting Choi’s incredibly lived-in, moving turn as Myung.
- ‘Golden Delicious’
- ‘Glitter Doom’
The festival closes on a literal high note this year with the luminous, colourful, joyous US-Mexico co-production Glitter & Doom.