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Tongzhi in Love is a film of genre Documentary released in USA on 18 june 2008

Tongzhi in Love (2008)

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Released in USA 18 june 2008
Length 30minutes
Rating77% 3.86813.86813.86813.86813.8681

Tongzhi in Love is a 2008 30-minute documentary film directed by Ruby Yang which portrays the life of gay men in China. The film was produced by Thomas Lennon and features music by Bill Frisell and Brian Keane. The film's world premiere was at the Silverdocs Film Festival in Washington, D.C. on 18 June 2008 and the West Coast premiere at the Frameline Film Festival in San Francisco on 28 June 2008. (Film was previously known as A Double Life and appears under that title in the Frameline catalog.) "Tongzhi" means "comrade" and has become a slang term for "gay" in several Asian countries. This film was also shown at the 52nd San Francisco International Film Festival.
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