15h15

(Shorts film Competition)
Protect Me from What I Want, by Dominic Leclerc (United Kingdom, 2008, 14’)

Daz is looking for love. Saleem is looking for sex. Cruising at an underground archway, these two worlds collide. Back at Daz’ bed-sit, Saleem embarks on a dangerous, thrilling sexual adventure. Both characters’ disparate worlds overlap and collide to tell a tale of loneliness and longing in a city late at night.

(Feature Film Panorama)
Shank, by Simon Pearce (United Kingdom, 2009, 89’)

Worlds collide as the lives of Cal and Olivier intersect in Shank, a gritty coming of age/ rites of passage drama. Cal, an 18 year old Scally lad and gang member has nothing in his life except drugs, sex, random acts of
violence and a secret that he keeps hidden from his mates. An online hook up for sex with a stranger, Scott (36), temporarily satisfies but fails to dampen his unspoken desires for his best mate, Jonno. Nessa, their
twisted, foul-mouthed and controlling, de facto gang leader, suspects that there is something going on between them. For no good reason an innocent student, Olivier (19), falls victim to one of her plans and is mugged on her orders by the gang. Cal steps in to restrain them and creates a distraction allowing Olivier to run free. Ignoring Nessa’s screams of contempt, he chases after him and offers him a lift by way of an apology. Fearing that the fall-out from Nessa for his actions will be harsh, Cal persuades Olivier to help him out. Seizing the moral high ground and sensing that there was something more to Cal’s good samaritan act, Olivier allows Cal to stay with him for a few days. Acting on his own attraction to Cal, Olivier seduces him and in doing so, exposes Cal to new
emotions and a tenderness that he has never experienced before. Nessa can’t contain her rage for Cal’s disloyalty to the gang and sets about hunting him down, intent on destroying him once and for all.

17h15

(Queer Pop)
Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band, by Michael Carmona (USA, 2008, 83’)

Long before musicians had the confidence to come out of the closet, Pansy Division was performing coast-to-coast with their own brand of queer rock-and-roll. Undeniably one of the most important and influential gay music acts in the last twenty years, Pansy Division pioneered the Queercore phenomenon. All this was done without the support of any major record label and absolutely no radio airplay. From their first days as an underground act in San Francisco to a full-fledged stadium tour with Green Day, founding members Jon Ginoli and Chris Freeman overcome increasingly difficult and hostile line-up changes, prejudice, and near-poverty to keep the band together and create music that truly made a difference. The documentary also examines difficult issues that faced the gay world in the 90’s, including AIDS, ACT UP, and the personal journey one goes through simply being gay. Featuring interviews and appearances by Lookout Records founder Larry Livermore, Jessie Luscious
(The Criminals), Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys), Rob Halford (Judas Priest), and Billie Joe of Green Day, Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band provides an essential history of a niche of alternative music that is only now beginning to be appreciated.

19h15

(Shorts film Competition)
So-nyeon, So-nyeonul Man-na-dan | Boy Meets Boy, by Kim-Jho Gwang-soo (South Corea, 2008, 13’)

On a warm spring day, Min-soo, a small boy, meets tall and broad shouldered Seok inside a bus. Min-soo keeps looking at the tough boy whose sharp eyes are hidden under his baseball cap. Minsoo’s heart starts beating. What will happen to Min-soo and Seok?

(Queer Art)
Boriven Nee Yu Pai Tai Karn Kuk Kun | This Area is under Quarantine,
by Thunska Pansittivorakul (Thailand, 2009, 80’)

In these past few years, there has been a growing unrest in Thailand. For me, the root of our problem, which has never been revised, is ‘Thainess’. We are taught to believe that Thai people should have good morals since ours’ is a Buddhist country. This makes our Ministry of Culture spend most of its time working on media
censorship. Hatred towards the Muslim occurs in some people’s heart but they have to hide their true feelings under a ‘Thai smile’. My film is still in the same style as I did before. It was made to observe a small life in Bangkok, the city of conflicts, the town that we’re trying to pretend is civilized. This film will lead you to be
trapped in a small hotel room in the middle of Bangkok (the building is now demolished and the hotel has moved), in order to listen to an opinion on the development of the metropolis which is called in Thai “Krung Thep” or “City of Angels”. Note: This documentary was shot in Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s government period and was edited when Thaksin was ousted from power. (Thunska Pansittivorakul)

(Queer Art)
Watch Out, by Steve Balderson (USA, 2008, 90’)

Watch Out is the story of Jonathan Barrows, a man who falls in love with himself, literally. He is attracted to his own body, carries out an erotic relationship with a blow-up doll that resembles him, and takes pleasure in
rejecting the advances of his many admirers. He descends into a world of carnivorous priests and Prozac-popping Polish prostitutes and eventually assassinates the world’s most popular pop-diva. “You strange creatures,” Barrows declares, “you are nothing more to Me than a meal at the fast-food restaurant of life.” But who will end up being devoured? Filmed in an eye-popping style that will shock the most jaded of viewers, Watch Out is based on the best-selling novel by Dr. Joseph Suglia and is destined to become a cult classic.