European Premiere

Ah-hyun Seo | Documentary | 82 min | South Korea | Korean (English subtitles)

Synopsis 

When Kang-Won, a devout Christian, publicly comes out as gay, this puzzles his equally Christian childhood friend, Ah-Hyun Seo. Her bewilderment inspires her to document his experience living life as a gay man, intimately portraying the cracks in Kang-Won’s happiness that develop over the years.

Torn between Seoul, Berlin, and the United States, Kang-Won struggles with his sense of belonging, while the director effectively asks—and struggles with—what it means to be anally. Set amid the South Korean LGBTIQ+ rights movement, Queer My Friends is more than a coming out story; it is a sincere, disarming testament about uprootedness and friendship.

Programme

• Introduction: 5 min
• Short film screening:  Below the Surface (14 min)
• Film screening: 82 min
• Panel discussion: “Queerness: the Role of Religion and Allies”: Claire Zhou (filmmaker) & Chris Sta Brigida Kopp (Filipino LGBT Europe Foundation)
  

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