Identifying with the queer community means embracing one’s desires and leaning on networks of belonging, spaces where it becomes possible to exist freely and fully. This program explores these pockets of safety and liberation, where one can love, dance, reinvent oneself, and confront adversity. In Aliens in Beirut, the passionate encounter between two lovers gives rise to a burning intensity, unfolding into a romantic drama where desire resists even the greatest obstacles. From this impossible love story, we move to the tenderness of Todos los nombres empiezan con M, where a trans woman reconnects with her mother after years of separation, revealing a bond shaped by resilience and unconditional love. More intimate in tone, On tire pas sur une plante pour qu’elle pousse follows two friends over the course of a summer in the Gaspé Peninsula, as they reflect on the body, transmasculinity, and self-discovery in a regional context. Freedom and self-affirmation also emerge through collective and subversive spaces. In Luz Diabla, Martin is overtaken by hallucinations on the edge of the supernatural, as electronic music blends with reality, desire, and the fear of being pursued. Grittier and more radical, Bleifrei 95 explores cruising culture within a group of lesbians, revealing complex and still-unexplored dynamics of friendship and sexuality. Together, these films resonate with a plurality of queer experiences, at once vulnerable and powerful, and remind us how cinema and identity nourish one another, opening up worlds where it becomes possible to dream, love, and exist freely.

In the presence of Diversité 02

* Screened as part of a double feature with the program Shoot No Matter What