Festival Highlights • March 30
Speechless
Dir: Simon Chung
20:50 STUDIO • Hong-Kong-China: 92 min • Heart Production • 2012
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This thriller is a riveting insight into gay life in today’s China. A young man is found by the river, and through the aid of a hospital orderly remembers the traumatic events that led him there. It is suprising and unpredictable.
Fragments: The Incomplete Films of Peter de Rome
Dir: Ethan Reid
18:20 NFT2 • UK: 42 min • Pathetique Films • 2012
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In the 1960s, the legendary pioneer of gay porn, Peter de Rome, created erotica that was inspired by the surrealism of Cocteau as wll as classic Hollywood cinema. This is a rare chance to see unfinished films from that time. The screening is followed by an event in The Blue Room in assocation with Little Joe magazine. Peter de Rome will also be in attendance