“What happened behind bars must stay there.” That’s how Mezipatra introduces Mi-ji’s side of the story in Silent Sparks. Pua, his former cellmate, is hoping to see him again. He has compensation to pay and a mother to support. Soon after he gets out of prison, he takes a job with a gangster.
Ping Chu’s film is on the Brno leg of the Mezipatra Queer Film Festival, where it screens at 8.30 pm on Thursday, 19 November. It’s part of Focus Taiwan, which puts contemporary queer cinema from Taiwan on the programme.
The other Focus Taiwan feature is The Trio Hall, showing at 6 pm on Wednesday, 18 November. At his 2023 museum exhibition in Taipei, director Su Hui-yu let visitors see a film in the making. There was a rehearsal space and a studio. The feature that came out of it looks like a Taiwanese variety show from the 1980s, with Stalin and Chiang Kai-shek sharing the dance floor.
Both films play in the small hall at CO.LABS, Kounicova 22. Use the film pages for booking. Mezipatra lists subtitles in English and Czech for each screening.
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