Yesterday organizers announced the films that this year are competing for the LGBT award given in the Festival de Cannes and the announcement was made in a magazine called Clap and to our enjoyment, the magazine has some articles about lgbt films from 2015, with a special mention to Sean Baker's Tangerine that the call "rare, unique, work of art celebrating creative, humane and artistic freedom". Suggest you read the articles available in French and English.Among the activities surrounding the award we find the Queer Film Market that will be held on Tuesday, May 17 from 2 to 5 pm; also night "activities" happen at the official queer and open minded club in Cannes, Le Vertigo, open from May 11 to 22, from midnight to dawn.
There are 17 films in the selection, twelve (12) are feature films and five (5) are short films
Feature Films
Official Selection
Competition
Agassi (The Handmaiden), Park Chan-wook, Korea (L)
Aquarius, Klebler Mendonca Filho, Brazil and France
Rester Vertical, Alain Guiraudie, France
The Neon Demon, Nicolas Winding Refn, Denmark, France and USA
Special Screenings
Le Cancre, Paul Vecchiali, France
Un Certain Regard
La Danseuse (The Dancer), Stéphanie Di Giusto, France (L)
Quinzaine des Réalisateurs
Divines, Houda Benyamina,
Fiore, Claudio Giovannesi, Italy and France
Les Vies de Thérèse, Sebastien Lifshitz, France
Semaine de la Critique
Competition
Grave (Raw), Julia Ducournau, France and Belgium
Special Screenings
Apnée, Jean-Christophe Murisse, France
ACID
Willy 1er, Ludovic & Zoran Boukherma, Marielle Gautier and Hugo P. Thomas, France
Short Films
Cinéfondation Selection
In the Hills, Hamid Ahmadi, UK
Gabber Lover, Anna Cazenave Cambet, France
Semaine de la Critique
Le Soldat Vierge (The Virigin Soldier), Erwan Le Duc, France
Prenjak (In the Year of Monkey), Wregas Bhanuteja, Indonesia
Superbia, Luca Tóth, Hungary
Jury
Presidents: Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau, directors, France
Émilie Brisavoine, Director, France
Joao Federici, Festival Director, Brazil
Marie Sauvion, Journalist, France
If you wish to check more about this award go to the award facebook page here.
Check the magazine, Enjoy!!!