Shorts in Queer: "young lesbian creation"
Session preceded by an exchange with filmmakers
AMELIA STARLIGHT
Laura Thomassaint • France • 2024 • 21 min • Emmanuelle Béart, Antonia Buresi, Mathilde Forget
More than fifteen years have elapsed since Amelia Starlight, a figure in the French song, brutally withdrew away from TV sets and concert halls. Tonight, in a famous talkshow, France finds it for a very special live.
KOTOWARI ≡.
de Coralie Watanabe Prosper
France • 2024 • 22 min • with Rei Watanabe, Isaline Prévost-Radeff, Habib Labidi
After two and a half years of waiting, Saki, Japanese, and his French wife Tom, went to the prefecture to finally withdraw the first Saki residence card. A hard day comes to the service of foreigners.
STRANGER
of Iris Chassaigne and Jehnny Beth
France • 2023 • 18 min • with Jehnny Beth, Agathe Rousselle, Finnegan Oldfield
It's been five hundred and forty-eight days since A doesn't feel anything, that she is absent from her life. One night, J appears and trains him with her, seeking by all means to revive her heart. Stranger is a musical fable, the story of a return to life.
THE RULES
de Lou Zidi
France • 2025 • 14 min (6 episodes of 2 min 20) • avec Audrey Baldassare, Camille Giry, Amandine Lourdel, Sarah Lélé, Alexandra Bialy, Jordan Topenas
In the near future, an authoritarian regime deprives women of their rights, including laughter. In secret, a group of resistors creates a secret comedy club, “Les Rieuses”, hidden in the cellar of a dry cleaner. They use humour as a great power to fight against patriarchal oppression.
ROMY AND LAURE...
by Romy Alizée and Laure Giappiconi
France • 2019 • 6 min
Between fine parts with their gang of super girlfriends, casual Boys-Cadeaux and Amazonian explorations, life runs quietly for Laure and Romy... But one evening she faces a mysterious terrorizing apparition: a man.
Within the framework ofWeekend of lesbian visibility
In the image of our sublime 2025 poster created by Romy Alizée, In✱ has decided, once it is not customary, to celebrate the “Lesbian genius” on the occasion of a weekend entirely dedicated to the visibility of creation and lesbian artists. Projections, literary meetings, round tables, clown show, readings and workshops are on the agenda of this moment dedicated to women who love women.