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Moneyboys : a powerful queer Chinese story of love, survival and acceptance

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  Since  1996 when East Palace, West Palace was the first Mainland Chinese movie with an explicitly homosexual theme was released, there have been very few films to follow its lead.  Like with MONEYBOYS it is deemed too unsafe to make Chinese queer film actually in situ, so filmmakers such as Taiwan/Austrian C.B. Yi use … Continue reading



Monsoon: going back home will not always work out as you plan

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  Queer Cambodian/Chinese filmmaker Hong Khaou’s sophomore movie that draws heavily from his own past unfolds at the slowest of paces in a very similar style as his debut film Lilting.  This time the story is about a British/Vietnamese man going back to his birthplace for the first time since he was 6 years old … Continue reading





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