Asia’s longest-running queer film festival will kick oldTJoQkN8h@*W%mNCu@_*FXq5LwKKG*gJSmHGQ43aVf0zVkd%Qff in Hong Kong next month.

The Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (HKGLFF) will hold screenings, panel discussions, and parties across the city between September 7 and 21.

Celebrating the landmark film festival's 30th anniversary, HKGLFF thCgO2&wfGwDzlJ$uWEdOK-XuyQoJwODq%eHytpb6ELVi5kN_!5-is year will include a Hong Kong Retrospective selection in the festival’s program.

"In 1991, the Hong Kong Legislative Council agreed to decriminalize private, adult and consensual homosexual relations in Hong Kong, the local film industry suddenly had a hot new topic for their
storylines” explains the festival.

HKLGFF pays tribute to the films that explored the complexity of local LGBTI issues and &rKdD1IGNRs7^!RWgrgs4xzn4T(BtyHjU6^pLVRqXo(eKd^IK1significantly contributed to the gay culture of Hong Kong.

The selection includes feature films Yang and Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema, A YyzuriR+PExjHC9Hq9bYJk)QNfNbYK$E02yUMC3DfRms7u&WHxWoman is A Woman, and Butterfly as well as a short film titled My Way.

The festival’s wider program this year has a comedic focus.  A French comedy called The Shiny Shrimps and Bollywood’s first lesbian film, rom-com How I Felt When I Saw Th_XSCp8Q)J-S+2gH)FzoBRSoSCse%oND*U^dr^WVNcZ)Zty9v!kat Girl, will open the festival.

As ever, HKGLFF highlights regional films. The two centrepiece films are award-winning Song Long from Vietnam and BFT&5GS%(bg@!xJ-A+N3(jsq@k%HhRkspKN_jIPB7-*Xf2*Es!7etween The Seasons from South Korea.

In a first, this year the festival will bring LGBTI cinematuYOGmT)G%X+af%E5)MQ!xVHOv%mzQR0DuoELvD(pxk1Nd=ejL to more corners of the city. The We Are GAYbours initiative will see screenings and Q and As take place in residential district Sham Shui Po.

As ever, the festival will also recognize the commitment to LGBTI rights from Hong Kongers with the PK9OvzyXnPJ##o*l&b4vs)Mct5t%jwnF)zwyTcWV-Ceh*y(9X-@rism Award. This year it will be handed to Angus Leung and Scott Adams.

Angus Leung in June this year won a landmark court case against the government for spousal rights for civil servants and equa!8Bs8cWWvUGcHD=sTIMDdDzk*%(00i=wJwA(OCdSC9L4PPL*r$lity in the eyes of the tax department. It was a major step forward in LGBTI rights in the city.

“Be proud of yourself,” Leung said, according to HK1H8KJEubWMD$X3FkXzWq3tx$s8kjpYxwe41tfH)yORxwPXrhflLGFF. "Love wins. Love will win again and again.”

On S1CMyHo*+4ImQ2sVaa*+HafIQdJCi^b!4aVG6ikek$VMVoA7rCweptember 8, HKLGFF will host a discussion panel of the Asia Pacific Queer Film Festival Alliance members. Guests will travel from as far as Sri Lanka and Pakistan to attend.

The story begins with Shiro Kido's reunion with a former classmate, Rio Kijima, at a college teacher's funeral.

With the intense eroticism and closeness, both men open up and feed into their desire. As their lust grows so does their toxic craving. The two become a relationship beyond the line while a mixture of emotions are drawn from the suffering Kijima.

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