Get Ready to Rave Through the Last Days of Underground Chengdu! 🌃✨
Darlings, we're taking you on a neon-drenched journey into the heart of China's vanishing club culture! This isn't just any documentary - it's a sweaty, pulsating love letter to queer nightlife and the beautiful misfits who call it home.
Follow a fierce group of young rebels as they dance, party, and find their tribe in Funky Town, a Chengdu nightclub that's more than just four walls and a sound system - it's their sanctuary, their escape, their everything. But honey, nothing gold can stay, and as the city gentrifies, our heroes are living it up like there's no tomorrow (because maybe there isn't).
US filmmaker Ben Mullinkosson captures all the tea - the intimacy, the ecstasy, the uncertainty - as this chosen family navigates life between the strobes. It's giving documentary realness with a side of fiction, serving you the raw truth about freedom and surveillance in contemporary China, where subcultures bloom like beautiful flowers in the concrete... before they're plucked away.
Special Treat: The Thursday 26 June screening includes a fabulous panel discussion hosted by Thread, the coolest collective celebrating East and Southeast Asian culture through electronic music.
Runtime: 92 minutes
Language: Chinese & English with English Subtitles
Rating: Unclassified (15+) - Contains mature themes, sexual references, nudity and a suicidal reference.