Thu 26 June 2025
Cinema Aventure — 19:00
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of our festival, we are thrilled to partner with our long-time friends from Pink Screens for two special screenings at cinema Aventure.
Thanks to our favorite queer film festival, we pay tribute to the groundbreaking experimental filmmaker Lionel Soukaz (FR, 1953-2025), presenting a rare selection of his bold, subversive works. A pioneer of queer cinema in France, Soukaz blends radical politics with poetic form, challenging norms and pushing cinematic boundaries. These rarely seen films offer a unique glimpse into the life and vision of a true iconoclast, making this tribute an unmissable highlight of our anniversary programme.
Screenings will be presented by friend and collaborator of Lionel Soukaz, the filmmaker Stéphane Gérard.
Lionel Soukaz
IXE — France — 1980 — 48'
“IXE is an imploded, crucified film: at the four cardinal points, at the four ends of the cross—war, sex, religion, and drugs. Through overlays, flashes barely registered by the eye, and clever repetitions of themes, we’re reminded that sex is also a war of bodies, and the pope, the opiate of the people. And through the story of a young man who injects himself to experience the full horror of the world as seen on his television screen, we realize the syringe is the subjective vanishing point of the monsters of the modern unconscious.”
—Guy Hocquenghem, CrucifiX, 1980
Lionel Soukaz
THE SEX OF ANGELS — France — 1977 — 39'
Bruno is a minor. The teenage boy, longing for affection and a kind of love that goes beyond family and country, is denied it—especially when such love is marked as shameful. In response to the “images of the nation,” Bruno confronts them with his dreams and fantasies—with his “imagination.” The angels have sex, and they use it for their happiness. Bruno says this is good, and ascends to heaven.
