Official Selection - Out of Competition

Femme

Sam H. Freeman | Ping NG Chong
Festival Pops LGBTQIA+ Crime & Thriller 2022 99 min United Kingdom
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Synopsis

A riveting London-based thriller.

By night, Jules transforms herself into a drag queen and sets London’s stages alight. One night, a group of homophobic thugs attack him after a show. Jules went into hiding and didn’t dare leave his house until three months later. While in a gay sauna, he stumbles across Preston, the leader of his attackers, whose friends are unaware of his homosexuality. But Preston does not recognise his victim. Driven by a desire for revenge, Jules begins an affair with his tormentor…

With their precise eye and sharp direction, directors Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping weave a remarkable thriller where physical performance and psychological subtlety meet in an anti-homophobia plea.

Cast/Avec

  • George MacKay
  • Nathan Stewart-Jarrett
  • Aaron Heffernan

Screenplay

  • Sam H. Freeman
  • Ng Choon Ping

Cinematographer

  • James Rhodes

Sound

  • Ludovic Lasserre

Music

  • Adam Janota Bzowski

Production

  • Agile Films
  • Anton
  • BBC Film
  • Under New Mgmt

Screenings

Saturday 02 March 2024 21:30
Lieux : Ciné Utopia
Audio : English
Subtitles : French,Dutch
Screening : Public Screening
Monday 04 March 2024 14:00
Lieux : Cinémathèque
Audio : English
Subtitles : French, Dutch
Screening : Public Screening

Critics

« McKay et Stewart-Jarrett luttent et se traquent, dans une intimité haletante, ce que le grand écran amplifie à la perfection. »,
David Katz www.cineuropa.org 06/03/2023

Sam H. Freeman

Sam H. Freeman
Sam H. Freeman

Sam H. Freeman is a British director who has worked mainly as a scriptwriter for television, He wrote the series Industry, and his first original series, Unmasked, was bought by Disney. Femme won the BAFTA Short Film Award in 2021. By adapting this short film, he signed his first fiction film, also entitled Femme, which will be presented at the Berlinale in 2023.

Filmography

  • Femme 2023
  • Femme (short film) 2021
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Ping NG Chong

Ping NG Chong
Ping NG Chong

Ng Choon Ping studied at the University of York and then at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. He has worked at the National Theatre in London, the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester and the Singapore Repertory Theatre, and has won numerous awards for his directing work. After his first short film, Femme, co-directed with Sam H. Freeman, he went on to co-direct his first film of the same name.

Filmography

  • Femme 2023
  • Femme (short film) 2021
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