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Family happiness often hinges on an unsuspected tragedy: the loss of identity of the woman who now lives only in relation to her husband and children. Faced with this "nameless discomfort," Francine (Micheline Lanctôt), a seemingly fulfilled young woman, is forced to leave her family for a while, in an attempt to find out who she is. This film, composed of a dramatized part enriched by document...
What value, whether radiant or destructive, does love hold in women's lives? Does marriage enable them to realize their full potential? Can motherhood be separated from a relationship with a man, or is it a choice to be refused? To shed light on these questions and many others, four women in search of their liberation, belonging to the generation of 28-30-year-olds in the early 1970s, express t...
Backlash: Misogyny in the Digital Age
Duration: 2h40On two continents, four women fall victim to extreme cyber violence: Marion Séclin, a French actress and YouTuber, Laura Boldrini, President of the Italian Parliament, Kiah Morris, an American Democratic representative, and Laurence Gratton, a young Quebecois teacher. Abandoned by law enforcement, the political class, and Web giants who make billions from hatred, they decide to fight back and n...
"You will give birth in pain." Why? Are there other narratives? Because birth does not always rhyme with pain, Crotch stories transmits a new imaginary : women who are on their way to reclaiming their bodies and their labors.
Through a newspaper advertisement, Ruth Beckermann organizes a casting for a film based on a well-known pornographic text. For over a hundred years, the novel _Josefine Mutzenbacher or The Story of a Viennese Whore_ has been the subject of controversy for its lustful depiction of child and female sexuality. Although it was banned for a time, it has also been celebrated as an important work of V...
An anonymous narrator recounts how he met and fell in love with an older man, Frank, who is now HIV-positive on the eve of their 10th anniversary.
My Name Is Annemarie Schwarzenbach
Duration: 2h52A film casting in Paris. Young actresses (and actors) try to incarnate the Swiss writer and traveller Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908-1942). In order to get the role of this emblematic and sulphurous figure of the late 30s, a child of the “lost generation”, antifascist and gay, these actors play scenes of her life, and talk about their own life through the prism of her fascinating and ambiguous p...
A political science fiction film shot as a documentary, _Born in Flames_ takes us to the near future of New York, ten years after the failure of a social revolution. At the call of the Women's Army, several groups of activists finally unite to form a shifting, non-hierarchical network that baffles the FBI. They fought in an explosive atmosphere against a society whose institutions were racist, ...
Twelve Canadian, American and French lesbians of various ages, colours and cultures talk candidly and humorously about the many aspects of the lesbian identity. Far from being dogmatic, this documentary is an upbeat series of standpoints.
Barbara Hammer constructs an autobiography before someone else does it for her in this post-modern sequel to her 1992 cult documentary _Nitrate Kisses_. From her childhood spent being groomed to be the next Shirley Temple to her work as an activist and filmmaker, Hammer takes a wry look at her life and a changing world.
Barbara Hammer weaves striking images of four contemporary gay and lesbian couples with footage of an unearthed, forbidden, and invisible history, searching eroded emulsions and images for lost vestiges of queer culture.
Erotic yet tender, _Dyketactics_ is probably the first film about lesbian love made by a lesbian.
An anonymous narrator recounts how he met and fell in love with an older man, Frank, who is now HIV-positive on the eve of their 10th anniversary.
For decades, the life of American Jazz musician Billy Tipton was framed as the story of an ambitious woman passing as a man in pursuit of a music career. In _No Ordinary Man_, Tipton’s story is re-imagined and performed by trans artists as they collectively paint a portrait of an unlikely hero. Together, the filmmakers join Tipton’s son Billy Jr. to reckon with a complicated and contested legac...
To escape the homophobic reality of their homeland, two Brazilian twin brothers are now living in Europe. The first brother has a perfectly legal status in Brussels, the second is an illegal immigrant and lives like a ghost in Berlin. Set during the 2018 Brazilian elections, the brothers' anguish about the future of their country under the rise of far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro deepens when...
Fos' life and body were governed by her community, her father, her husband. Submissive and silent, that is what was required of her. To better mark this control, she was inflicted with the seal of submission by being circumcised at the age of 6. Fos never wanted to be that woman. Exiled in Belgium, she realizes that the word woman deserves another definition, that a woman has the right to the i...
Anita, Teresa and Valentina have never met. They lived in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s, at different ages and in different cities. But their true stories, recorded in diaries, are part of an ideal continuity, and bear witness to family and political struggles, personal and collective, to assert their autonomy, their identity and their rights in a patriarchal country. *Vogliamo anche le rose* (*...
The making of the "centerfold", the poster of a naked woman in the center of a Playboy magazine, is the object of all the attention. In the magazine's Munich studios, Harun Farocki films the creation of this photograph for four days, from the making of the sets to the obtaining of a convincing shot. This work mobilizes workers, stage managers, decorators, prop makers, make-up artists, models, p...
Yara, A. and brothers Monib & Tariq claim their identities as Muslims from diverse backgrounds by negotiating a space in the LGBTQ+ community and reflecting on their personal beliefs and experiences.
_CAUGHT_ is a documentary using fictional and observational methods to express the struggles for justice of trans Latina women working in the New York City sex industry. The film was made through the collaboration with the TRANSgrediendo Intercultural Collective, a grass root association defending the rights of trans Latina migrant women in Queens, New York City. It is also a tribute to Lorena ...
Family happiness often hinges on an unsuspected tragedy: the loss of identity of the woman who now lives only in relation to her husband and children. Faced with this "nameless discomfort," Francine (Micheline Lanctôt), a seemingly fulfilled young woman, is forced to leave her family for a while, in an attempt to find out who she is. This film, composed of a dramatized part enriched by document...
What value, whether radiant or destructive, does love hold in women's lives? Does marriage enable them to realize their full potential? Can motherhood be separated from a relationship with a man, or is it a choice to be refused? To shed light on these questions and many others, four women in search of their liberation, belonging to the generation of 28-30-year-olds in the early 1970s, express t...
Backlash: Misogyny in the Digital Age
Duration: 2h40On two continents, four women fall victim to extreme cyber violence: Marion Séclin, a French actress and YouTuber, Laura Boldrini, President of the Italian Parliament, Kiah Morris, an American Democratic representative, and Laurence Gratton, a young Quebecois teacher. Abandoned by law enforcement, the political class, and Web giants who make billions from hatred, they decide to fight back and n...
"You will give birth in pain." Why? Are there other narratives? Because birth does not always rhyme with pain, Crotch stories transmits a new imaginary : women who are on their way to reclaiming their bodies and their labors.
Through a newspaper advertisement, Ruth Beckermann organizes a casting for a film based on a well-known pornographic text. For over a hundred years, the novel _Josefine Mutzenbacher or The Story of a Viennese Whore_ has been the subject of controversy for its lustful depiction of child and female sexuality. Although it was banned for a time, it has also been celebrated as an important work of V...
An anonymous narrator recounts how he met and fell in love with an older man, Frank, who is now HIV-positive on the eve of their 10th anniversary.
My Name Is Annemarie Schwarzenbach
Duration: 2h52A film casting in Paris. Young actresses (and actors) try to incarnate the Swiss writer and traveller Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908-1942). In order to get the role of this emblematic and sulphurous figure of the late 30s, a child of the “lost generation”, antifascist and gay, these actors play scenes of her life, and talk about their own life through the prism of her fascinating and ambiguous p...
A political science fiction film shot as a documentary, _Born in Flames_ takes us to the near future of New York, ten years after the failure of a social revolution. At the call of the Women's Army, several groups of activists finally unite to form a shifting, non-hierarchical network that baffles the FBI. They fought in an explosive atmosphere against a society whose institutions were racist, ...
Twelve Canadian, American and French lesbians of various ages, colours and cultures talk candidly and humorously about the many aspects of the lesbian identity. Far from being dogmatic, this documentary is an upbeat series of standpoints.
Barbara Hammer constructs an autobiography before someone else does it for her in this post-modern sequel to her 1992 cult documentary _Nitrate Kisses_. From her childhood spent being groomed to be the next Shirley Temple to her work as an activist and filmmaker, Hammer takes a wry look at her life and a changing world.
Barbara Hammer weaves striking images of four contemporary gay and lesbian couples with footage of an unearthed, forbidden, and invisible history, searching eroded emulsions and images for lost vestiges of queer culture.
Erotic yet tender, _Dyketactics_ is probably the first film about lesbian love made by a lesbian.
An anonymous narrator recounts how he met and fell in love with an older man, Frank, who is now HIV-positive on the eve of their 10th anniversary.
For decades, the life of American Jazz musician Billy Tipton was framed as the story of an ambitious woman passing as a man in pursuit of a music career. In _No Ordinary Man_, Tipton’s story is re-imagined and performed by trans artists as they collectively paint a portrait of an unlikely hero. Together, the filmmakers join Tipton’s son Billy Jr. to reckon with a complicated and contested legac...
To escape the homophobic reality of their homeland, two Brazilian twin brothers are now living in Europe. The first brother has a perfectly legal status in Brussels, the second is an illegal immigrant and lives like a ghost in Berlin. Set during the 2018 Brazilian elections, the brothers' anguish about the future of their country under the rise of far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro deepens when...
Fos' life and body were governed by her community, her father, her husband. Submissive and silent, that is what was required of her. To better mark this control, she was inflicted with the seal of submission by being circumcised at the age of 6. Fos never wanted to be that woman. Exiled in Belgium, she realizes that the word woman deserves another definition, that a woman has the right to the i...
Anita, Teresa and Valentina have never met. They lived in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s, at different ages and in different cities. But their true stories, recorded in diaries, are part of an ideal continuity, and bear witness to family and political struggles, personal and collective, to assert their autonomy, their identity and their rights in a patriarchal country. *Vogliamo anche le rose* (*...
The making of the "centerfold", the poster of a naked woman in the center of a Playboy magazine, is the object of all the attention. In the magazine's Munich studios, Harun Farocki films the creation of this photograph for four days, from the making of the sets to the obtaining of a convincing shot. This work mobilizes workers, stage managers, decorators, prop makers, make-up artists, models, p...
Yara, A. and brothers Monib & Tariq claim their identities as Muslims from diverse backgrounds by negotiating a space in the LGBTQ+ community and reflecting on their personal beliefs and experiences.
_CAUGHT_ is a documentary using fictional and observational methods to express the struggles for justice of trans Latina women working in the New York City sex industry. The film was made through the collaboration with the TRANSgrediendo Intercultural Collective, a grass root association defending the rights of trans Latina migrant women in Queens, New York City. It is also a tribute to Lorena ...