2024 Iris Prize

HEROINES

Jersey, 1940. Threatened by the German troops' arrival, Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, lesbian and Jewish artists, decided to resist. Armed with their imagination, they create the "nameless soldier" army.

DIRECTOR:

Astré Desrives

PRODUCER:

Maud Berbille

WRITER:

Astré desrives and Julian McKinnon

RELEASE YEAR:

2023

France, 29 mins

Jersey, 1940. Dan fygythiad gan y milwyr Almaenig sy’n cyrraedd, penderfynodd Claude Cahun a Marcel Moore, artistiaid lesbiaidd ac Iddewig, wrthsefyll. Gyda’u dychymyg, maen nhw’n creu’r fyddin “milwr dienw.”

Astré Desrives makes militant films, documentaries and fiction, and videos cobbled together from archive footage and his own memories. An enthusiast of genre films, he co-directed La Vedova nera, a queer giallo. Héroïnes is his first produced film.

Mae Astré Desrives yn gwneud ffilmiau, rhaglenni dogfen a ffuglen milwriaethus, a fideos wedi’u cyfuno o luniau archif a’i atgofion ei hun. Yn frwd dros ffilmiau genre, gwnaeth gyd-gyfarwyddo La Vedova nera, giallo queer. Héroïnes yw ei ffilm gyntaf.

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