BLOOM. THEN
BLOOM AGAIN.
Special Pride Month 2025 film screening: an exploration of queer grief, joy and second adolescence through the works of up-and-coming LGBTQIA+ filmmakers and a cult classic.
Organised by Sana Nurlan, co-facilitated by Jo Watters, Huiqi He and Arti Siudem.
Wed 18.06.2025 19:00-21:00pm
Atlas Cinema, SW9 7FA London
FREE EVENT
For queer people, time isn’t linear. We bloom, explore, then bloom again. Just like summer flowers, we celebrate our lives together in Pride Month. On 18 June, join KONTEKST to celebrate our queer existence that’s just like summer flowers.
Those who are in the LGBTQIA+ community often experience what’s called a queer adolescence, where we embody our queer selves after the struggles of the first adolescence. During the first adolescence, many of us face homophobia, transphobia and prejudice. We might also feel isolated because of our gender nonconformity. We live by our own timelines, instead of going by societal expectations set by straight, cisgender standards. Not all flowers have to bloom at the same time, some bloom, then bloom again.
KONTEKST aims to not only celebrate queer joy, but also queer grief. The grief of feeling alone, or the grief of finally feeling right in our skins, or the grief of not catching up to the expectations of the outside world placed upon us. Find us at Atlas Cinema this Pride Month, let both joy and grief bind us together in a flower bouquet we gift ourselves.
FREE ENTRY!!! Donations on the day welcome though so that we can use the money raised for future events.
PROGRAMME:
Golden Voice
by Mars Verrone
2022
In Golden Voice a transgender man returns to the village forty years after the Cambodian genocide, where he not only survived but miraculously found queer and transgender community, including the love of his life.
Becoming a Man
by Oliver Lyric
2025
In Becoming a Man, director Oliver Lyric documented the unseen parts of the story during process of using testosterone and becoming a man. With Oliver’s voice and visual language, we enter a zone where the audience sees the soul beyond the body.
TRIGGER WARNING: blood, needles
Lust Envy
by Aisha Boudjillouli
2024
In Lust Envy, director and animator Aisha Boudjillouli used animation to explore the moment where one can experience two emotions striking at once.
Passaggio
by Amiko Li
2023
Passaggio is an experimental film depicting a queer teenager's journey of self-discovery and voice-finding odyssey in China. Going through the unsettling phase of voice transition and subsequently losing his voice, the protagonist must plunge into the world's myriad sounds, observing, absorbing, and imitating them.
Shinjuku boys
by Kim Longinotto & Jano Williams
1995
In Shinjuku Boys we time travel back to the 90s in Japan, exploring the lives of three non-binary and transgender men who work at the New Marilyn Club in Tokyo. The three protagonists discuss their romantic relationships, their relationships with their parents, their gender presentations, how they understand their own genders, and their different outlooks on life.