Paris (AFP)
Activist documentaries, fiction featuring gay, lesbian or transgender characters and a host of short films: the Chéries Chéris festival celebrates its 25th anniversary from Saturday in Paris, with a spotlight on the creation Brazilian.
Five Brazilian films - the documentaries "Indianara", already presented in Cannes, "Maria Luiza", on the first person openly transgender in the history of the Brazilian armed forces, "Tremor Ie" and the fiction "45 days away from you" and "Socrates" - will be presented to show the vitality of Brazilian cinema and its sensitivity to LGBTQI issues (lesbian, gay, bi, trans, queer, intersex).
By welcoming some 15,000 spectators last year, the Chéries Chéries festival is the first in terms of attendance in Paris, according to its organizers.
This year, in the three MK2 partner cinemas, 130 films will be screened, including Laurent Micheli's long-awaited "Lola vers la mer", a road trip between a transgender girl (Mya Bollaers) and her father (Benoît Magimel). has not seen for two years.
Already successfully presented at the festival of Angouleme, this film will open the competition Chéries Cheris Tuesday night, before going out in theaters mid-December.
Filippo Meneghetti's French film "Deux", about a senior lesbian couple, will close the festival on November 26th.
The festival-goers will also be able to enjoy the documentary on the transidentitarian journey of the comedian Ocean, "5B" on the first unit for AIDS patients in the United States, the documentary on the search for its origins by the fashion designer Olivier Rousteing, born under X ("Wonder boy", already broadcast on Canal +, theaters in late November).
From Saturday, the time will be the documentaries "activists" on social issues such as feminism, homoparentality by the PMA or the GPA ...
Chéris Chérie was created in 1994, "as an urgency to make the LGBT community visible", inspired by the Teddy Awards, the LGBT awards of the Berlinale.
If a few years ago the big studios were reluctant to show their films during the festival, the deal has changed a lot since, with the first French of "Call me by your name" in 2017 then "La Favorite" in 2018, eight times nominated for Oscar.
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