The 79th Cannes Film Festival premieres include highly anticipated LGBTQ+ titles across multiple genres. The Black Ball follows interconnected lives of three gay men, moving between 1932, 1937, and 2017, and draws loosely from Federico García Lorca while focusing on honoring queer people who were murdered and repressed. The Man I Love is a musical fantasy drama set in 1980s New York, centered on a theatre performer diagnosed with AIDS and facing impending death. The festival lineup also includes a blood-soaked horror comedy and a moving portrait of the AIDS crisis, reflecting both historical inheritance of hatred and contemporary resilience.
"One of the main driving forces was this question: as part of the LGBTQIA+ community, do we honour like we should the people who were murdered, who endured repression, who fought for our rights? Would they look at us and be proud? I ask myself this very often."
"We also wanted to explore the idea of inheritance - the inherited hatred and shame - and how that is pervasive even today."
"A musical fantasy drama set in the 1980s follows a New York theatre performer's life after he's diagnosed with AIDS."
"Rami Malek plays the theatre performer Jimmy George facing an impending death with so much live left to live."
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