Movies: Fan Popo

  • 2023
    Captain Faggotron Saves the Universe

    Captain Faggotron Saves the Universe (2023)

    Captain Faggotron Saves the Universe

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    A young priest is intent on denying his homosexuality, and he's not doing a very good job. Meanwhile, his alien ex-lover is plotting to turn the Earth into a homosexual planet during a cosmic event and Captain Faggotron is caught in the middle. Clash...

    Captain Faggotron Saves the Universe
  • 2023
    Wegen Hegel

    Wegen Hegel (2023)

    Wegen Hegel

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    Philosophy student Ping just moved to Germany, when caught in the lockdown. Through online dating he matches Max, who invites him on a "social distance hookup". But when it's about to get spicy, a certain philosophy book ruins their plans....

    Wegen Hegel
  • 2012
    Mama Rainbow

    Mama Rainbow (2012)

    Mama Rainbow

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    For Chinese parents, finding out that their kid is gay usually presents a major tragedy, with the big majority utterly unable to accept the homosexuality of their son or daughter. However, during recent years a fresh rainbow wind has been blowing ove...

    Mama Rainbow
  • 2011
    Be a Woman

    Be a Woman (2011)

    Be a Woman

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    Over the course of 3 years, Fan Popo visited a bar called “Only-Love” in Nanning, China, getting to know the dancers and drag queens there and discovering who they really were behind their exuberant costumes and personas....

    Be a Woman
  • 2020
    Beer! Beer!

    Beer! Beer! (2020)

    Beer! Beer!

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    "Beer! Beer!" is an "anti-romantic comedy" set in the early morning following a wild party in Berlin. When Tao, a Chinese guy, meets Sebastian, a local German. As they seem to get more and more intimate with each other, suddenly a mattress changes ev...

    Beer! Beer!
  • 2020
    Hasen Pavillion

    Hasen Pavillion (2020)

    Hasen Pavillion

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    Shot with his iPhone at the cruising forest of Hasenheide Park in Berlin, Fan Popo's research-ground, play-ground now lost its fame. The song he hummed is a piece from the Traditional Chinese opera "Peony Pavillion"....

    Hasen Pavillion
  • 2019
    Floss

    Floss (2019)

    Floss

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    The relationship between two young men in Beijing becomes strained after one of them develops an unusual fetish....

    Floss
  • 2009
    New Beijing, New Marriage

    New Beijing, New Marriage (2009)

    New Beijing, New Marriage

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    This short film shows a quest of two homosexual couples for understanding from the people in their surroundings, through meetings and exchanges on a square in the heart of Beijing....

    New Beijing, New Marriage
  • 2016
    Papa Rainbow

    Papa Rainbow (2016)

    Papa Rainbow

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    In China, most families have difficulties facing their lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgender (LGBT) children. They have to contend with common social beliefs that homosexuality is shameful, abnormal, a perverted condition caused by deviant family...

    Papa Rainbow
  • 2013
    The Vachina Monologues

    The Vachina Monologues (2013)

    The Vachina Monologues

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    The Chinese Department of Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou) staged the Chinese debut of "The Vagina Monologues" in December 2003. Since then, this feminist play, which came from the US and has been committed to the elimination of gender-based violen...

    The Vachina Monologues
  • 2019
    The Drum Tower

    The Drum Tower (2019)

    The Drum Tower

    102019HD

    In this short from acclaimed queer filmmaker Fan Popo, an introverted senior school student and a transgender vintage shop-owner, two lonely souls are swimming in the fast-changing-city pool. Can they break the wall of communication? Where are they h...

    The Drum Tower
  • 2009
    Chinese Closet

    Chinese Closet (2009)

    Chinese Closet

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    A large majority of LGBT people in mainland China remain in the closet. Most of these closet doors are kept tightly shut by pressure from friends, family, and society itself. This documentary hopes to explore the experience of coming out in China thr...

    Chinese Closet
  • 2016
    Pink Dads

    Pink Dads (2016)

    Pink Dads

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    This short documentary features four Chinese fathers who talk openly and freely about their experiences with their LGBT children. Speaking out against discrimination and stigma, they redefine what it means to protect a household. They fully embrace t...

    Pink Dads