Of the 60 or so flicks showing at this year's World Film Festival of Bangkok, seven focus on gay and lesbian issues. This sixth edition of the fest, held at Paragon Cineplex from October 24 to November 2, opens with "A Moment in June" by emerging filmmaker O Nathapon.

Starring Shakrit Yannarm and Sinitta Boonyasak, the story features six characters' lives, the song that links them together, a train station and life-changing decisions.

Meanwhile, gay Muslim Parvez Sharma depicts the life struggles of Muslim gays and lesbians in his documentary "A Jihad for Love".

Hector Babenco's "Kiss of the Spider Woman" tells the story of cellmates in a Latin American prison. William Hurt plays Luis Molina, a gay window-dresser jailed on a morals charge, while Valentin (Raul Julia) is a leftwing journalist accused of subversive activities.

The four movies in the "Retrospective to Derek Jarman" programme include "The Angelic Conversation", punk drama "Jubilee" and "Caravaggio". That leaves Isaac Julien's biographic documentary "Derek", written and narrated by Tilda Swinton and selected for this year's Sundance and Berlin film festivals.