ShanghaiPRIDE Film Festival – Day 1: Gender Features

June 18th
Theme: Gender Features
For more details, please see the full Festival Program at shpride.com/films

Girl or Boy, My Sex is not My Gender (2011 France)
Director: Valérie Mitteaux
Being born a woman, feeling like a man, and deciding to cross the boundary between the genders. Lynnee, Kaleb, Rocco and Miguel are four transboys in San Francisco, Paris and Barcelona. They embody and explore the fluidity of gender and challenge the logic of gender binary, and seek to find new ways to rebalance the relationship between man and woman.

Time: 12:00PM
Address: Happiness42, 42 Xingfu Rd., nr. Fahuazhen Rd., Changning

MAJOR! (2015 USA)
Director: Annalise Ophelian
MAJOR! tells the life story of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a formerly incarcerated Black transgender elder who has been fighting for the rights of trans women of color for over 40 years. A veteran of Stonewall and Attica, Miss Major is an activist unlike any other. She is a mother, a father and a grandmother to all trans people. At the heart of MAJOR! is a social justice framework that puts the subjects at the center and trans women of color who have survived police brutality and incarceration in men’s jails and prisons. Truly inspiring.

Short Films

Convertis Phantasmatique (2011 USA)
Director: Crissìan Chen & Diane Hugé,
An avant-garde exploration of the intersection of projected desire and identity between two roommates in a dream.

The Right Bank (2016 USA)
Director: Yvonne Li
A young Chinese lesbian must overcome her fear of rejection and come out to her conservative mother in order to save the relationship with her American girlfriend.

Chengdu LGBT Story (2016 China)
Director: Matthew Huang
A story about Chengdu LGBT people and love.

Fashion (2016 Malaysia)
Director: Loong Wah
A hostess welcomes guests to the Midnight Express Discotheque, where a cabaret is about to unfold.

Gay Cats (2011 China)
Director: Xiaopei He
The two gay cats explain their understanding of homosexuality after hearing that homosexuality is against Christianity.

Time: 5:00PM
Address: Project Wine, 17-1 N. Xiangyang Rd., nr. Julu Rd., Xuhui

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