SEA Junction screened a movie “Let’s Love” which discussed about the LGBTQI community in Laos could be described as “invisible”. The movie showed Mai’s (main actor) complex relationships with her family, friends and wider society, the documentary illuminates the discrimination experienced by LGBTQI in Laos.
Photo by Rosalia Sciortino, Kanyawee Seedabut and Tipakson Manpati
Event poster
Dorn Bouttasing, a moviedirector arrived at SEA
Junction venue
Participants started fillingup the seats
Dorn Bouttasing withthe movie poster
The movie started
The starting scene in themovie showed that ‘Mai’
who is the main actor
participants focused on the movie
Movie director Dorn andcommentator Ninar (third from left)
The movie is 30-minutelong about LGBTQI community
in Lao had welcomed
participants full of house
After the movie ended,SEA Junction director introduced
to discussion session
Dorn Bouttasing sharedthat her team interviewed
40 people who are LGBT
Ninar commented thatthis film also applies to
Thailand which has claimed
itself as LGBT friendly
country
Dorn responded to participants’questions whether LGBT
in Laos is criminalized or
culturally discrimination?
The second questions askedhow Dorn used her research in the film
In this movie, it is acollective story from different
people based on Dorn’s research
Another questioned askedto Dorn was what is the
reaction from the government
and society in Laos
Dorn shared that this filmis not banned in Laos
Participant took a picturewith movie director and
commentator
A picture of SEA Junctiondirector and the movie
director, commentator
and participant