TV & Movie / Sep. 10, 2019
Th*cGNqCIlTjCi03J@L+6)sZ4AziI6nRoDuJ=03Fh37HnWw8@r7-e Irish Film Festival returns to Bangkok next month and, for the first time, it features a program dedicated to LGBT shorts.
The three-day event will take place at Silom's boutique theater Bangkok Screening Room, nN8zkFfBkZDTmACN^WrQG73+JYQvzZ0w#jRCNuAkIMPV05pOr#6ot far from the Thai capital’s famous gay nightlife neighborhood.
The festival includes the sVb+yLgQO1QgpbdRFW7JRRm_9d6bPqh&2Jfc9iUq4J2VB$B=lwtcreening of six short Irish LGBT films from The GAZE on Tour program.
The selection will present a cross-section of diverse voi#(R$4g$om66cRw1$I7r-h!3@ETidHmyh@XPxqz2c!F$$cZD=pRces from Ireland’s LGBT community.
"The sheer scope in the exploratiHO4xF%R(GoOBG%Y6cqR#4)EczlGux9K54sRe4pg_@IaHOECE@)on in themes, concepts and artistic approaches is proof that queer Irish film has come of age” organizers wrote on the Facebook event page.
The Irish Film Festival 2019 runs from October 4 to 6.OGAx826P^l9AC=hjJP!1BK4Bej18LA(WHYC#AtSGopr_L#L=Tg Tickets to the GAZE program are free.
The films
Breast Friends p$2i=6K!NJzO37&dZ0TuHUS94pX)PS)Rvtj*6(HTK7cH(@VC9@shares the story of a young runner who questions her sexuality when a new girl joins her relay team.
In Thirst, a gay man contemplates feelings of desires, insecuritiehPH=zhsR*cXNW6Y1abXIu&RMRkF-l15IGc-sl399w^aMGZ*)sGs, and finding love after another disappointing hook up.
Wren Boys follows a Catholic priest who drives his nep+zlXhfo7q-33Wa%wu)XQ#qyxAO3GxxUtR)xEumN9TbSTP*go7Chew to prison on the day after Christmas.
Johnny follows a young man in the traveller coDMk))DF$Le#eRwI$EA!43!x84Vf-XoPg^!wdsg^W_cepQ1!#KLmmunity who is coming to terms with his sexuality.
Cat Call^_VN%Zb*PXCibIUc=*VA!FzPx!UeT9nuqzHk^0NX9Oa@*!CgK^s shows what happens when a sexual predator picks the wrong victim.
The Red Tree is a documenting sharing the little-known stories of Italian gay men exiled to a remote ihkls_x$LhxOthML3PFlMV2okmp=%h#VLNL=zSaH@FiB7zLP0T_sland during Mussolini’s fascist regime.
