Fire in Silence Articles

Canadian filmmaker John Greyson (above with festival supporter Laura Righi) was at the 24 Torino GLBT Film Festival to receive a special award for his latest effort, the part-documentary, part-fiction Fig Trees, about the struggles of AIDS activists Tim McCaskell of Toronto and Zackie Achmat of Cape Town, as they fight governments and the pharmaceutical industry for better access to antiviral drugs. Fig Trees won [...]

Torino GLBT Film Festival 2009: Feature Lineup Feature Films IN COMPETITION Rückenwind (Light Gradient) by Jan Krüger (Germany, 2009) friday 24 april, 18.30 – saturday 25 april, 14.30 El patio de mi cárcel (My Prison Yard) by Belén Macías (Spain, 2008) friday 24 april, 22.45 – saturday 25 april, 11.30 Gu huo (Fire in Silence) by Shen Weiwei (China, 2008) saturday 25 april, 18 – [...]

Fire in Silence, the directorial debut of 21-year-old undergraduate student Shen Weiwei, will have its world premiere at the Torino GLBT Film Festival, which kicks off this evening. In Gu huo / Fire in Silence, a young couple face a crisis in their relationship after they meet a man who, after having had numerous liaisons with women, has decided he wants to seduce one of [...]