Over the Rainbow

4 Movies

Taiwanese film director Zero Chou's (周美玲) Six Asian Cities Rainbow Project — a series of six productions about LGBTQ+ issues shot in six different cities across Asia. Five have been completed so far in the cities: Chengdu (We Are Gamily/偽婚男女); Beijing (The Substitute/替身); Singapore (Handsome Stewardess/帥T空姐 TV Series); Taipei (Wrath of Desire/愛·殺); Penang (Secrets of 1979/弓蕉園的秘密). One more project is planned for Hong Kong.

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We Are Gamily

20179.5

A gay man and a lesbian arrange to have a "fake" marriage to appease their families. Hijinks ensue. The lesbian falls in love with her "husband's" twin sister and things begin to get even more complicated.

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The Substitute

20175.2

To compensate the loss of Lu’s brother, Lu, the captain of judo team at school, has been brought up by her mother as a substitute of her brother in Beijing. In the seemingly masculine appearance, she secretly falls in love with Nicole, the internet celebrity girl from Taiwan. Lu and Nicole meet each other in a judo competition of which the winner would have the chance to become the leading actress in an action film. Nicole wins the competition, but she disappears right before the movie start shooting. As Nicole’s substitute, Lu then has the chance to play the leading actress of the action movie. But the thing is, is Lu able to find her own self-identity and be the real her in one’s life?

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Wrath of Desire

20203.0

Androgynous Phoenix Du, the illicit daughter of a presidential candidate, kills the thug who breaks into her apartment to silence her. She comes before prosecutor Jade Liu, guilt-ridden from the suicide of her brother and her strict Catholic upbringing. Before demanding Phoenix’s three-and-a-half years sentence for manslaughter, Jade has a night of passion with her that redirects both their lives. Phoenix writes her hundreds of letters and begs her to wait for her release. In fear of her own desire, Jade marries Meng Ye, the genderless young man she saved from prison who reminds her of her brother…

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Secrets of 1979

20217.8

In the summer of 1979, during Taiwan’s martial law period, Bing-Kuan asks her college friend Shu-Lan to help out on her family’s banana plantation. As time goes by, the two girls secretly develop a romantic relationship, and decide to volunteer at the Formosa Magazine in order to promote democratic freedom of expression. Yet their youthful romance is threatened as the Kuomintang regime seeks to suppress dissident voices.

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Over the Rainbow

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We Are Gamily

The Substitute

Wrath of Desire

Secrets of 1979

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We Are Gamily

The Substitute

Wrath of Desire

Secrets of 1979