First film festival in Paris and first LGBT film festival in France in terms of attendance and programming volume, the International Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans and ++++ Paris Film Festival Chéries-Chéris has become over the years an unmissable cultural and artistic event. Chéries-Chéris offers its audience the best of film production - special screenings, fiction, documentaries and new short films - dealing with homosexuality and transidentity.
Grégory Tilhac, Artistic Director of the Festival observes: "For 28 years now, Chéries-Chéris gives visibility, an echo to all struggles for LGBTQI+ dignity and pride, whether individual or collective, and is an essential moment of rallying, celebrating and representing these struggles. It also reflects the tremendous diversity and creativity of LGBTQI+ cinema. Everywhere, filmmakers, their teams and those they film, struggle to question prejudice, to push back intolerance with courage and sincerity (...) read the rest of the editorial
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For this new edition, the public will be able to discover new works from around the world. About forty nationalities are represented (France, Ireland, Poland, Finland, Argentina, Brazil, Australia, Morocco, Lebanon, Egypt, Colombia, Turkey, Taiwan, Japan, Iran, Sudan, Pakistan, Rwanda and Indonesia.
Opening and Closing Ceremonies
The high school student
The high school student by Christophe Honoré (2022) with Paul Kircher, Best Performance Award at the 2022 San Sebastian International Film Festival and Juliette Binoche, photo © JeanLouisFernandez
The Immensità
The immensità by Emanuele Crialese, presented in competition at the Venice Film Festival 2022. The Italian filmmaker stages Andrea (Luana Giuliani) as his double teenager and pays tribute to his own mother played by Penélope Cruz © Angelo Turetta
Creation of the prize "Libertés Chéries"
In many countries LGBTQI+ people are poorly accepted. In order to meet the realities experienced by LGBTQI+ citizens in these countries where freedoms are restricted, to also encourage the production and distribution of films, "Chéries-Chéris" and the NGO Solidarité internationale LGBTQI+ (SIL) created this year the "Libertés Chéries" awardFive documentaries and five fictions are presented in competition.
Joyland, film directed by Saim Sadiq with Rasti Farooq, Sarwat Gilani (2022). The film won the "Queer Palm", an LGBT award and Jury Prize: a certain look in May in Cannes, Joyland will represent Pakistan at the next Oscars © Noruz Films, Film Manufacturers Dr
Documentaries : Mouth sewn de Anicée Gohar (Egypt), The art of sin by Ibrahim Mursal (Norway/Sudan), Nun of your business by Ivana Marinić Kragić (Croatia), Silent love of Marek Kozakiewicz (Poland), Travesia Travesti by Nicolás Videla (Chile).
Fictions. Camila will be out tonight by Inés María Barrionuevo (Argentina), Joyland from Saim Sadiq (Pakistan), The Damned do not cry from Fyzal Boulifa (France, Belgium, Morocco), Our fears and our hopes by Łukasz Ronduda & Łukasz Gutt (Poland) A Varón by Fabián Hernández (Colombia).
Four juries participate in the festival
Feature film jury, short film jury, documentary jury and the Libertés Chéries jury
Event sessions
All the programming of the Event Sessions
Animals, film by Nabil Ben Yadir (Belgium) 2022, co-produced by Luc & Jean Pierre Dardenne. The director is inspired by a true story: the homophobic murder of Ihsane Jarfi that took place in Liège in 2012.
Soufiane Chilah © photo of the film Animals, director of photography: Frank Van Den Eeden dr
Special sessions
Wealth: Cambio de Sexo, Glitter, Forget Cheyenne, Madam SÃT, carte blanche at the Arab World Institute 1 and 2 (this programme is part of the exhibition "Habibi, the revolutions of love" to theIMA until 19 February 2023), carte blanche to Hugo Bardin.
The whole programming : Feature Fiction Competition, Fiction panorama, documentary competition, short film competition
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