Shortly after Jingzhe, the third solar term of the Chinese calendar, Qizhe returns home for spring break to visit his mother. After reconnecting with a man he first met online, the carefully divided worlds he has created begin to collide, forcing him to confront the tension between his true self and the expectations of being the perfect son.
Home can become a strange kind of waiting room when you are old enough to leave but not yet free to live as yourself. The Third Solar Term understands that frustration extremely well. J.C. Song’s gay short film follows a young Chinese man caught between family expectation and a life he can only imagine elsewhere. Some ideas feel bigger than twenty minutes, but that incompleteness actually suits a character still becoming himself.
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In Yorkshire, Johnny Saxby, a solitary sheep farmer drowning his frustrations in alcohol and intimate encounters, has his world shaken by the arrival of Gheorghe, a migrant worker from Romania hired for lambing season.
Parting Glances
1986
Drama, Musical, Romance
As Michael and Robert, a gay couple in New York, prepare for Robert's two-year work assignment in Africa, Michael confronts Robert's true motives and their circle of eccentric friends, including Nick, who is living with AIDS.
Shortly after Jingzhe, the third solar term of the Chinese calendar, Qizhe returns home for spring break to visit his mother. After reconnecting with a man he first met online, the carefully divided worlds he has created begin to collide, forcing him to confront the tension between his true self and the expectations of being the perfect son.
Home can become a strange kind of waiting room when you are old enough to leave but not yet free to live as yourself. The Third Solar Term understands that frustration extremely well. J.C. Song’s gay short film follows a young Chinese man caught between family expectation and a life he can only imagine elsewhere. Some ideas feel bigger than twenty minutes, but that incompleteness actually suits a character still becoming himself.
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