Edition 2016

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Inside the Chinese Closet

An intimate portrait of Andy and Cherry’s struggle to fulfil their parents’ expectations in a Chinese society where homosexuality is not accepted. Andy, a successful architect living in Shangai decides to come out of the closet. His father, ashamed and disappointed, demands he marries a woman to preserve the family’s honour. Cherry, married to a homosexual, intends to adopt a child to comply with her mother’s demands to preserve social appearances. Andy and Cherry’s efforts to achieve a full life at the expense of faking certain cultural stereotypes, reveals a whole value system. Desperate but always looking forward, their courage shows a young and modern China seeking a space for freedom in a society defined by strong traditional values.

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LGBTQI+Social

Sophia Luvarà

Sophia Luvarà received her MSc with merit in Medical Biotechnology from the University of Turin, where she also studied for a PhD in Cancer Research, but in 2007 she discontinued her studies and moved to London to follow her passion for documentary filmmaking.

Inside The Chinese Closet is Sophia’s first feature length documentary, which she developed at the Documentary Campus Masterschool in 2011 and at the Crossing Borders in 2012 – Eurasia-Pacific documentary training scheme.

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2015

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Sophia Luvarà

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