China Dolls (1998)

Where does voguing come from, and what, exactly, is throwing shade? This landmark documentary provides a vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through the eyes of New York City's African American and Latinx Harlem drag-ball scene. Made over seven years, PARIS IS BURNING offers an intimate portrait of rival fashion "houses," from fierce contests for trophies to house mothers offering sustenance in a world rampant with homophobia, transphobia, racism, AIDS, and poverty. Featuring legendary voguers, drag queens, and trans women — including Willi Ninja, Pepper LaBeija, Dorian Corey, and Venus Xtravaganza.

脳卒中で倒れた堅物の元警官ウォルト。「リハビリに効く」という歌のレッスンのために彼が嫌々頼んだのは、隣人のドラッグ・クイーン歌手、ラスティだった。毎日喧嘩を繰り返しながらも、やがて2人の間には奇妙な友情が芽生え始める……。そして、マフィアの抗争に巻き込まれてしまったラスティを助けだすために立ちあがったウォルトだが……。

Soft boys by day, kings by night. The film follows a group of young Bulgarian Roma who come to Vienna looking for freedom and a quick buck. They sell their bodies as if that's all they had. What comforts them, so far from home, is the feeling of being together. But the nights are long and unpredictable.

This is the story of two male prostitutes who want to become professional actors and how they struggle to get into show business.

A short film recounting the travels of a lonely astronaut confronted by the unknown. Unfolding as a mystery, it becomes a carefully subtle, autobiographical examination of the feeling of loneliness and the existential issue of not understanding life on earth and ones place among it.