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"It is important to be connected to the struggles": the TLVFest festival is underway | Israel today

2022-10-27T09:58:06.788Z


After winning the Cannes Film Festival in the "Certain Look" category, the film "Rodeo", which follows a biker who joins a group of biker criminals, is coming to the Gay Film Festival.


One of the most intriguing names to grace the 17th edition of TLVFest, the proud international film festival that will open tonight (Thursday), is that of director Lola Kiburon.

Together with the screenwriter and actress Antonia Bursi, who will also come to Israel, the 33-year-old Kiburon created the film "Rodeo", which explores the exploits of a biker who joins a group of criminal bikers and falls in love with the group's leader's wife.

The film raises issues of sexuality, gender and social classes through the prism of a group of motorcyclists, which functions as a kind of community, a large and cohesive tribe crossing the paths and roads of France.

At the last Cannes Film Festival he won the Jury Prize in the "Certain View" category, and he uses a female point of view, both of the main character and of his creators, to tell a story about a world perceived as male and macho, a subculture with its own rules, that lives on the margins but says Quite a bit about society in France - and all over the world, in fact.

"It is indeed a subculture," says Kiburon in a Zoom conversation, who has been on a trip across Europe, the US and Canada for the past two weeks to promote the film. "This world of biker life came from the East Coast of the US, from places like Baltimore and Philadelphia. I think it came To France 15-20 years ago, thanks to video clips of rappers like DMX, then a lot of young French people started imitating the American racers and this whole culture.

Kiburon

"For me it is very important to be at this festival", Photo: The International Film Festival is proud

"My introduction to this world was in 2015, when I was at a film school in Paris. It was not really known, and the press hardly wrote about it. One day, I came across a video of a motorcycle rider, and it touched me a lot. I became interested in this lifestyle, which combines acrobatics, roads and even family ties that are formed. I read an article about the life of bikers in France, and about a community called 'Dirty Riders' that comes from the suburbs of Paris. As someone who grew up in the suburbs, it was easy for me to connect with them, and they accepted me. I knew them for seven years, I rode with 50 ride and I was amazed by the family aspect of this culture."

Despite the changing times, a motorcycle is still considered a symbol of masculinity.


"There really aren't many girls who do this, but suddenly in 2016 I met someone who loves it. She had a strong personality and motivation, and she stood up to all these boys. She was really a character, everyone saw her. At one point she disappeared from us and we didn't know where Her. It was strange, because she passed through time like some star. After she disappeared, I thought a lot about that girl, and I began to build the character of Julia based on her and the aggressiveness she had, and suddenly I saw myself inside her character. In such a closed and autonomous system , and of course male, suddenly she became like the character of the foreigner in the Western, and she allowed a certain point of view on the story."

This may be a naive question, but is there still a need today for a festival that is specially dedicated to proud cinema?


"For me, it is very important to be at this festival, because it communicates a culture of differences and freedom. I am indeed a lesbian woman, but I do not identify myself as a woman or a lesbian, my sexuality is non-binary. And Julia at the same time is always in the middle. There is Normalization of the gay community, and it is much more accepted than before, but we never know what is going to happen, and it is very important to be connected to the struggles. We need to protect our place, our pride and our rights."

The Gay Film Festival at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque will open tonight, and will continue until November 5.

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Source: israelhayom

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