Projection du film - 120 BPM (2017)

PRIDE MONTH 120 BPM – in fr with en subtitles

Date & Time: Monday, June 22th, Drinks at 7pm and Screening at 8pm Cinéma: Cinéma du Panthéon, 13 rue Victor-Cousin, Paris 5 Movie Tickets: €5.40 – €9.90

Paris, the early 90s. With AIDS already claiming lives for a decade, the activists of Act Up-Paris ramp up their direct-action protests to shatter a wall of public indifference. Amidst the chaos of meetings and demonstrations, newcomer Nathan finds his world upended by Sean—a veteran of the group whose radical passion and defiance change everything.

Queer French Film Series-Program Note

Notes on the History of French Queer Cinema: https://nostalgiaandliquor.substack.com/p/queer-french-cinema-a-historical

The history of French queer cinema is rich and diverse. During June 2026 in Paris—Pride Month—Lost in Frenchlation presents a series of films dedicated to French queer culture and lives. The series showcases a range of films from leading queer French-speaking filmmakers. Time-honored filmmakers such as Céline Sciamma, Christophe Honoré, Alain Guiraudie, Robin Campbillo, Julia Ducournau and Xavier Dolan are included in the program along with a new generation of French queer filmmakers such as Anna Cazenave Cambet and Hafsia Herzi. Through dramas and comedies, their films explore lesbian relationships, trans lives, “coming-out,” AIDS, and the pleasures of being queer.

The Queer French Film Series is funded, in part, by the City University of New York’s Research Foundation.

Bio

David A. Gerstner is Professor of Cinema Studies at the City University of New York. In 2024, he was awarded Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He is the author of Queer Imaginings: On Writing and Cinematic Friendship (2023).