Asia Pacific Queer Film Festival Alliance Shorts(HKLGFF 2019)

Movie Name: Gentleman Spa
Language: Mandarin(English Subtitles)
Category: IIB
Duration: 18 mins
Director: Jhi-han Yu
Hao, a chubby gay man, works as a janitor at a gay spa. For him, romantic relationships are an unreachable dream. One day, an attractive customer, Kai, walks into the place, and Hao has the opportunity to massage Him. As they talk and get to know each other, they bond. However, things do not go as smoothly as Hao expected.

Movie Name: Kado
Language: Indonesian, Others Language(In Parts)(English Subtitles)
Category: I
Duration: 16 mins
Director: Aditya Ahmad
Isfi can wear her comfortable pants among her guy friends but has to wear hijab to be accepted at Nita’s house. Two days to Nita’s birthday, all Isfi wants is to prepare the best gift in Nita’s room.

Movie Name: Afterearth
Language: English(No Subtitles)
Category: I
Duration: 14 mins
Director: Jess X. Snow
In Hawai’i , the Philippines, China and North America, four women give offerings of song, poetry and gardening to preserve the volcano, ocean, land and air for future generations. They draw their understandings of motherhood through connections with their homeland environment.

Movie Name: Black Lips
Language: Mandarin, English(In Parts)(English(In Parts) Subtitles)
Category: III
Duration: 15 mins
Director: Adrian Chiarella
A lonely abalone trader is awakened by a longing he’s never explored before.

Movie Name: The Booth
Language: Hindi(English Subtitles)
Category: IIA
Duration: 15mins
Director: Rohin Raveendran Nair
A female frisking booth inside a crowded shopping mall stands as a silent ally to a forbidden romance.