The Thailand International LGBTQ+ Film and TV Festival 2025 will run from 2nd to 7th September at Icon Siam’s Cineconic cinema in Bangkok. One of TILFF’s highlights will be a complete retrospective of films by Danny Cheng Wan-Cheung, the Hong Kong director better known as Scud.
All ten of Scud’s films will be shown, including the sexually explicit Love Actually... Sucks! (愛很爛), Utopians (同流合烏), Apostles (十三門徒), and Thirty Years of Adonis (三十儿立). Utopians will be screened on 2nd September, and Thirty Years of Adonis on 4th September, both followed by Q&As with the director. Apostles and Love Actually... Sucks! are both screening on 6th September.
All ten of Scud’s films will be shown, including the sexually explicit Love Actually... Sucks! (愛很爛), Utopians (同流合烏), Apostles (十三門徒), and Thirty Years of Adonis (三十儿立). Utopians will be screened on 2nd September, and Thirty Years of Adonis on 4th September, both followed by Q&As with the director. Apostles and Love Actually... Sucks! are both screening on 6th September.
There will also be a rare opportunity to see some of Thai artist Oat Montien’s experimental short films, which are being shown on 7th September in a programme titled Lettres d’amour (จดหมายรัก). The programme includes Mochit, which was made for the 7th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival (เทศกาลหนังทดลองกรุงเทพฯ ครั้งที่ 7).
To desaturate the colour palette in Mochit, Oat mixed his own semen into the developing fluid while processing the film, making him the third Thai artist to use semen in his work. The others are Kullathida Krajangkul, who used semen from ten donors to paint a map of Khon Kaen for her installation เพราะเสร็จ จึงเจริญ (‘because it’s finished, it’s prosperous’); and Kosit Juntaratip, whose abstract painting Copulate with Love is labelled as “Ejaculation on canvas (Kosit’s spermatozoa)” at MAIIAM in Chiang Mai.
To desaturate the colour palette in Mochit, Oat mixed his own semen into the developing fluid while processing the film, making him the third Thai artist to use semen in his work. The others are Kullathida Krajangkul, who used semen from ten donors to paint a map of Khon Kaen for her installation เพราะเสร็จ จึงเจริญ (‘because it’s finished, it’s prosperous’); and Kosit Juntaratip, whose abstract painting Copulate with Love is labelled as “Ejaculation on canvas (Kosit’s spermatozoa)” at MAIIAM in Chiang Mai.
