Launched in 1994, the Chéries Chéris festival has gradually established itself as a key event in LGBTQ+ culture. Today, it’s one of the biggest LGBT film festivals in Europe. After a highly acclaimed 2023 edition, the event will once again feature a selection of films, documentaries and shorts on LGBTQ+ topics in 2024.
From November 15 to 26, the festival will take over the MK2 Beaubourg, MK2 Bibliothèque and MK2 Quai de Seine cinemas in Paris, for 12 days of queer cinema. The organizers will reveal the program for this 30th edition in a month’s time, but have already unveiled the official poster on their Instagram.
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The film The Summer With Carmen won the Grand Prix at the Festival Chéries-Chéris in 2023.
In 2023, the Chéries Chéris Festival jury included drag queen Cookie Kunty and screenwriter Nadine Lamari. French-Congolese journalist, poet and writer Douce Dibondo and author Pierre Niedergang were also on the panel.
In 2023, The Summer With Carmen by Greek director Zacharias Mavroeidis took the Grand Prix , while Babatunde Apalowo’s All the Colours of the World are Between Black and White and On The Go by Spanish directors Julia de Castro and María Gisèle Royo tied for the Jury Prize. Finally, on the documentary front, Kokomo City and Anhell 69 were both winners.
We’ll keep you posted soon on the jury line-up, the selected films and the opening of ticket sales for the 2024 edition of the Festival Chéries-Chéris.