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Asia Societyで来週からスタートするAAIFF、昨年のプログラムのLGBT関連はドキュメンタリー中心でしたが、今年はfeatureもありかなり充実しているようです。

Queer Cinema featured in 30th Asian American Internaitonal Film Festival in NYC

when | July 19-28
where | Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue @ 70th Street
subway | 6 to 68th Street Hunter College

tickets | $10 (General admission)
website |　http://aaiff.org
| t: 212.327.9385 | f: 212.517.8315

This year's program features these gems...


KING AND THE CLOWN
Wed. 7.25 | 9:15PM
Dir. Lee Jun-Ik | Korea 2005 | 119min | Narrative

Before Boon Joon-ho's THE HOST, KING AND THE CLOWN was the highest grossing domestic film in South Korea. A period piece set in 16th century Korea, it explores the journey of two vaudeville actors ? a bawdy brute and a gentle drag princess ? whose performances are a wry social commentary about a tyrannical ruler.


ETERNAL SUMMER (Sheng Xia Guang Nian)
Dir. Leste Chen | Taiwan 2006 | 96min | Narrative
Sat. 7.28 | 2:30PM

Childhood friends Jonathan and Shane love each other with a passion, but is there something more to it? The second feature of rising filmmaker Leste Chan is a handsome, eloquent elegy to that possibility. It is rich of seasons, lived by a quirky pair of best friends and a girl who challenges their order.

SHE'S YOUR QUEEN shorts program

Total Running Time: 104 MINS
Thurs. 7.26 | 6:30PM

By women, about women?this collection of shorts give proof to the power of the double X chromosome. All hail to the majesty of these amazing examples of royalty: WHITE SONG; AMERICAN GRANNY; METRO ES PARA TODOS; A WATERMELON SEED; CHOICES; GIRL WITH A WALKMAN; RED SHOES; TALKING ABOUT AMY; MISS CHINATOWN, U.S.A.; and BYSTANDING.

I LOVE YOU TO DEATH shorts program
Total Running Time: 99 MINS
Sat. 7.21 | 9:30PM.

The wisest of power ballads teach us about the follies and joys of that silly thing called "love." Fall in and out of its slippery seduction with these tales from the darker side: BLIND DATE; GAS; DREAMTRACE; LAST STRANGER UNDER THE HEAVENS; THE ESSAY ASSIGNMENT; MAPS; THE LAST VACATION; FLUTTER; WHEN WE WERE GROWN UPS; and LAWRENCE. Q+A