IQMF: Chinese Queer Shorts (Curated by Popo Fan) incl. panel talk
新前門大街New Beijing, New Marriage
Duration: 18’ | Director: Popo Fan, David Cheng | Language: Mandarin | Subtitles: English | Country: China | Year: 2009
On the Valentine’s Day in 2019, a gay couple and a lesbian couple chose to have their wedding photos taken on the Qianmen Street in Beijing. On this beautiful spring day in Beijing, a lot of interesting conversations was made.
成都彩虹Chengdu Rainbow
Duration: 24’ | Director: Li Yaqi | Language: Mandarin | Subtitles: Chinese, English | Country: China | Year: 2021
Chengdu Rainbow is a nonprofit organization focused on the LGBTQ community — originally, it was known as Chengdu Milk. The film showcases the organization’s restructuring, efforts to build itself up, and subsequent decline. The main subject of the film, Matthew, is the founder of the organization and a member of the LGBTQ community. His initial motivation for founding it was to help LGBTQ individuals facing mental health challenges, but ultimately he also left due to his own mental health struggles.
Beer! Beer!
Duration: 17’ | Director: Popo Fan | Language: English | Subtitles: English | Country: Germany | Year: 2019
An “anti-romantic comedy” set in the early morning following a wild party in Berlin. When Tao, a Chinese guy, meets Sebastian, a local German. As they seem to get more and more intimate with each other, suddenly a mattress changes everything…
Ice Cream, Ice Queen
Duration: 17’ | Director: Jeremy Chi | Language: English, Mandarin Chinese, Korean | Subtitles: English | Country: USA | Year: 2024
Lost in the lonely life of New York City, a middle-aged Chinese woman wrestles with the complexities of her unexpected bond with her son’s lesbian violin teacher.