Paris Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
December 4 - 9 (France)
The 7th Paris Gay and Lesbian Film Festival of Paris will be kicking off December 4 - 9 at the Forum des Images with almost 30 films comprised of features, shorts, documentaries and avant-premieres showing the vivacity and originality of filmmaking within the gay and lesbian international community. Director of Madonna's breakthrough film Desperately Seeking Susan, American filmmaker Susan Seidelman's Gaudi Afternoon will be the opening night film. Canadian filmmaker Noam Gonick's Hey Happy will be the Closing Night event.
This year's festival will include meetings with filmmakers presenting their works including the highly acclaimed American documentary filmmaker Sandi S. Dubowski's Trembling Before G-D.
One of the pioneers of gay cinema in France, Lionel Soukaz, will be given "carte blanche" with a retrospective of his work including censored short films and forbidden or unedited films that will be (re)discovered in restored copies. Lionel Soukaz will be present at the Forum des images.
2001 Gay Feature Films
Lan Yu and I by Stanley Kwan
The Broken Hearts Club by Greg Berlanti
Oi! Warning by Dominik & Benjamin Reding
Tableau de famille (Le Fate Ignoranti) by Ferzan Ozpetek
Tarik El Hob by Rémi Lange
2001 Lesbian Feature Films
Chutney Popcorn by Nisha Ganatra
Incidental Journey by Jofei Chen
The Story of Pupu by Wanatabe Kensaki
Documentaries:
Trembling Before G-d by Sandy S. Dubowski
Escape to Life by Andrea Weiss
Southern Comfort by Kate Davis
Gay Short Films:
Back Room by Guillem Morales
Late Summer by David Ottenhouse
La revanche du ballon rouge by Gregg Rossen
Puta de Oros by Miguel Crespi Traveria
War Story by John Baumgartner
Lesbian Short Films:
4 p.m. by Samantha Bakhurst & Lea Morement
Atomic Saké by Louise Archambault
Forbidden Fruit by Sue Maluwa-Bruce
The Tell-Tale Vibrator by Jill Chamberlain
Watching You by Stéphanie Abramovich
AIDS/GAYS: What images in 2001?
HIV Rollercoaster/AIDS by Paul Lang
Sea In The Blood by Richard Fung
SEX/LESBIANS:
Sugar High Glitter City by Shar Rednour & Jackie Strano
28.11.2001 | Editor's blog
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