All Shall Be Well

This year's Teddy Award laureate for best LGBTQ+ feature (awarded since 1987 at the Berlin Film Festival). Pat and Angie are in their sixties, spending half their lives together, living in a typical cramped but cozy and loving apartment in Hong Kong. They are surrounded by supportive friends, and spend Christmas with Pat's family, who call Angie 'second grandmother.' However, if one of them passes away, will they remain a family? Or will greed take over, fueled by inheritance issues? These are questions that many (not just) queer people think about, and All Shall Be Well does not offer easy answers. Director Ray Yeung, like in his previous film Suk Suk (available on VOD New Horizons), again lovingly portrays the romantic relationship of seniors, while pointing out the threats that may lie in wait. Hence, All Shall Be Well may resemble Filippo Meneghetti's My Two, but it also has something of the best films of the Taiwanese New Wave: charm and warmth with a critical hidden undercurrent diagnosing a society guided by the unforgiving principles of capitalism.