UK premiere screening of Tracy Choi's Cantonese coming-of-age queer drama 'Girlfriends', part of the Queer East festival at Storyhouse.
Girlfriends screens at Storyhouse Cinema on Wednesday 28 October at 6pm, and it's the UK premiere of the Cantonese-language drama. It's part of Queer East, a cross-disciplinary festival that brings together queer cinema, live arts and moving-image work from East and Southeast Asia and its diaspora communities.
Directed by Tracy Choi, a 34-year-old filmmaker from Macau, the film follows a 34-year-old woman drifting through Hong Kong's film industry. Her life feels unstable, while her girlfriend Bei Bei pushes them to marry, buy a house and settle down. Facing those pressures, she revisits moments from her past: studying in Taiwan at 22 and growing up in Macau at 17. It's a female-centred coming-of-age story that works backwards through her life, and it's described as a romantic, intelligent reflection on queer identity. Fish Liew, Jennifer Yu and Elizabeth Tang Lok star.
It's a Cantonese-language film, so you'll be reading subtitles. The reverse-chronological timeline is one of its more unusual features, alongside a geographic scope that stretches from Hong Kong to Taiwan and Macau. The whole thing runs for about 101 minutes.
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Tickets are £8.90 for members and £9.90 for non-members; under-16s pay £6.75 for members and £7.50 for non-members, and there's a £5 ticket for Young Storyhouse Card holders. The screening is rated 15.
