Queer East Film Festival is delighted to unveil its full programme centred on queer storytelling and activism from East and Southeast Asia. This year’s programme includes a selection of 37 features, short films and artists’ moving image works from 15 countries, ranging from new releases to classic retrospectives, mainstream box office hits to radical independent works, accompanied by pre- screening introductions and filmmaker Q&As. A series of online panel discussions with international guests will run throughout the festival period, covering topics such as women in the film industry, queer film festivals, and the development of Asian LGBTQ+ movements.
Launched in 2020, Queer East is a new film festival that aims to amplify the voices of Asian communities in the UK, who have often been excluded from mainstream discourse, despite Asians being one of the country’s fastest-growing ethnic groups. Queer East seeks to facilitate a better understanding of the richness of queer Asian heritage,...
Launched in 2020, Queer East is a new film festival that aims to amplify the voices of Asian communities in the UK, who have often been excluded from mainstream discourse, despite Asians being one of the country’s fastest-growing ethnic groups. Queer East seeks to facilitate a better understanding of the richness of queer Asian heritage,...
- 8/25/2021
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
It's great to see Zhang Yimou return to more dramatic fare after the bonkers Blood Simple remake (read our review: Zhang Yimou's Blood Simple ). 13 Flowers Of Nanjing certainly counts as 'dramatic'. The film stars Christian Bale as an American priest trapped in Nanjing during the infamous invasion of Nanjing in 1937.
If you've never read up on this atrocious period of history then you must. Also see Tun Fei Mou's hideous and unrelentingly bleak film, Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre, if you've got a strong stomach. Obviously Zhang Yimou will deliver a more measured affair, but this chapter in Chinese history is appalling beyond belief. There's also an excellent HBO documentary on this subject matter.
Synopsis:
13 Flowers of Nanjing is set in 1937 in Nanjing, China during Sino-Japanese War, where a few brave refugees find sanctuary in a Church compound. The group, thrown together by the terrible chaos of war, risks...
If you've never read up on this atrocious period of history then you must. Also see Tun Fei Mou's hideous and unrelentingly bleak film, Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre, if you've got a strong stomach. Obviously Zhang Yimou will deliver a more measured affair, but this chapter in Chinese history is appalling beyond belief. There's also an excellent HBO documentary on this subject matter.
Synopsis:
13 Flowers of Nanjing is set in 1937 in Nanjing, China during Sino-Japanese War, where a few brave refugees find sanctuary in a Church compound. The group, thrown together by the terrible chaos of war, risks...
- 4/19/2011
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
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