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Free entry with Cinematheque membership
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Three fascinating films that bring unusual stories from all corners of the world.
A visit to Italy and a meeting with a colorful and unique community. The surprising story of South Korea’s erotic film theatres and a meeting with a multisexual nudist community.
Duration: 100 minutes
Every February 2nd, the day of Candlemas, the LGBT community of Naples and nearby cities makes a pilgrimage to the Montevergine Abbey, to pay their respects to the Virgin Mary, locally called Mamma Schiavona (The Slave Mother). In the chapel where her icon resides, the femminielli, neither male nor female, are led by the songs of the performer and shaman, Marcello Colasurdo.
Director: Minki Hong
Script: Minki Hong
Producer: Todd A Henry
With: Six anonymous gay men
South Korea, 30 minutes, 2023, Korean with English subtitles
Festivals:
Wicked Queer: The Boston LGBT Film Festival 2023
Korea Queer Film Festival 2023
Jeonju International Film Festival, Jeonju, 2023
San Diego Asian Film Festival
“Paradise” revisits South Korea’s era of authoritarian development (1970s-1980s) through the lens of queer livelihood. Despite the harsh realities of successive dictatorships, compulsory military service, and expectations of marriage and children, six elderly gay men reveal how they converted second-run theaters and nearby bars into popular sites of erotic liberation, same-sex friendships, and romantic encounters. Using rare footage of Seoul’s only extant second-run movie house, visual archives, and historical animation, “Paradise” documents South Korea’s vibrant gay underground before the solidification of democracy and the introduction of the internet in the 1990s. Along the way, it follows the pain and joy of queer citizens, whose stories appear for the first time in this empowering film of self-discovery and community building
Director: Jérôme Clément-Wilz
Producer: François-Pierre Clavel
France, 34 minutes, 2022, French with English subtitles
In a house lost in the middle of the woods, on the edge of a lake, a group invents an ephemeral Eden. Between simple life moments and cathartic rites, they grow together, doing rituals.
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