This year’s theme is Taihen vs. Hentai.

One of the main aims of Kansai Queer Film Festival is to recognise and reflect diversity in gender, sexuality and ways of living. This is a very important step towards creating a world where queer people can live without feeling oppression in their daily lives. KQFF is run by staff who reflect this diversity, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender people and others. But even within such a group, there are times when we are confronted by our own ignorance, and fail to understand one another’s point of view. Furthermore, discrimination and majority-minority relations (such as in terms of race, class, (dis)ability) exist within queer communities as well.

“Diversity” is easy to talk about, but difficult to fully realise. In spite of this, to express diversity in all its complexity, we have chosen the theme Taihen vs. Hentai. Taihen can mean “very”, or it can mean “terrible”. Hentai can refer to a metamorphosis (in the biological sense), but the more common meaning is “perversion”, as opposed to jōtai, a state of normality. By writing them in katakana, we have preserved considerable ambiguity of meaning, but taihen is intended to represent the kinds of difficulties mentioned earlier; hentai, personal forms of expression that go beyond boundaries of heterosexual, gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender, and the fluid nature of each person’s identity and expression.

organising body:
Kansai Queer Film Festival committee
c/o QWRC
1-1-7-408 Nakazaki-Nishi, Kita-ku,
Osaka 530-0015, JAPAN

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