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To say that Levan Akin’s experience of making his new film, Crossing, was more tranquil than his previous one, And Then We Danced, is a bit like observing that Manchester’s Canal Street has a more inclusive vibe than Moscow’s Red Square.
Both movies are queer-themed: Crossing follows a retired teacher searching for her transgender niece in Istanbul; And Then We Danced concerns a Georgian ballet dancer inching out of the closet.
I like the idea of making the films that I wanted when I was growing up: hopeful, but not naive.” Crossing, with its tale of slow-dawning inter-generational tolerance, was inspired by a real-life story Akin heard about an older Georgian man whose granddaughter was transgender.
The rest of Crossing is crammed with colourful supporting characters who evoke strong community networks and chosen families, whether it’s the urchins looking out for one another on the streets, or the neighbourhood of trans women to whom Lia turns for assistance.
Akin is now firmly established now as a gay director: And Then We Danced was named best feature at the 2019 LGBTQ+ Iris festival in Cardiff, and Crossing won the Teddy jury award at Berlin this year.
Before then, he had undergone an enviable training period at the studio of Roy Andersson, the idiosyncratic director who made the pastoral A Swedish Love Story before switching to the mordantly funny, absurdist tableaux of Songs from the Second Floor and You, the Living.
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So wanted to register in the national health insurance program as a dependent of his partner, Kim Yong-min, arguing that their union should be treated as a common-law marriage.It said that although Mr. Kim and Mr. So’s union could not be considered a common-law marriage under South Korean laws, they should still qualify for the national health insurance’s dependent coverage.
“I hope today’s ruling will serve as a steppingstone toward enabling sexual minorities to gain equality in the system of marriage,” Mr.
“The case itself is a sobering reminder of the lengthy judicial processes that same-sex couples must endure to secure basic rights that should be universally guaranteed.”
Conservative Christians in South Korea have long campaigned against legalizing same-sex marriage or introducing an anti-discrimination law that protects people of any gender, age, sexual identity or physical ability.
At the turn of the century, only 17 percent of South Koreans were in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage, according to Gallup Korea, a survey company.
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