Lie with Me

Q-Space Festival Tallinn (30.11.2023 - 3.12.2023)

Q-Space Festival Tallinn opening ceremony and opening movie "Lie with Me. After the screening there will be Q&A with actors - Jérémy Gillet and Julien De Saint Jean

The sensual yearning of Philippe Besson’s award-winning novel Lie with Me is writ large in director Olivier Peyon’s achingly tender adaptation. When celebrated author Stéphane (César Award-winning actor Guillaume de Tonquédec) reluctantly returns to his rural French hometown to accept an award, he’s forced to confront skeletons left in the closet decades ago. There’s something familiar about his ostensible tour guide, Lucas (Victor Belmondo, grandson of French acting legend Jean-Paul), something that stirs his memories of his first teenage love (and lust) Thomas (Julien de Saint Jean, also featured in Frameline47 film The Lost Boys).

With its bucolic rural European setting and parallel narratives set in the author’s youth as well as today, Peyon’s film combines the passion of Call Me by Your Name with a Proustian reflective wistfulness. However, Lie with Me stands on its own, a miraculous feat of adaptation with an uncommon understanding of queer sex and desire in both the spring and autumn of life.

Q-Space Festival Tallinn (30.11.2023 - 3.12.2023) is a new cultural festival in Estonia that focuses on sharing the stories of LGBT people, expanding safe space for queer people and promoting acceptance in society through film screenings, panel discussions, and other cultural events. All Q-Space events are organised in three languages and accessible not only for Estonian and Russian speakers but other people living in Estonia as well. Q-Space is working to bring dialogue and discussion on queer issues between different groups of society.

From 30 November to 3 December 2023, the Q-Space Festival Tallinn brings to the city a range of vibrant events:

• 7 screenings of new and internationally awarded films (5 full-length films, documentary and a collection of animated films) in the Artis cinema.

• 2 discussions on relevant issues such as being out and queer in school and the parenthood of trans people and acceptance by the their families

• 2 Q&As with film creators

• 1 workshop on emancipation through movement and dancing

• 1 presentation of a new publication of a comic book How Much Queer Work in Estonian

All films are shown with Estonian/English/Russian subtitles, discussions with guests are held in English.

We estimate 1500 visitors for the Q-Space Tallinn Festival.

Q-Space was founded in 2022 in Estonia. It is dedicated to LGBT communities and human rights. Q-Space received the honorary title of Rainbow Hero from the Estonian LGBT Association 2023.

During its short period of operation Q-Space has organised 12 public film events in Tallinn and Narva, a demonstration and film screenings at the Baltic Pride 2023. Events gathered 1 650 people.