Fri 27 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
MAMAN, QUE MAN — France — 1982 — 50'
A lament for a mother’s death, Maman que man avoids confession, memory, and nostalgia—eschewing any verbose slide into psychology or self-analysis. Around the beautiful and tender figure of Didier Hercend, intense blocks of emotion, fury, and noise crystallize. Unforgettable moments strike us: the poignant appearance of Copi as a dazed and weary alcoholic; Michel Cressol as a flamboyant bar queen. This is a farewell to lost children, childhood fragments, and Baudelairean hymns to death: “it is death that consoles, alas! and makes life possible…”—but here, delivered in rage and fury, carried by the film’s own writing and style, pulsing with an invincible vitality.
—René Schérer
Lionel Soukaz
Nu Lacté — France — 2002 — 10'
Othello Vilgard, Xavier Baert, and Lionel Soukaz filmed a performance by Tom de Pékin: one strips bare, while the others expose and conceal the film stock itself.
