Queer Eyes – Documentaries from the RAI collection
Fringe! is delighted to team up with The Royal Anthropological Institute and the RAI Film Festival throughout July this year in celebration of Pride.
The RAI has an extensive catalogue of documentary films which showcase the variety and diversity of human life across the world. Throughout the next month we will be holding screenings of 3 key documentaries which welcome us into the lives of different queer communities around the world, followed by a public Q&A hosted to explore some of these central questions of gender, identity and sexuality through the lens of different cultures.
Dream Girls (dir. Kim Longinotto & Jano Williams, 1993, 50 mins, Japanese with English subtitles)
This award-winning film opens a door into the amazing world of the Takarazuka Revue, the all-female theatre troupe in Japan. Thousands of young women aspire to perform in the Revue’s glitzy musical spectaculars and the millions of women who attend the shows idolise the romantic heroes like heart throb pop starts. Each year, thousands of girls apply to enter the male-run Takarazuka Music School. The few who are accepted endure years of a highly disciplined and reclusive existence before they can join the Revue, choosing male or female roles. Dream Girls offers a compelling insight into gender and sexual identity and the contradictions experienced by Japanese women today.
Watch the film for free HERE from Thursday 25th June to Thursday 2nd July.
And book your ticket below for the live YouTube Q&A on Wednesday 1st July, 8pm, featuring guest speakers Kim Longinotto (director), ShayShay (Drag Artist) and Jennifer Coates (Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies, University of Sheffield).
This Event is part of Film FeelsConnected, a UK-wide cinema season, supported by the National Lottery and BFI Film Audience Network. Explore all films and events at filmfeels.co.uk