Yes or No?, May 09, 2012 | Boston LGBT Film Festival 2012

Boston LGBT Film Festival 2012

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Director

Sarasawadee Wongsompetch

Year

2010

Run Time

107

min

Country

Thailand

Language

Thai

PROGRAM Time

minutes

CONTENT WARNING:

Pie is a sweet girl who moves into a new college dorm room where she finds out that her new roommate Kim, is a tomboy who looks and dress like a boy. As their friendship develops, Pie and Kim begin to wonder if the feeling they feel for one another is just an ordinary friendship or true love.

This film is presented in Thai with English subtitles.

Joins us for a disarmingly sweet tale of two Thai students who must decide whether they are brave enough to live lesbian lives. The first feature film in Thailand to be promoted as a lesbian film, Yes or No? has been an impressive success. Five years in the making, this disarmingly sweet film has been shown in cinemas across Thailand, made a modest profit at the box office and gained a best director nomination at the Thai equivalent to the Oscars. The plot focuses on the forthright Pie and more gentle Kim who are thrown together at university halls of residence. As Pie begins to let go of the prejudices she has inherited from her mother and Kim comes to terms with her tom (butch) identity, the pair become close friends and have to consider whether they are brave enough to be more than that. (Description courtesy of Nazmia Jamal, London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.)

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