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Our Story - 10-year Guerrilla Warfare of Beijing Queer Film Festival

Country: China, Language: Chinese, 45 mins

Original Title

Wo men de gu shi
  • Director: Yang Yang

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In 2001 three students of Peking University in Beijing held the first gay and lesbian film festival. The festival was brought to a halt by the university authorities during the opening event. This was a foretaste of what was to follow during the next ten years, in which the festival has battled against the oppressive vagaries of the authorities, homophobia and discrimination. Under the aegis of its founding director Cui Zi’en, the Beijing Queer Film Festival is still the only film event in China devoted to gender and sexuality; the initiator continues to successfully defy prevailing strict media censorship.

Each of the five editions of the festival came up against official stumbling blocks, and every time the organisers were obliged to find new venues, often at short notice. In order to confuse the censorship authorities, the festival changed its name for each outing – just one of a wide variety of ‘guerrilla’ tactics in which the organisers are now well-versed.


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