The Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) has a decent number of queer films this year. Actually, on second though, it has a surprisingly small number of queer films. The festival has about 200 films being screened, and after looking through every films' synopsis, I only could find these 9 films that have LGBTQ themes. Five of these are about transsexualism. The schedule for the films isn't up yet, but I am looking forward to Laurence Anyways (France) and The Weight, which was the first Korean film to win the Queer Lion Prize at the Venice Film Festival.
Here is an alphabetical list of films that appeared to have queer themes. If anyone knows of any others playing at BIFF, please let me know.
Beyond the Hills: Alina returns to Romania from Germany, hoping to bring Voichita - the only person in the world she loves and was loved by - back to her. But Voichita has found God, and God is the hardest lover of all to be jealous of. A film inspired by the non-fiction novels of Tatiana Niculescu Bran.
Eden: Choreographer/Madame Miro reigns supreme at ‘Eden’, gay host bar. Noripy is a woman trapped in a man’s body. When Noripy suddenly dies, Miro and the Eden crew make their frustration with society known on stage and then challenge Noripy’s family to accept her body home.
GF*BF :Three students embroiled in a love triangle and in pursuit of big city dreams see their once unshakeable bonds threatened by secrets, revelations and political volatility of Taiwan’s 1980s, only to reconnect in a country very different from where they started as very different people.
Laurence Anyways: Laurence, a young French teacher enjoys an intense and mutually loving relationship with his fiancée, Fred. Oneday, Laurence confesses to Fred that he longs to become a woman, asking her to support him in this transformation. Despite her best efforts, Fred is too hurt and breaks up with him.
Beyond the Hills: Alina returns to Romania from Germany, hoping to bring Voichita - the only person in the world she loves and was loved by - back to her. But Voichita has found God, and God is the hardest lover of all to be jealous of. A film inspired by the non-fiction novels of Tatiana Niculescu Bran.
Eden: Choreographer/Madame Miro reigns supreme at ‘Eden’, gay host bar. Noripy is a woman trapped in a man’s body. When Noripy suddenly dies, Miro and the Eden crew make their frustration with society known on stage and then challenge Noripy’s family to accept her body home.
GF*BF :Three students embroiled in a love triangle and in pursuit of big city dreams see their once unshakeable bonds threatened by secrets, revelations and political volatility of Taiwan’s 1980s, only to reconnect in a country very different from where they started as very different people.
Laurence Anyways: Laurence, a young French teacher enjoys an intense and mutually loving relationship with his fiancée, Fred. Oneday, Laurence confesses to Fred that he longs to become a woman, asking her to support him in this transformation. Despite her best efforts, Fred is too hurt and breaks up with him.
Mia: Ale, a 28-year-old transvestite who makes a meagre living recycling and selling rubbish ,one day finds a suicided woman's diary. Moved in ways she never thought she could be, Ale attempts to connect with the daughter who was left behind and pass on her mother's feelings.
Noor: Noor wants to be a man. He doesn’t belong with the Khusras, Pakistan’s transgender community, and he is definitely done with love. Now, doing a man’s job in a Truck Decoration Center, he has decided: he will find a girl who will accept him as he is.
Steel: On this side, a steel mill works non-stop. On the other side is Elba Island, a paradise for happy families. In this romantic drama, set against a working class backdrop, the lives of Anna and Fancesca, Alessio and Elena, will be shaped by love.
The Weight: here is the burdens borne by Jung: his own struggles as a hunchback, his would-be transgender stepbrother’s emotional dependency and his duty to the dead as a mortician. Suffering from both TB and arthritis, Jung prepares one final gift for his brother. Two Weddings and a Funeral: In this blessedly comic look at discrimination, a young gay man and his lesbian friend get married to each other to keep the disapproving world at bay and blend in with so-called normal people. Everything works perfectly until his parents start meddling in his life.
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