Lionel Soukaz Movies

Reel 5 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

A contemporary scenario, in which American journalist Doug Ireland visits Europe and meets an oppressed young Arab man, is played against the...

While his mother is dying of cancer, Laurent starts a relationship with a handsome stranger who promises to help him with a film carreer.

A short documentary about the October 14 1979 March For Lesbian And Gay Rights in Washington D.C.

After a military coup d'état, political dissidents seek refuge in a foreign embassy. Over the next few days, they are joined by more and more...

"Race d’Ep!" (which literally translates to "Breed of Faggots") was made by the “father of queer theory,” Guy Hocquenghem, in...

In 1991, Lionel Soukaz initiated his Journal annales, filming his "community of fags, poor people, and drug addicts" confronted with the AIDS...

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

My friend ‘RV’ died on 1 August 1994 at the age of 32. We had known each other for 12 years. I believe that this 28-minute video, started...

“Ixe (written X and pronounced EEKS – as it is pronounced in French –, like a scream, a wound) is an imploded, crucified film. Made...

A fantasia on the inner lives of gay teenagers in '70s France.

Lionel Soukaz opens a wooden panel to discover the sky and comes across Italian workers singing. He longs for them and, when they leave in the...

Five young people reincarnate Guy Hocquenghem, who died in 1988, novelist and philosopher, founder of the FHAR who, all his life, refused to identify...

Daily spleen, drunkenness among friends, conversations and the passage of time: the video diaries composed by Lionel Soukaz chronicle the early...

The voice-over of “Boyfriend 2”, a manifesto for the liberation of adolescent sexuality, intertwines texts by Pasolini, Soukaz, Duvert,...

A trip to Andalusia, filmed from the window of a bus, hand on his companion’s bulge.

I find pornographic magic lantern slides when I get home. I put them in front of my TV and record them. Thanks to Agathe Dreyfus.

Othello Vilgard, Xavier Baert and Lionel Soukaz filmed a performance by Tom from Beijing: one strips himself naked while the others veil and reveal...

Portrait of pioneering LGBT filmmaker Lionel Soukaz, who passed away in February 2025. His work lies at the crossroads of several film traditions...