Viewer's Guide: "The Uninhabitable Ones" contains flashing lights.
Here is a 90-minute collection of queer shorts from around the world.
MY FAMILY: In this Southeast Asian dark dramedy, a young man is bleeding out slowly in the bathroom. Oblivious to his latest suicide attempt, his bickering family members line up for their turn outside. This is clearly an excellent time for his parents to begin openly questioning his sexuality.
MY OWN: My Own tells the story of Bianca, a nonbinary person, struggling to find the place for gender fluidity within the rigid world of ballet. Bianca finds their own voice, in this dance-filled rumination on coming out, not as one thing or another, but as something in between.
THINE OWN SELF: Through animated visuals in combination with music, this experimental short film represents a resistance to hegemonic constructions of gender, expressing a desire for collective liberation from restrictive classifications that govern identity.
STORIES UNDER THE RAINBOW: Stories Under The Rainbow will explore questions through the lives of LGBTQ individuals living in small towns in Mississippi that is often hilarious and heartbreaking.
HUGO: 6:30PM: Hugo, a young actor is asked to improvise narrating a story where he’s the actor and director at an audition. He unfolds a tale that explores sex, disease and self-emancipation.
COMPOSITIONS FOR UNDERSTANDING RELATIONSHIPS: Compositions is an experimental, animated "love letter".
LIMINAL: Steve lives both his past and present concurrently. As time is compressed and he flows through spirals of love and sexuality, Steve finds himself in a transition; stuck between a family life built on half measures and a desire for a more authentic experience.
THE UNINHABITABLE ONES: A Brazilian contemporary dance company is about to debut The Uninhabitable Ones (Inabitáveis), its newest performance that addresses black homosexuality as its theme. Running parallel to the rehearsals, the choreographer builds a friendship with Pedro, a black boy who doesn't identify as a boy. A poetic wildness of transgressive queers, of impressionist colors, of bodies that celebrate their black and latinx existences.
In this Southeast Asian dark dramedy, a young man is bleeding out slowly in the bathroom. Oblivious to his latest suicide attempt, his bickering family members line up for their turn outside. This is clearly an excellent time for his parents to begin openly questioning his sexuality.
In Chinese and English with English subtitles.
Viewer's Guide: Violence and suicide.
OFFICIAL SELECTION!
Deep Cut Film Festival
Toronto Queer Film Festival
Roze Filmdagen; Amsterdam LGBTQ Film Festival
Out & Loud - Pune International Queer Film Festival
Director Biography - Yan Qiu Foong
Yan Qiu is a filmmaker and aspiring musician based in Singapore. He works mostly as a freelance lighting grip on local commercials, corporate videos and TV productions, and is also a part-time busker. His dream is to one day play a beautiful concert, with Peter Gabriel’s ‘Secret World’ as inspiration.
Director Statement
It was years ago, I remember, when my brother came out to me. He held my hand as he poured his pain and suffering onto me; I couldn’t understand so I listened. Here was a man who was embarrassed and frightful at every turn. Here was a man who was confused and conflicted at his own identity. Hence, he built up walls around himself. My brother was extremely hurt when mother tried to reassure him that his sexual preference for men was just a temporary phase. Here was a mother who loves her son deeply; she tried to help, but only created greater conflict and alienation. Coincidentally, it was also my mother who had told me a quirky story of a feuding, dysfunctional family of four (my relatives, actually) who managed to put their differences aside for a brief moment, banding together and facing an unwanted intruder. In unity, they were not a force to be trifled with. In a deeper sense, ’Family’, to me, is an unconditional inclusiveness to all around us, beyond individual differences. I was about to leave for London at the time, and was thinking that, ‘if all goes well I’m never coming back to Singapore’, so I wanted to make a local film for my brother, with whom I shared a troubled past. I wanted to tell him that I love him.
- Year2020
- Runtime7 minutes
- LanguageEnglish, Chinese
- CountrySingapore
- DirectorYan Qiu Foong
- ScreenwriterYan Qiu Foong
- ProducerMatthew Yang & Pamela Tan & Chen Sing Yap
- CastWilson Ng, Candice Goh, Charlie Goh, Jocelyn Tedja
- CinematographerMatthew Yang
- EditorChen Sing Yap
- ComposerJonathan Lim
Viewer's Guide: "The Uninhabitable Ones" contains flashing lights.
Here is a 90-minute collection of queer shorts from around the world.
MY FAMILY: In this Southeast Asian dark dramedy, a young man is bleeding out slowly in the bathroom. Oblivious to his latest suicide attempt, his bickering family members line up for their turn outside. This is clearly an excellent time for his parents to begin openly questioning his sexuality.
MY OWN: My Own tells the story of Bianca, a nonbinary person, struggling to find the place for gender fluidity within the rigid world of ballet. Bianca finds their own voice, in this dance-filled rumination on coming out, not as one thing or another, but as something in between.
THINE OWN SELF: Through animated visuals in combination with music, this experimental short film represents a resistance to hegemonic constructions of gender, expressing a desire for collective liberation from restrictive classifications that govern identity.
STORIES UNDER THE RAINBOW: Stories Under The Rainbow will explore questions through the lives of LGBTQ individuals living in small towns in Mississippi that is often hilarious and heartbreaking.
HUGO: 6:30PM: Hugo, a young actor is asked to improvise narrating a story where he’s the actor and director at an audition. He unfolds a tale that explores sex, disease and self-emancipation.
COMPOSITIONS FOR UNDERSTANDING RELATIONSHIPS: Compositions is an experimental, animated "love letter".
LIMINAL: Steve lives both his past and present concurrently. As time is compressed and he flows through spirals of love and sexuality, Steve finds himself in a transition; stuck between a family life built on half measures and a desire for a more authentic experience.
THE UNINHABITABLE ONES: A Brazilian contemporary dance company is about to debut The Uninhabitable Ones (Inabitáveis), its newest performance that addresses black homosexuality as its theme. Running parallel to the rehearsals, the choreographer builds a friendship with Pedro, a black boy who doesn't identify as a boy. A poetic wildness of transgressive queers, of impressionist colors, of bodies that celebrate their black and latinx existences.
In this Southeast Asian dark dramedy, a young man is bleeding out slowly in the bathroom. Oblivious to his latest suicide attempt, his bickering family members line up for their turn outside. This is clearly an excellent time for his parents to begin openly questioning his sexuality.
In Chinese and English with English subtitles.
Viewer's Guide: Violence and suicide.
OFFICIAL SELECTION!
Deep Cut Film Festival
Toronto Queer Film Festival
Roze Filmdagen; Amsterdam LGBTQ Film Festival
Out & Loud - Pune International Queer Film Festival
Director Biography - Yan Qiu Foong
Yan Qiu is a filmmaker and aspiring musician based in Singapore. He works mostly as a freelance lighting grip on local commercials, corporate videos and TV productions, and is also a part-time busker. His dream is to one day play a beautiful concert, with Peter Gabriel’s ‘Secret World’ as inspiration.
Director Statement
It was years ago, I remember, when my brother came out to me. He held my hand as he poured his pain and suffering onto me; I couldn’t understand so I listened. Here was a man who was embarrassed and frightful at every turn. Here was a man who was confused and conflicted at his own identity. Hence, he built up walls around himself. My brother was extremely hurt when mother tried to reassure him that his sexual preference for men was just a temporary phase. Here was a mother who loves her son deeply; she tried to help, but only created greater conflict and alienation. Coincidentally, it was also my mother who had told me a quirky story of a feuding, dysfunctional family of four (my relatives, actually) who managed to put their differences aside for a brief moment, banding together and facing an unwanted intruder. In unity, they were not a force to be trifled with. In a deeper sense, ’Family’, to me, is an unconditional inclusiveness to all around us, beyond individual differences. I was about to leave for London at the time, and was thinking that, ‘if all goes well I’m never coming back to Singapore’, so I wanted to make a local film for my brother, with whom I shared a troubled past. I wanted to tell him that I love him.
- Year2020
- Runtime7 minutes
- LanguageEnglish, Chinese
- CountrySingapore
- DirectorYan Qiu Foong
- ScreenwriterYan Qiu Foong
- ProducerMatthew Yang & Pamela Tan & Chen Sing Yap
- CastWilson Ng, Candice Goh, Charlie Goh, Jocelyn Tedja
- CinematographerMatthew Yang
- EditorChen Sing Yap
- ComposerJonathan Lim