For the 5th edition of In&Out, Les Ouvreurs invite curious minds to continue, in the darkened theaters, the recently opened debate in France about the family. Over eleven days, the festival will offer numerous films, documentaries (Carps Swim Upstream with Courage and Perseverance and Born Father) and fictions (Mother Tongue and Gayby) providing insights on this singular and multifaceted issue.
Other key themes structure the program:
Filmmaker Sébastien Lifshitz will come to present his multi-award-winning films The Invisibles and Bambi in a special preview. It is a great honor for us to receive on this occasion Marie-Pierre Pruvot, the magnificent Bambi.
Filmmaker Philippe Vallois will take us back to the origins of French gay cinema (Johan, Diary of a Homosexual) and will come to present his book, The Passion According to Philippe Vallois, co-written with Yvan Mitifiot, the director of the Écrans Mixtes festival in Lyon.
Filmmaker Florence Mary (Carps Swim Upstream with Courage and Perseverance) and Caroline Mécary, a lawyer specialized in homoparentality issues, will come to discuss Medically Assisted Reproduction (PMA) and Surrogacy (GPA).
A focus dedicated to young American cinema around the work of Travis Mathews (controversial director of Interior. Leather Bar and I Want Your Love) and Adam Brown (sensitive author of Five Dances and Soldier Romeo).
Documentaries will be more numerous, notably to discuss the situation of gays in Africa (Call Me Kuchu), the struggles of the Femen (Our Breasts, Our Weapons), or the gay activist Vito Russo, author of the best-seller on the representation of homosexuality in Hollywood, The Celluloid Closet (Vito).
Premieres (Alata, Leave It On the Floor, The Last Time I Saw Macao) and unreleased films (The Sex of Angels, Joshua Tree 1951: A Portrait of James Dean, Margarita) selected at the biggest international festivals.
The troupe of La Semeuse will once again perform The Vagina Monologues, following last year’s immense success.
And also, filmmaker Lionel Soukaz, for a photography exhibition 100 Polaroids. Writer Pierre Guéry for a reading/performance of his book HP 1999. Alexandre Idier, a sociologist of the decriminalization of homosexuality for a special evening at L’Eclat.
For more information: https://www.inoutfestival2013.com
