[Reader-list] Films of Desire in Trivandrum

[Shilpa phadke]

Creating Resources for Empowerment in Action, 
	The South and Southeast Asia Resource Centre on Sexuality,
	The Kerala State Chalachitra Academy 
	&
	FFSI (SW Region)

INVITE YOU TO A SELECTION FROM  

Films of Desire: Sexuality and the Cinematic Imagination
IN Tiruvananthapuram
September 08, 2007
 

The Event
Films of Desire: Sexuality and the Cinematic Imagination, focuses on
Southeast Asian Cinema and will feature screenings of features, short films,
documentaries, and experimental films that engage with ideas of sexuality in
South and Southeast Asia. It is the travelling off-shoot of a  larger event
held in Neemrana, near Delhi, in March 2007.  

The Venue
Kala Bhavan Theatre
Vazhuthacad, Trivandrum

Timings
10 am - 9 pm 
 

The Film Schedule: 
First Session:  10 - 11 am
*	SEA IN THE BLOOD, Richard Fung, 26 minutes / English / 2000 /
Canada.
*	LOCUST, Victric Thng, 4 minutes/ Cantonese with English
subtitles/2003/Singapore
*	CUT, Royston Tan, 12 minutes/ Singaporean English/ 2004/ Singapore
*	THE LAST FULL SHOW, Mark V. Reyes, 18 minutes/ Tagalog with English
subtitles /2004/The Phillipines
	 
Second Session: 11:15 am - 1:25 pm
*	THE MATCHMAKER, Cinzia Puspita Rini, 10 minutes/ Indonesian with
English subtitles /2006/Indonesia
*	LOVE FOR SHARE, Nia Dinata, 120 minutes/ Bahasa Indonesia with
English subtitles/ 2006/ Indonesia.

Panel Discussion: 2.30 - 4.30 pm
Issues of Sexuality and Representation 

Third Session: 5 - 6:45 pm
*	BLOSSOMING OF MAXIMO OLIVEROS, Auraeus Solito, 100 minutes/ Tagalog
with English subtitles/ 2005/ Philippines

Final Session: 7 - 9 pm
*	BEAUTIFUL BOXER, Ekachai Uekrongtham
<http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0879960/> , 118 minutes / Thai with English
subtitles/ 2003/ Thailand

The Organizers and Partners 
*	Creating Resources for Empowerment in Action (CREA)
(www.creaworld.org <http://www.creaworld.org/> ) is a women's human rights
organization based in New Delhi. 
*	The South and Southeast Asia Resource Centre on Sexuality
(www.asiasrc.org) enhances scholarship on sexuality in the region and is
based at TARSHI in New Delhi.
Trivandrum Partners
*	The Kerala State Chalachitra Academy (http://www.keralafilm.com),
the only Academy for Motion Pictures in India works for the promotion of
Cinema as a cultural expression. 
*	FFSI (SW Region), one of the five regions of Federation of Film
Societies of India (FFSI), is the association of film societies in Keralam.
(http://www.ffsikeralam.org)


About the Films:
*	BEAUTIFUL BOXER, Ekachai Uekrongtham
<http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0879960/> , 118 minutes/ Thai with English
subtitles/ 2003/ Thailand
	Based on the real life story of Parinya Charoenphol, a Muaythai
boxer who underwent a sex change operation to become a woman. The movie
chronicles her life from a young boy who likes to wear lipstick and wear
flowers to her sensational career as kickboxer whose specialty is ancient
Muaythai boxing moves which she can execute expertly with grace and finally
her confrontation with her own sexuality which led to her sex change
operation. 

*	CUT, Royston Tan, 12 minutes/ Singaporean English/ 2004/ Singapore
	Royston Tan's Cut comes almost a year after his feature film 15
which was labeled by Singapore authorities 'threat to national security' and
released locally with 27 cuts. In true Singaporean fashion, Cut responds to
the issue of censorship with a heady blend of tongue-in-cheek humour and
music. 

*	LOCUST, Victric Thng, 4 minutes/ Cantonese with English subtitles/
2003/ Singapore
	A momentary encounter evokes both a sense of fondness and bitterness
of the heart. Moving and lyrical, the film's backdrop of Hong Kong heightens
the emotive narration.

*	LOVE FOR SHARE, Nia Dinata, 120 minutes/ Bahasa Indonesia with
English subtitles/ 2006/ Indonesia. 
	The film is an intriguing portrait of polygamous lifestyles in
contemporary Jakarta. A gynecologist Salma discovers, to her shock, that her
husband has taken a second wife. She tolerates successive wives as 'a good
Muslim wife' should, until an incident forces her to cater to everyone in
his circle. Siti, a country girl, realizes too late that her uncle, who has
moved her to Jakarta with the promise of sending her to beauty school, has
other intentions. In a packed household, Siti's hope for survival rests in
her growing intimacy with one of her uncle's other wives. And Ming, a
waitress and material girl, contrives to become her Catholic boss' second
wife. The lives of these three women from different classes and ethnic
backgrounds intersect as the similarities in their stories are revealed.

*	SEA IN THE BLOOD, Richard Fung, 26 minutes/ English/ 2000/ Canada.
	An intensely moving personal essay about living in the shadow of
illness, Sea in the Blood explores two of Fung's closest relationships -
with his late sister Nan, who died in 1977 of a rare blood disorder called
thalassemia (which literally means 'sea in the blood'), and with his
lifelong lover, Tim, who has been living with HIV since 1980. 

*	BLOSSOMING OF MAXIMO OLIVEROS, Auraeus Solito, 100 minutes/ Tagalog
with English subtitles/ 2005/ Philippines
	Maximo is a preteen boy who lives a feminine life, loved and cared
for by his widowed father and two teenage brothers who all lead lives of
petty crime. He cooks, cleans, and sews for his family, and entertains his
neighbours in the squalid slum by improvised fashion parades. Helped one day
by a new neighbour, Victor, his life takes a drastic turn: he falls in love
with the young, good-looking cop. Moreover, Victor angers the family by
encouraging Maximo to aspire to a better life.

*	THE LAST FULL SHOW, Mark V. Reyes, 18 minutes/ Tagalog with English
subtitles/ 2004/ The Phillipines
	A young man, just beginning to explore his sexuality, learns a
painful first lesson about love after meeting an older, more experienced man
at an underground Manila movie theatre.

*	THE MATCHMAKER, Cinzia Puspita Rini, 10 minutes/ Indonesian with
English subtitles/ 2006/ Indonesia
	A simple story about Kay, an eclectic girl with both beauty and
sweetness and a guy who seems to fall for her. Their eyes locked and she had
him besotted since the first second he saw her, in his bookstore. The simple
yet charming guy, named Darren owns a bookstore and she is quite a regular
customer. A conversation over the book she ordered actually begins what we
think as a start of a romantic journey. While, Kay is cooking a master plan
which involves Darren in her own mind, they enjoy their times together. A
week after their first meeting, Kay decides to launch her master plan. 

For more information on the films and their directors please see:
www.filmsofdesire.org 

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