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AN INTRODUCTION TO
THE « VUES D'EN FACE » FESTIVAL
This project originated with some twenty people, voluntaries
from different origins and with different sensitivities,
who got together with the aim to create a film festival
driven by a desire to promote cinematographic works presenting
gay and lesbian characters or themes, and by the wish
to present French and foreign films that had been passed
over by the official distribution and exploitation circuits.
This is how the Festival International du Film Gay et
Lesbien de Grenoble was born, in March 2001.
If the screening of films that are rarely distributed
in France is the festival's raison d'être, it also
aims to play a part in the evolution of mentalities in
the acknowledgement and respect of differences with a
challenging film selection, the visibility of its communication
schemes, and by not limiting its audience to the gay community.
"Vues d'en face" has found its niche in the
Grenoble cultural landscape with the support of private
and public sponsors, as well as that of film business
professionals. Every year, for a week, a wide array of
cinematographic works can be seen on a big screen. It
is a congenial week, favorable to exchanges between the
organising team, the public and the professionals.
Each edition of "Vues d'en face" draws more
than 2,000 viewers and offers a selection of some twenty
feature length films and as many short ones from the world
over. The films that have remained unreleased in France
are translated and subtitled by the festival's team.
Eight years after the birth of "Vues d'en face",
the offer of cinematographic works dealing with the various
aspects of homosexuality are still few and far between,
in spite of several big public hits and the creation of
other gay-lesbian-bi-trans festivals. This is why "Vues
d'en face" is keen on programming a great number
of atypical films, and practices an open policy by trying
to appeal to an ever-wider audience.
