Opening of “Queer Forever! Festival 2015” at Goethe Insitut
Wed 09 Dec 2015, 4 – 9.30 pm
Goethe Institut
From Goethe Institut:
The Goethe-Institut is pleased to once again host the opening event of the “Queer Forever!” Festival, this year on 9 December 2015. The first part of the evening deals with the different approaches to the portrayal of homosexual men in Vietnamese film. The curator and film critic Trương Quế Chi will moderate the discussion.
Following the discussion, the award-winning movie “Adrift” (2009) by director Bùi Thạc Chuyên will be screened: The mesh of relations between two women and several men has been perceived as a lesbian movie by the press, an interpretation which both Bùi Thạc Chuyên as well as numerous members of the LGBT community have objected to. How can we interpret the film today, 6 years after the official premiere? Which examples of gender roles beyond the hetero-normative model can already be found in Vietnamese films, and which perspectives are still imaginable? This will be topic of the discussion round with Phan Đăng Di, scriptwriter of “Adrift”, following the movie screening.
Programme:
4 PM. – 5.30 PM.
Discussion: Urban spaces and homosexual male bodies in Vietnamese film by Nguyễn Quốc Thành
Moderation: Curator and film critic Trương Quế Chi
5.30 PM. – 6.30 PM.
Break
6.30 PM. – 9.30 PM.
Film screening: “Adrift” (Bùi Thạc Chuyên, 2009, 110 min.)
Q&A with Phan Đăng Di – Filmmaker and scriptwriter of “Adrift”
Moderation: Nguyễn Quốc Thành
“Adrift” (2009):
When the young woman Duyên (Đỗ Thị Hải Yến), a young woman, marries – but her best friend Cầm (Phạm Linh Đan) plots a secret plan: She sets Duyên up with the attractive Thọ (Johnny Trí Nguyễn). Set in Hanoi’s Old Quarter, the mesh of relations between Duyên, Cầm, Thọ and Duyên’s husband Hải (Nguyễn Duy Khoa) interweaves.
In the Venice Film Festival 2009, “Adrift” was awarded the renowned Fipresci-Award for young filmmakers.
Trailer:
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Free admission.
* Queer forever! is a festival for queer art in Vietnam. Between 9 December 2015 and 3 January 2016, a broad range of cultural events, including a creativity market, various workshops, discussion rounds and a Queer Disco are scheduled.
Event venues:
Goethe-Institut Hanoi, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc, Hanoi
Nhà Sàn Collective, 15th floor, Hanoi Creative City, 1 Luong Yen, Hanoi
Manzi Art Space, 14 Phan Huy Ich, Hanoi
CAMA ATK, 73A Mai Hac De, Hanoi
Queer Forever! Is organised by Queer Forever!, Nhà Sàn Collective, Goethe-Institut Hanoi, Nicole Martine Lewis, Trần Ngọc Hiếu, Hà nội Queer, Manzi Art Space and CAMA ATK, and is supported by Hanoi Creative City. Media partners are & Of Other Things and Hanoi Grapevine.
Take a look at our previous activities:
The first Queer Forever! Festival in Vietnam
OUTTAKES: Queer Asian Cinema
Queer Forever’s Short Film Program in September 2015
Talk “Stories of Queer”
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