This weekend at trainspotting in Beijing, there’s a mini-festival of queer films from China. If the sight of two men kissing doesn’t make you slide on your seat, this is probably not your night.

take advantage of a rare opportunity to see all (or most) Chinese films touching on the subject of homosexuality, all shown in one place. Today is Jiaoluo, Nutongzhi Youxing and Hezi, Sunday see Donggong Xigong, Lanyu, Jinnian Xiatian and Chunguang Zhaxian. This probably won’t happen again, so get in on it.

Lanyu was adapted from the internet novel Beijing Story by Beijing Comrades in 2001, and directed by Stanley Kwan.

Chunguang Zhaxian is, I think Mandarin translation of Chuen Gwong tsa sit, better known in English as Happy Together, directed and filmed by my favourite duo Wong Kar-wai and Christopher Doyle, which has the gayest first five minutes of any film outside of Bruce La Bruce.

蓝宇 – Lanyu