International Boy Shorts: Happy Family(HKLGFF 2023)

Movie Name: The Third Solar Term
Language: Mandarin(English Subtitles)
Category: IIB
Duration: 21 Mins
Director: Zhanfei Song
Cast: -
Story: Qizhe returns home to spend spring break with his mother but after meeting a man he originally met online, he is conflicted between living true to himself and pretending to be the perfect son.

Movie Name: Coming Out With the Help of a Time Machine
Language: English(English Subtitles)
Category: I
Duration: 15 Mins
Director: Naman Gupta
Cast: -
Story: Sid plans to come out to his conservative, community-oriented parents. If anything should go wrong, he has the power of time travel on his side-and he’ll do anything to emerge from this encounter unscathed.

Movie Name: Dildo
Language: Tagalog(English Subtitles)
Category: IIB
Duration: 1 Min
Director: Jake Muñoz Consing
Cast: -
Story: A teenage boy discovers he can use his face massager for… well...his…

Movie Name: Baba
Language: Arabic, English(English Subtitles)
Category: IIA
Duration: 18 Mins
Director: Sam Arbor, Adam Ali
Cast: -
An unexpected discovery forces Britannia, a queer Libyan teenager, to question whether to stay or flee his beloved homeland.

Movie Name: Happy Birthgay
Language: Hebrew(English Subtitles)
Category: IIA
Duration: 16 Mins
Director: Niv Manzur
Cast: -
Story: Mom throws her son a grandiose surprise BirthGay party, celebrating a year of his coming out of the closet. However, this film is a sad farce about the mother’s closet, rather than the son’s.

Movie Name: Abundance of Questions
Language: English
Category: I
Duration: 1 Min
Director: Todd Lien
Cast: -
Story: Abundance of love can take different forms or shapes in different cultures.


Movie Name: Foreign Uncle
Language: Mandarin(English Subtitles)
Category: I
Duration: 20 Mins
Director: Sining Xiang
Cast: -
Story: Sining brings his American boyfriend, Patrick, back to China to visit his family. After Sining inadvertently comes out to them, everyone’s attitude towards Patrick goes south - except for Sining’s 7-year-old nephew, Naonao.