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Our Story: 10 Years Guerrilla Warfare of Beijing Queer Film Festival

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.

Our Story: 10 Years Guerrilla Warfare of Beijing Queer Film Festival

NR 2012
An Ill-Fitting Coat

A family memory connects three generations of women, all of whom, in one way or another, have had to deal with separations in their lives. Laotaitai’s husband died in the foreign land, leaving her a coat with his property. She never remarries ever since. In the local folklore,a woman is imprisoned and her grievance becomes the clouds in the mountains. This film mixes non-fiction and fiction storytelling through visualizing ancient Chinese poetry and cultural symbols and a voiceover transcending time and space to express the grief of parting.

An Ill-Fitting Coat

NR 2017
Sending Meal

The Education Department has decided to end the practice of the local teacher being cooked meals in rotation by the villagers as a mark of respect, and sends a cook Chu Zhenghe to do the job. At the same time a younger, university-educated teacher Han arrives to replace the middle-aged Zhang who’s been in the job for 30 years. Chu is happy to return to his native village so he can finally marry childhood sweetheart Qing who’s now a widow; but the locals are not happy at this break in an age-old custom. Some of the schoolkids led by Guang and Yue decide to sabotage his job.

Sending Meal

NR 2012
Myanmar Bride

Mangshi, Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, on the southwestern border of China, is home to many women who married into China from Myanmar. Are they really being sold, cheating on marriage, drug trafficking, and as the media reported? In 2015, Shudan Huang went deep into Dai stronghold, together with three Burmese women: Azhen Ma, Mayong, and Han’Ai Lang, lived and worked together with them for more than three months, using the life fragments of the three protagonists to show the stories of Burmese women of different ages and backgrounds, In this process of filming and researching, the brilliance of human nature are explored and displayed.

Myanmar Bride

NR 2016
Ancient Town Affection

Ancient Town Love describes a love story that takes place in a city in the Pearl River Delta and is triggered by the existence or disappearance of the ancestral house. The film is about a young overseas Chinese returning to his hometown after more than 20 years away, involving the love-hate entanglement between him and the three heroines, which is either lingering or helpless. Yi Nengjing plays the female gardener Ye Bei, and will stage a complicated "husband-grabbing battle" with the other two girls.

Ancient Town Affection

NR 2010