The Filministes Festival, which focuses on women and less representative in the film industry, will begin this Wednesday night. Until May 12, the public will be able to discover the brave works online and at Ausgang Plaza, in Montreal, just like the film. For the last timeby Olympe de G., a fiction on the theme of feminist pornography.
Shown on Friday at Cinéma L’Amour on a night reserved for 18 years and over, this feature film by the French director tells the story of Salomé, 69, who decided to plan his disappearance, as well as the last time he will love. . The film stars Brigitte Lahaie, an actress and radio host who was one of the first stars of French pornographic cinema in the 1970s and 1980s.
The film’s explicit scenes were shot with respect to the ideals of feminist pornography, which is different from mainstream porn. by shifting perspectives from traditional situationsaccording to Filminists.
Olympe is a director who is very involved at this level; everything about filming as consent, the inclusion of queer or non -binary people. She is really sex positive.explained Gabrielle Doré, co-artistic and general director of Festival Filministes.
The screening of the film will be followed by a discussion with the director, supervised by Antoine Damiens.
An opening night dedicated to the Black Lives Matter movement
For its opening night, Wednesday night at Monument-National in Montreal, the festival will showcase the documentary No mercyby Ashley O’Shay, who follows two activists from the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement in their fight for recognition of the rights of black people.
This session aims to draw similarities between the American context presented in the document and the BLM movement in Quebec, and to reflect on the area occupied by women and non-binary people there.explanation by the Filministes team in a press release.
The festival program includes five feature films from here and elsewhere, the feminist pornography feature film For the last timefive thematic blocks with a total of 45 short films and, before this year, an evening of music video.
Hosted by Marilou Caravecchia-Pelletier, tonight’s titled Roule-moi l’clip will be shown at Ausgang Plaza on Friday at 10 pm The event focuses on the art of music video, an art form sidelined by the festival team .
Notice also the presentation on Sunday night, at Ausgang Plaza, by Dance in the raindirected by Rachelle Roy in 2020. In this film, this woman from Abitibi-Témiscamingue documents, using her cell phone, her daily life as a mother with breast cancer.
The complete program of the Festival Filministes is available online (New window).
This text was written froman interview conducted by Catherine Richercultural columnist on the show 15-18. Comments may have been edited for clarity or brevity.
Source: Radio-Canada
