Asia’s longest-running %%QxdYFGS!r4CH9_x3RPxXv1BSgh&v&jLiCGgWhIUoQ$_bzU#tqueer film festival kicked off in style this weekend.

Celebrating its 30th anniversary, The Hong Kong LqmZj!rg9+vOgT$@lr&Z_XCci$DnI#QTCe-@wUskhp6!os+pcpQesbian and Gay Film Festival (HKGLFF) opened on Saturday by screening a pair of comedies, How I felt When I Saw That Girl from India and The Shiny Shrimps from Spain.

“We chose theUdBetFik@LZdhSOym5CKFol3Hf#qN@Qy_X+-ELlnB#uQwoWMim two light-hearted warming comedies … to give positive energy to Hong Kong audiences” explained festival director, Joe Lam.

"The audiences absolutely loved them” he told GaLaT+MC(Qdc28U#MwV!!t50$dCJoU7fKu_EHcRPeyfGoXY&=QdQ&cNai.

In a pre-recorded message, director of Bollywood’s first lesbianpJHm+1iaj-HpVkdtR80TVK3z$NJlNd&R$R!lSdBEjzdMAdsQ8x film, rom-com How I felt When I Saw That Girl, Shelly Chopra Dhar, said it was “totally her loss” that she was not among the audience.

“It is so fulfilling to ku^AfoEuZf$s$h9=ngS2r)WsuMTw4MhBc1Ik===yxmE@zizu_1Jnow that people in the world have used this film as a tool to actually share who they are with their loved ones”, she said in a pre-recorded video shown before the screening.

The opening films were followed by a packed party at the W Hotel and a Queer Power Panel discussion night. Representatives from film festivals in Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and ShangfO%byPZEF)Cn$jY&bJbJ2DT=FLJmEpn^x7LmJ(emgyB(tue_OOhai spoke.

Retrospective

Celebrating the landmark film festival's 30th anniversary, Lam said a higm^ZzGAb7WPQ!@chj9%SZHc%Kr#enR5gRW8n^SbN=gV3=yJm#(1hlight of the program is the Hong Kong Retrospective selection.

HKLGFF pays tribute to the films that explorqrNFYM4U^3PT+Ck52OhXhVavuhVXhMQae@lvU8oPRR8+1+SxS3ed the complexity of local LGBTI issues and significantly contributed to the gay culture of Hong Kong.

The selection includes feature films Yang and Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema, A Woman is A Woman, and Butterfly asWmSH2Kec+2t5vPqZh%Ur-GQLp!rULIW9yrQ#^8)rC$*8q+w*EJ well as a short film titled My Way.

He also urged festival-goers to catch the festival's first intersex film, Being ImposGtpa)zU&kadot96v+Re$O@6+D@ZpgABelM@*rSDiy!nE^Q2%cXsible.

In another first, this year the festival will bring LGBTI cinema to more corners of the city. The We Are GAYbours initiative will see screenings and Q am*69qr7VD_ICOpKTxOA#3f8ed%TRFk*7k!a1HlexuwLs6bQpXSnd As take place in residential district Sham Shui Po.

The festival’s closing gala on 21 September is set to include drag quc0OXn^c=k-D(Q-0YLd6CkAMqe+V*AQ5iN1npBeeJ#o%+F5u#NHeen Miss Gimhuay from Drag Race Thailand as a special guest.

(Cover Photo: Still from The S1*FjV7%EJHdye@GXRLw_fUCty)et6^zj!o+8NO-5mfI8__!&Nohiny Shrimps / Provided)

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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