Tomboy

🌈PRIDE MONTH  Tomboy – 𝒊𝒏 🇫🇷𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 🇬🇧𝒔𝒖𝒃𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒔

🎬 Date & Time: Tuesday, June 16th, Drinks at 7pm at Tournebride Bar and Screening at 8pm. The screening of “Tomboy” will be preceded by a screening of short film “Chambre 206” in French with English subtitles and introduced by the director Laurie Bisceglia.
📽️ Cinéma: Épée de Bois, 100 Rue Mouffetard, Paris 5
🎟️ Movie Tickets: €5.00 – €9.90 https://achat.cine-epeedebois.fr/reserver/F7426/D1781632800/VF/264944/ 

It’s summer, and 10-year-old Laure is the new kid in town. A tomboy, she decides to introduce herself to the neighborhood crew as Michael. What starts as a daring whim turns into a season of discovery. As Michael, Laure catches the attention of Lisa, and a summer romance begins to bloom. But Laure is playing a high-stakes game, leaning into her new life and hoping the inevitable return to school won’t shatter the world she’s built.

🏳️‍🌈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).

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