We had a great screening afternoon
We had a great LGBT documentary afternoon with almost 125 guests on 8 November . We showed Love and Other Matters (Myanmar) and Our Marriages (China). Thanks to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, IHLIA, Dennis Boutkan (Upstream consulting), KopArt, volunteers and our guest from China: documentary maker XiaoPei He. To see some video impressions, click below: Opening by Dennis Boutkan The impact of DOHN productions (Dennis Boutkan interviews Robert Witlox) READ MORE
Now online: The full-length short documentary Open, by Khin Zarchi Latt (Myanmar)
Documentary Open (clik here) tells the story of Ko Latt, a young Myanmar artist who won the chance to study abroad with a scholarship. While living in Zurich, Switzerland, he fell in love. Surprisingly – and for the first time – this was with another man. Open explores cultural differences between Myanmar and the West when it comes to love and sexuality, and it explores what it means for a READ MORE
Now online: The full-length documentary Karma? by Vanna Hem (Cambodia)
The documentary film Karma? (click here) is about the lives of two lady-boy sex workers in Phnom Penh, Pao and Srey Leak, who face sexual violence and ignorance from the society they live in. Pao and Srey Leak become sisters, living together and taking care of each other after their families had kicked them out. An intense, observational documentary, Karma? depicts the hard life that HIV-positive transgender sex workers live READ MORE