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Canadian animator Shira Avni’s ten-minute animated film John and Michael(2004) celebrates the lives of two gay men with Down’s Syndrome. Typical of her work, the film addresses“questions of difference and social...

We hear the story from a third person perspective about how the couple initially grew up together in a group home. One night they pushed their beds together...

Canadian documentarian and artist Lynne Fernie’s²¹seventeen-minute Apples and Oranges(2003)is the longest of the five films I have selected and was created with a children’s audience in mind. As noted in the synopsis,...

Hong Kong, an urban jungle. The city hosts 7.4 million people on a territory of 1104 square kilometres, one of the most densely populated cities in the...

Originally a sparsely populated farming and fishing village, Hong Kong became a British colony by the end of the First Opium War in 1842. The city gradually developed...