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𝗟𝗚𝗕𝗧𝗤𝗜𝗔+ 𝗠𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗲 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 at the Dutch Embassy 22 February 2024, Bangkok

𝗟𝗚𝗕𝗧𝗤𝗜𝗔+ 𝗠𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗲 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 Come join us for the 6th edition of our annual LGBTQIA+ movie night in the Embassy garden! The Netherlands Embassy, in collaboration with Document Our History Now, supports LGBTQIA+ story-telling in South-East Asia by screening films from Thailand and The Netherlands. During the evening we will be showing five short titles: DAD (TH), Lola vs. Ed (NL), RequiredReading (NL), Summertime (TH), and The Secret (TH). Food, drinks READ MORE

NEWS Lotus Sports Club was programmed at Film Festivals in Phnom Penh (June 2022); Hong Kong (September 2022); Oslo, Norway (September 2022); New York and Seattle, USA (both October 2022). We expect screenings at: Tel Aviv, Israel:  LGBTQ+ Film Festival on 27 October and 3 November 2022 Other Film Festivals will follow soon READ MORE

Lotus Sports Club is heading to Hong Kong!

Lotus Sports Club has been selected for the Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, the longest running LGBTQ+ film festival in Asia. This year edition, the 33rd, takes place from the 17th September to the 1st of October 2022. Lotus Sports Club will be presented in the special Gay Games section of the festival and there will be two screenings: on 25 / 9 / 2022 (Sun) 18:20 at Broadway Cinematheque and on 30 READ MORE

Back on track

After two years of covid interruption, we did organise two LGBTIQ+ Documentary events in January (Siem Reap, Cambodia) and March (Bangkok, Thailand) 2022.   READ MORE

‘Love and Other Matters’ is now part of Myanmar’s national cultural heritage

In 2015, together with the Yangon Film School and Colors Rainbow, we produced Love and Other Matters (Directed by Su Su Hlaing). This highly appreciated and often screened documentary introduces seven very different LGBTI+ people living in Myanmar. It is a warm and humorous documentary about that most human aspect we all share: the desire to love and be loved and accepted. The Yangon Film School has just celebrated its READ MORE

Great Photography from Cambodia

The photography production Diversity in family live in rural Cambodia  (a project developed together with Sa Sa Arts project’s photographer Prum Ero and RoCK) can now be seen on our website: click here. Many thanks to the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the EU-mission and U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh for their support. READ MORE

A great article about the Lotus Sports Club team on Southeast Asia Globe

The players and coach of the Lotus Sports Club team are interviewed, resulting in a great article about this remarkable team and about the situation of LGBTI in Cambodia. Southeast Asia Globe reaches a big audience. For the article: click here. READ MORE

Third LGBTI Documentary Night at the Dutch embassy in Bangkok, 14 February 2020.

Third LGBTI Documentary Night at the Dutch embassy in Bangkok, 14 February 2020. In co-production with the Dutch Embassy we organised a great 3rd LGBTI documentary event and we had a full house (the gardens) with 250 guests on Valentines day 2020. We got very positive reactions about the program and the speakers Tanwarin Sukkhapisit (Thailand’s first transgender Member of the Parliament end film producer) and Sanchai Chotirosseranee (Depity Director READ MORE

Save the date: LGBTIQ+ Documentary events in Phnom Penh, 10 and 11 December

We were in Phnom Penh to organise LGBTIQ+ documentary events, which will take place on 10 and 11 December 2019 in the evening at Java Creative Café. We will screen various short documentaries from Southeast Asia and The Netherlands. The events are offered by the Kingdom of the Netherlands and Document Our History Now, in close cooperation of RoCK Cambodia and Java Creative Café.        The 10th and 11th of December will have the same READ MORE

Update Lotus Sports Club

The Kickstarter crowdfunding for Lotus Sports Club was successful. To all who contributed: many thanks again !! We have now a budget to start the post production phase and to produce a ‘rough cut’ of the documentary. We are still looking for extra funds to make it to a ‘final cut’. If you have any tips or contacts for us in this regards, please let us know. For more information and the inspiring trailer READ MORE