Lotus Sports Club
Vanna Hem, Tommaso Colognese / The Netherlands, Cambodia / 2022 / 72 min / Khmer with English subtitles
DOCUMENTARY
Content Warnings: lesbophobia, transphobia, misgendering
Shot in Cambodia, 'Lotus Sports Club' is an inspiring story that centers Leak and Amas, two teenage trans men playing football in Pa Vann's team. The coach and father-figure established the team to encourage solidarity among straight and queer players. Being also a trans man, he opened his home to the more vulnerable, often homeless queer teenagers.
+ Lili Award nominee
+ Q&A with film director Tommaso Colognese (26/10)
+ Panel after the film about the ‘Inclusion of LGBTQIA+ People in Sports: Understanding the Slow Progress and the Necessity of Separatist Spaces for and within the community’ (28/10)
