Gaea Girls + Shinjuku Boys

donderdag, 5 februari

Gaea Girls + Shinjuku Boys

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Gaea Girls (2000, 104”) & Shinjuku Boys (2005, 53”)
Kim Longinotto
UK/Japan


Gaea Girls: follows the physically grueling and mentally exhausting training regimen of several young wanna-be GAEA GIRLS, a group of Japanese women wrestlers. The idea of them may seem like a total oxymoron in a country where women are typically regarded as docile and subservient. However, in training and in the arena, the female wrestlers depicted in this film are just as violent as  their male counterparts.

Shinjuku Boys: A film about love and gender. This documentary is set in the New Marilyn night club in Tokyo, Japan - where the hosts are women who have chosen to live as men. They can only make their living as hosts in a nightclub with other 'wannabes' like them. The young women who come there often have relationships with them but the underlying fear is whether such a relationship can withstand the pressures on a girl to get married and have children.

 

Datum & tijd: 

donderdag, 5 februari, 2015 - 20:30

Categorie: 

  • film

Onderwerpen: 

  • Documentary
  • Gender
  • queer

Prijs: 

4,-
Filmhuis Cavia
Van Hallstraat 52-1
1051 HH Amsterdam
Nederland

Wegbeschrijving: 

Go through the gate. Cavia is on the right hand side, above Xena Sports. Take the stairs.

Squat: 

Former squat, now legalised

Filmhuis Cavia is a counterculture cinema, (legally) founded by a squatters movement in 1983, which programs films you aren't likely to see anywhere else.

categories: 

  • film

opening times: 

We're open a couple of days in the week. Look us up to find our monthly program.
Doors always open half an hour before the film starts.