For 25 years, lesbians have been making movies, and Cineffable has been screening lesbian and feminist struggles and life as seen and directed by women filmmakers.

Once again this year, we'll get you pumping your fists in pride at being lesbians!

We'll be focusing on our cultural and activist heritage, including 2 special "25th Anniversary" screenings: the cult classic Go Fish plus a selection of off-beat short films.

Two screenings in particular: Lesbiennes en marche * ("Lesbians on the Move") and Deux mères ("Two Mothers") honor this landmark year in our organisation's history.

Plenty of other screenings - including Pionnières *, Passionate Politics, Lesbiennes de tout temps *, Jasad * and more - present lesbian and feminist struggles past and present.

And we are all Wonder Women !!! *, right? So let's focus on on-going struggles, especially those concerning violence against women (Respect *) and for trans-gendered people's rights (A Self-Made Man, Facing Mirrors).

Then let yourself be transported by an exceptional selection of films from Kenya and the Middle East (Kung Fu Grandma, Graceland Girls, Quest for Honor and more).

We invite you to attend Cineffable's first conferences decrypting lesbian invisibility on (French) TV and everything you ever wanted to know about G-spot and female ejaculation!

And finally, all you eager beavers won't want to miss Camp Beaverton *!

* Screenings followed by a discussion with the filmmaker or someone involved with the issue addressed in the film.

Special Transmission screenings Last year, for the first time, we proposed a "Transmission Screening"... programming that went back to our roots, (re)introducing films and directors from the earliest editions of the festival, with themes that look back over cinema by and for lesbians. For this 25th anniversary edition, we are proposing 4 Transmission screenings because 25 years is a big deal!

Shorts but cult! Festival opening session, Wednesday, October 30, 7:30 p.m. 25 years, 25 short films, well ... not quite 25, or it would have been too long. We have unearthed the treasures that have lit up the past quarter century of lesbian cinema at Cineffable. So if you want to see how electricity, a cow, an orgasm, a plane, an inflatable pool, a key in an umbrella holder, three funny lesbians and four contemplative Norwegians, a tent, a baby, female movers, World War I, panties in an aquarium and more can turn lesbians' lives upside down, join us. You won't be disappointed by this dyke-vintage screening! Plus, we are proud to announce the exceptional presence at the festival of The Hungry Hearts, who will thrill you with the international lesbian anthem In Your Face! Long and cult! Go Fish, Friday, November 1, 10 p.m. Come see (again) the 1994 cult movie Go Fish, by Rose Troche, who was also a writer and director for The L Word for three seasons! You will enjoy getting inside the lives of five women, their dates, clothing problems, endless nights, dreams and love lives... "Elles sapphichent" ("The Sappho Show"), Saturday, November 2, 2:30 p.m. A must-see event: Catherine Gonnard and Elisabeth Lebovici give us a guided tour to lesbian presence on French TV in the 1950s and 60s. The Basics, Sunday, November 3, 2:30 p.m. The earliest editions of the "Quand les lesbiennes se font du cinéma" festival gave the lioness's share to experimental films. Some 80% (or so) of the films selected were non-narrative, non-traditional fiction. These inventive movies experimented with new ways of representing female bodies and were particularly creative in their approach to the medium of film and its formal features: framing, speed (speeding up and slowing down, flickering etc.), light and shadow, de-synchronization of image and sound, photograms, cutting the celluloid, scratching the surface emulsion, painted films made without cameras, found footage and more... For this second Transmission screening, we have selected three directors who were key to those early editions of Cineffable: Vivian Ostrovsky, Martine Rousset and Marcelle Thirache. For all those who remember their work - and all those who have never seen it - this is your chance to enjoy these Cineffable directors' stylistic freedom, as well as to see some of their more recent films, which are poetical, funny and sensual. We have chosen short, 4- to 14-minute films - both speaking and silent - that together compose a one-hour program leave plenty of time for a Q & A with the directors to discuss their past and cur-rent work. All these films are distributed by Light Cone (a film distribution company, diffusion and conservation of experimental film, created in 1982 in Paris). They will be projected in digital version.