THE BANGALORE 10th QUEER FILM Anniversary FESTIVAL #BQFF2019 I'm crying cuz I love you We’ve turned ten! And we didn’t make it so far on our own. One of the several perks of being a volunteer-run, community- funded event has been that friends from the community and of the community have come in, rolled up their sleeves, hitched up their hemlines and taken charge over the many years. From the first public film festival called ‘Bangalored’, held with our signature spread of mattresses at the Attakkalari Studios and helmed by the good folks of Pedestrian Pictures, Swabhava’s Vinay Chandran (who remains the longest- running festival director), Sangama, and the funding prowess of Bangalore’s former party starter Abhishek Agarwal, to the smaller festivals organised at a screening room in the Sona Towers, to its present avatar as the Bangalore Queer Film Festival – this festival has become its own beauty, its own beast. Over this decade-long journey, we’ve been held and nurtured by support groups like Good As You, We’re Here And Queer and All Sorts of Queers; individuals like Karthik Vaidyanathan, Nanju Reddy and Siddharth Narrain (who were part of the organising team in the early editions) and organisations like the Alliance Française de Bangalore and Goethe Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan. A question that everyone involved with the festival asks at its end: How did we make this happen again? And while we’ve come up with lots of lies to drive out these doubts, in truth: we have no real idea. Nearly five months before the date of the festival, someone (it has never ever been the same person) sends out a message: When are we doing our first meeting for next year’s BQFF? And from then on, it is just a matter of moving our lives and work schedules around to make it happen – because it will happen either way. This festival is a drama queen that needs her audience. And we’re all just her makeup and wigs department. But even before this questions bleeps onto our phone screens from other members of the organising team, it is you – our audience – who always ask: BQFF is happening right? (Sometimes just a week after one has gone by.) And I think it is the need to always answer in the affirmative that keeps this festival going. The festival has always been bigger than the people who run it (and it will always be), it has been about you and you alone – our audience. So, we’d like to say – we love you! Thanks for coming each and every year, for being patient with our shortcomings, for encouraging our flights of fancy and for allowing us to show you films. We’ve been super thrilled to have you with us. And want to see more of you in the years to come. Now, flip through the brochure and enjoy the programme we’ve put together for you at the tenth edition of the Bangalore Queer Film Festival over the next four days! Happy viewing, lovelies, cuties and hensems! And hey, eat a slice of cake for us! Contents 7 Schedule 17 Feature Films 31 Documentaries 43 Short Documentaries 55 Institut Française 61 Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT) –'Engaging with Sexualities' 71 Shorts 119 Holding You Close: The BQFF Art Exhibition 125 Panels 129 Performances 134 Ten Years of Gratitude 140 Film Contacts Schedule Thursday, August 1 Alliance Française de Bangalore 10 : 30 AM Ti Gars (One of the Guys) 2018 | Doris Buttignol France/Canada | 1 hr 32 min | French 12 : 03 PM [ MORNING BREAK ] 12 : 10 PM Megg - The Margin who Migrate to the Center 2018 | Larissa Nepomuceno and Eduardo Sanches Brazil | 15 min | Portugese 12 : 25 PM Lupah Sug 2018 | Rhadem Camlian Morados Philippines | 29 min | Filipino 12 : 55 PM Ishq, Dosti and All That 2018 | Srishti Lakhera, Rituparna Borah, Ritambhara Mehta, and Bhamati Sivapalan India | 19 min 1 : 15 PM [ LUNCH ] 2 : 00 PM I’m Moshanty. Do You Love Me? 2018 | Tim Wolff Papua New Guinea | 1 hr 12 min | English 3 : 12 PM Breaking Out! 2018 | Heshvanth Gurukul India | 25 min | Hindi 3 : 37 PM Kiko 2018 | Jojo Driz Philippines | 2018 | 20 min | Filipino 3 : 58 PM Lalla 2018 | José Salazar France | 2018 | 13 min | French 4 : 11 PM MMF 2017 | Leonard Garner Germany | 10 min | German/English 9 4 : 22 PM I’m Not There 2018 | Ajita Banerjie India | 12 min | English/Hindi 4 : 35 PM Un Homme Mon Fils 2017 | Florent Gouëlou France | 34 min | French 5 : 10 PM [ EVENING BREAK ] 5 : 20 PM 2015 2018 | Eluna R. Cepeda Philippines | 14 min | Filipino 5 : 34 PM Breathe 2018 | Anushka Shivdasani Rovshen and Madhuri Mohindar India | 24 min | English/Hindi 5 : 56 PM Only What You Need to Know About Me 2018 | Maria Augusta V. Nunes Brazil | 15 min | Portugese 6 : 11 PM A Safe Person to Talk to 2018 | Navdeep Sharma India | 19 min | English/Hindi 6 : 40 PM La sociologue et l’ourson 2016 | Mathias Théry and Etienne Chaillou France | 1 hr 18 min | French 8 : 00 PM Cinderella 2018 | Mehdi Aghajani Iran | 25 min | Persian 8 : 30 PM A Woman Is A Woman 2018 | Maisy Goosy Suen Hong Kong | 1 hr 33 min | Cantonese & some English Friday, August 2 Alliance Française de Bangalore 10 : 00 AM No Box For Me. An Intersex Story 2018 | Floriane Devigne France | 58 min | French 11 : 00 AM [ MORNING BREAK ] 11 : 15 AM Flora 2018 | Chaerin Im USA | 4 min | English 11 : 20 AM Mort-Bois, a young Jean Genet 2018 | Frédéric Labonde and Frédéric Bonnet France | 29 min | French 11 : 49 AM Zara Nazar Utha Ke Dekho 2018 | Anindya Shankar Das India | 24 min | English/Hindi/Punjabi/Kannada/Bengali 12 : 13 PM Falling 2016 | Tang Kang Sheng Singapore | 24 min | English 12 : 37 PM Framing Agnes 2018 | Chase Joynt Canada and USA | 19 min | English 12 : 57 PM Splendid Case of Doubt 2018 | Daniel Moshel Austria | 4 min | No dialogue 1 : 00 PM [ LUNCH ] 2 : 00 PM Breakup in 9 Scenes 2018 | Leil Zahra Mortada Lebanon | 15 min | English 2 : 15 PM Nján Sánjo (I’m Sánjo) 2019 | Jijo Kuriakose India | 15 min | Malayalam 2 : 30 PM Reality Fragment 160921 2018 | Qigemu (Jasmine Lin + April Lin) UK/USA/Sweden | 14 min | English/Mandarin 11 2 : 45 PM La Flaca (The Bony Lady) 2018 | Thiago Zanato and Adriana Barbosa USA, Brazil and Mexico | 20 min | Spanish 3 : 05 PM Came The Wave 2018 | Benjamin Busnel France | 20 mins | French 3 : 25 PM La Religiosa 2018 | Andrea Armentano and Sofía Torre Argentina | 22 min | Spanish 3 : 47 PM Finding Prayers 2019 | Nilay Samiran Nandi India | 21 min | Bengali 4 : 08 PM Our Stories Our Journeys 2018 | Christy Raj India | 11 min | Kannada/Tamil/Telugu/Malayalam 4 : 20 PM Eli - A Portrait 2018 | Lumen Nguyen Germany | 7 min | German 4 : 30 PM [ EVENING BREAK ] 4 : 40 PM Si Chedeng at si Apple (Chedeng and Apple) 2017 | Rae Red and Fatrick Tabada Philippines | 1 hr 27 min | Filipino 6 : 20 PM PERFORMANCE : Nanna Dhvani with Revathi 7 : 00 PM Yeh Freedom Life / This Freedom Life 2018 | Priya Sen India | 1 hr 10 min | Hindi 8 : 20 PM Nocturama 2016 | Bertrand Bonello France/Germany | 2 hr 10 min | French Saturday, August 3 Goethe Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan 10 : 34 AM Katha Vachak 2019 | Deepak Srinivasan India | 22 min | English/Hindi/Kannada 10 : 57 AM Please Mind The Gap 2018 | Mitali Trivedi and Gagandeep Singh India | 20 min | Hindi 11 : 05 AM [ MORNING BREAK ] 11 : 20 AM Snail 2017 | Mohammad Towrivarian Iran | 11 min | Kurdish and Persian 11 : 31 AM Transfinite 2018 | Neelu Bhuman US/UK/India | 1 hr 10 min | English 12 : 42 PM Reinaldo’s Motifs 2018 | Ricardo Vieira Lisboa Portugal | 9 min | Silent 12 : 52 PM Estigma 2018 | David Velduque Spain | 14 min | Spanish 1 : 06 PM [ LUNCH ] 2 : 17 PM Languages 2019 | Debadrita Bose India | 30 min | Bengali 2 : 47 PM Miss Man [International Premiere] 2019 | Tathagata Ghosh India | 25 min | Bengali 3 : 12 PM Naach Bhikhari Naach 2019 | Shilpi Gulati and Jainendra Dost India | 1 hr 12 min | Bhojpuri 13 4 : 25 PM Art Inaugration 5 : 00 PM Song Lang 2018 | Leon Le Vietnam | 1 hr 41 min | Vietnamese 6 : 50 PM Film Panel I : Language of Films 7 : 35 PM Dante vs Mohammed Ali 2018 | Marc Wagenaar The Netherlands | 28 min | Dutch 8 : 04 PM Selma After The Rain 2018 | Loli Menezes Brazil | 12 min | Portugese 8 : 16 PM La Primavera Trans 2018 | Juan David Cortés Hernández Colombia | 25 min 9 : 00 PM El Silencio Es Un Cuerpo Que Cae (Silence is a Falling Body) 2017 | Agustina Comedi Argentina | 1 hr 15 min | Spanish Sunday, August 4 Goethe Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan 10 : 20 AM Birthday 2018 | Shine Louise Houston USA | 7 min | English 10 : 27 AM May 2018 | Harold Antony Paulson India | 14 min | Malayalam 10 : 41 AM Things Break In 2017 | Tess Harrison USA | 7 min | English 10 : 48 PM Birds of Paradise 2018 | Rahul Sudha Mahesh India | 10 min | Malayalam 11 : 00 AM Film Panel ii : How to Make a Queer Image 12 : 10 PM Tin Satyi ... (In Fact ...) 2018 | Debalina India | 51 min | Bengali 1 : 02 PM [ LUNCH ] 2 : 00 PM Mud Mud Ke Na Dekh 2019 | Mujeer Pasha and Veena Kulkarni India | 22 min | Hinglish 2 : 21 PM Langit Budak Biru 2018 | Lim Kean Hian Malaysia | 23 min | Malay 2 : 44 PM The Housemaids 2018 | Asawari Jagushte India | 23 min | English 3 : 07 PM Hands and Wings 2018 | Sungbin Byun South Korea | 18 min | Korean 15 3 : 25 PM An Abstract 2019 | Manoj Thorat India | 20 min | English 3 : 45 PM [ BREAK ] 4 : 00 PM Udalaazham 2018 | Unnikrishnan Avala India | 1 hr 59 min | Malayalam 6 : 10 PM Poetry Reading 7 : 10 PM U Ushacha (U for Usha) 2019 | Rohan Parashuram Kanawade India | 22 min | Marathi 7 : 32 PM Lack 2018 | Ramin Farzaneh and Parisa Sedaei-Azar Iran | 22 min | Azerbaijani 7 : 55 PM Night Watch [International Premiere] 2018 | João Victor Borges Brazil | 23 min | Portugese 8 : 18 PM El niño que quería volar 2018 | Jorge Muriel Spain | 20 min | Spanish 8 : 38 PM Pashi 2017 | Siddharth Chauhan India | 32 min | Pahari 9 : 15 PM Meili 2018 | Zhou Zhou Taiwan, China | 1 hr 29 min | Chinese Feature Films Thursday • 8:30 pm feature films 18 Thursday • 8:30 pm feature films 19 A Woman Is A Woman Is A Woman features the story of two trans women Sung Chi Yu and Chiu Ling Fung.