All together, we create a major event in the lesbian world: the PARIS INTERNATIONAL LESBIAN & FEMINIST FILM FESTIVAL: Quand les lesbiennes se font du cinéma, your festival darling, is back!
PARIS INTERNATIONAL
LESBIAN & FEMINIST FILM FESTIVAL
Quand les lesbiennes se font du cinéma
All together, we create a major event in the lesbian world: the PARIS INTERNATIONAL LESBIAN & FEMINIST FILM FESTIVAL: Quand les lesbiennes se font du cinéma, your festival darling, is back!
Since 2010 saw the unfortunate passing of an abbreviated festival, in 2011 we are reviving the 5-day long tradition!!!
To celebrate, the programming committee is bringing the bacon!!
There are no fewer than 60 films, seven of which are full-length fiction films (Argentina, Iran, USA, Brazil, Israel, Hong Kong), a dozen are full-length documentaries and three sessions of short films like you love it!
Because there is only one theater this year, festival goers can see ALL of the films…however, performances only occur once.
So get out your pens and schedules!
To help you decide, here are some festival options...
 Saturday night, our opening show will start with a concert by Kadja Nsé, who takes inspiration from colorful soul, blues, folk, reggae, and African music. Her music is testament to the Afro-European identity. She will be accompanied by Narjess on percussion before the screening of All About Love by Ann Hui (Hong Kong), which is a light, full-length film about LGBT parenting. 
Screening as a preview and with one of the actresses present, Circumstance recounts the aspirations of Iranian youth through the eyes of a young lesbian confronted by intolerance and repression. Circumstance was written and directed by American-Iranian Maryam Keshavarz. |
 The difficulty of reconciling tradition and modernity is at the heart of Three Veils, directed by Rolla Selbak, who will be present at the festival. The film depicts the lives of three young Muslim American women, who share their identities, their faiths and their sexuality.   Among the other great options available, you can meet several of the team from Jan's Coming Out or even Veronica Kedar, an actress and director of Joe+Belle, the first full-length, lesbian, Israeli film of the Thelma and Louise, Rock-n-Roll genre! |
 Just as good are 3 sessions of short films waiting for you! A special Halloween session of films from Australia include Cupcake: A Zombie Lesbian Musical, The Kiss and Vigilant! Healthy! Wholesome!, which are part of the traditional « courts sans frontières » ("Short Without Borders") session.  There's also a focus on LGBT parenting in the documentary (Tout l'amour que j'ai pour toi) and fiction films (A Child, Birthday and Recessive).  |
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You still want more? We have a session of documentaries completely dedicated to Muslim women across the world, one of which brings us to Iran in the film Lion Women by Gry Winther, who retraces the engagements of a group of Muslim women. |
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A second feminist theme appears via films from Africa and Asia. Women combat against social injustice (Lesbian Factory by Susan Chen), sexual violence (Variety Survival Talkshow by Se-Young Jo) and psychology (Grace, Milly, Lucy... Child Soldiers by Raymonde Provencher) which still destroy these continents. |
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For more lighter fare, a session is dedicated to lesbian musicians and to their work in a regrouping of clips and a documentary Le Tigre On Tour by Kerthy Fix, filmed during the last wave of electro punk. Another session is consecrated to the documentary by Chriss Lag, Louis(e) de Ville : portrait of a bad girl!. Using interviews, extracts from spectacles and performances, the film follows the path of this burlesque American artist. You can cross her on the Parisian and European scène. You can ask the director and Louis(e) de Ville all of your questions at this session. |
 
Cineffable revives the Séance Q this year: you can see Much More Pussy! by Emilie Jouvet, which is the X-rated version of the film Too Much Pussy! Feminists Sluts in The Queer X Show, a road film already out in movie theaters this summer.Lastly,, Cineffable is breaking new ground! We offer you a bit of relaxation by screening the 1st season of Plan V, an Argentinian, lesbian web-series abounding in humour and emotional twists!!! |
| Communiqué from Cineffable After a long debate, a majority of volunteers present at Cineffable's plenary meeting on 18 September, 2011, decided:
- to keep the grant provided by the cultural service of the Israeli embassy in France to pay for the Israeli woman filmmaker's trip to France to attend the festival, - to remove the logo of the Israeli embassy from the animated list of partners that flashes up on Cineffable's homepage insofar as the embassy is not a partner of the festival per se, but is offering financial assistance to an Israeli filmmaker, - to place the logo of the Israeli embassy on the page that presents the film, and to provide the following information: "with the financial participation of the cultural service of the Israeli embassy in France for the filmmaker's trip to France". The discussion confirmed the group's intention to organize, as has been planned for several months, an internal seminar offering our members a chance to reflect upon and debate various topics, including the modalities of our partnerships, and financial participation in the organization. Paris, September 18, 2011 |
