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134 screenings of LGBT+ short and feature films are on the program for the 18th edition of the Des images aux mots festival, from January 24 to February 2, in Toulouse.
Although it is the age of carelessness, the Des Images aux mots (DIAM) festival is no less vigilant in respecting everyone in the dignity of their sexual orientation. Attentive to developments in society, it has been supported for 18 years by the collective energy of a passionate team which has been able to renew itself.
“Independent cinema conceals the talents of women, queers, racialized people, people with disabilities, it is enough to create a large community of film buffs and build links of kindness and mutual aid for them to appear on the screens of our cinema partners who are following us in this adventure”, comment the organizers grouped in an association of twelve volunteers, chaired by Anne-Catherine Mezure. “LGBTQIA + cinema is no longer amateur, niche cinema like in 2007, when the festival was created. It is a cinema of quality, reflection, diversity and inclusion. So DIAM is happy to show these artists, to introduce them to the public, to translate their works and to subtitle them to make them accessible.
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International films and guests
Cinema is also a way of emerging from the invisibility that some would like to impose with film screenings in seven Toulouse theaters from the ABC to the Cratère, via the Pathé Wilson.
Among DIAM’s international guests will be the Bulgarian director Hristo Todorov, the screenwriter and director Clémentine Decremps who lives in Berlin, the Spanish transgender actor Ivan Vigara and the Brazilian director João Candido Zacharias.
Several evenings will allow the debate or show to be mixed with screenings such as “Minima et les drags”, Saturday January 25 at 8:30 p.m., at the Pathé Wilson cinema with the show by Minima Gesté, draq queen star of the documentary by Alexis Taillant, screened following.
