East Palace, West Palace (1996)

Storyline:

East Palace, West Palace 1996 In China, homosexuality isnt illegal, but homosexuals are routinely persecuted by police and arrested for hooliganism The film focuses on a young gay writer A Lan who, being attracted to a young policeman, manages to have himself interrogated for a whole night His life story which he tells during the interrogation reflects the general repression of the Chinese society The policemans attitude shifts from the initial revulsion to fascination and, finally, to attraction