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Considered as the first of its category and still being held event, Beijing Queer Film Festival is the only community-based non-governmental film festival with a special focus on gender and sexuality in China. As LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) issues remain politically sensitive, in addition to China’s strict media censorship, the film festival has encountered enormous difficulties in its development. During the past ten years, the festival venue has shifted from the western suburb of the city to the eastern suburb of the city, and from the city to the countryside. In 2011 it went back to the city and took the strategies of the ‘guerilla warfare’ because of government intervention and censorship. Based on the footages recorded and collected by each year’s organization committee, the film interviewed the committee members and let them tell the stories of the festival and of themselves.

Short film by Kayako Oki.

Single 8 film by Kayako Oki.

Super 8 film by Masaharu Oki.

Myths and strange facts about water.

La Otxoa, anti-Franco queer Symbol, voice of the working-class areas of Bilbao, invites us to his dressing room to evoke his choices.

A teenager exacts his revenge on the bully responsible for making his life a living hell.

Based on a how-to corporate guide from SCHWA, the alien company that rules the Earth and all of us "stick people," the video highlights the methods this off-world conspiracy employs EVERY DAY to keep us as obedient servants of the Corporate Alien Overlords.

The camera follows Stuart, Brian and James as they go about their daily lives, revealing their individual journeys from childhood to manhood - trials and triumphs from the rugby pitch to the stage, Bondi Beach to the 'Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras'. This is a story of men chasing their dreams, men not afraid to do things their way, men refusing to be stereotyped by their sexuality. The Sydney Convicts Rugby Union is as tough as any other Australian team; the only difference is it’s an all-gay male squad. In just 45-minutes, you get an incredibly intimate insight into the players’ lives—and a brilliant look around many parts of Sydney. In very flattering shorts, players carb-up before practice, seriously work out in the gym, box, run sprints up and down stairs and at the beach, strategize about the game with each other, cross-train, do major ab work and the pre-game “squeeze”. Interviews with team members are surprisingly candid, well thought out and engaging.

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The film is the investigation that the director leads on his little pink plastic pony, received on his 6th birthday. He goes in search of the slightest clue to try to find out if this little pony, which he had nicknamed Peach, was really meant for him. Through his encounters, he discovers the codes and stereotypes in force in the world of toys and evokes, beyond the clichés with which he was associated, what Peach really represented for him. Peach was not a simple figurine to be styled. He had become a real confidant to whom he confided his budding desires for boys and his growing questions about the norm of love.

Montage from Tiantan, Beijing.

Directed by Anne Vieux

A very unique artist who specializes in paper mache art, Armenian artist Susanna Mkrtchyan is admired not only for her artistic talent but for the active role which she plays in the lives of people in her local community of Gyumri, a city which is located in Northwestern Armenia. A soft and gentle reflection upon a woman who has led a life dedicated to art and to others.

Directed by Lia

A slideshow of abandoned spaces carries along the story of two girls who mysteriously turn up on the shores of a pre-apocalyptic paradise. Factual texts drawn from the Madrid Peace Accords to the CIA World Factbook are weaved into a fictional narrative that unfolds the story of a massacre.

Bits features diverse short stories, some are meeting for the first time, others are rethinking their relationships. Filmed in four countries, in multiple different settings, Bits will have something for everyone.

One day, two cats come across a baby bird on the road. The cats decide to save the bird who has chosen a dangerous way to live.

A biography of Marlene Dietrich

Images of endlessly increasing cities, growing, constantly transforming, seeking the hidden meanings in momentary, fragmentary details.

Ditchwork uses intimate physicality, folk-tale themes, and lush imagery to imaginatively fill in the blanks of a family history that is, like every history, both deeply known and unfathomably mysterious.

そのとき takes inspiration from the work of Kon Wajiro, an architect, ethnologist and sociologist who created detailed sketches of everyday life on the streets of Tokyo in the 1920s. Shot in Aomori City, Japan in the depths of winter, そのとき captures individuals' recurring movements through the streets as they play out before a static camera.