The first look at the revenge thriller ‘Femme‘ starring Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and George MacKay, has been revealed. The film will premiere at the 2023 Berlin International Film Festival. Check out the first look below.
Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping directed the film, which is based on their BAFTA-nominated short film of the same name from 2021. In the film, Stewart-Jarrett plays a drag queen whose life is destroyed by a homophobic attack and then plots revenge on one of the perpetrators (MacKay) when he spots him in a gay sauna.
The film also stars Anaïs Demoustier, Tom Mercier and Béatrice Dalle. Agile’s Myles Payne and Ritzenberg will produce the film, which is co-financed by BBC Film and Anton, while Hayley Williams will co-produce. Executive producers are Eva Yates for BBC Film, Marnie Podos, and Anton’s Sebastien Raybaud and Cecile Gaget.
In a statement, Freeman and Ping said, “We are huge fans of thrillers, but we felt that the predominantly hyper-masculine genre often excludes the queer perspective.” added, “By putting a gay protagonist at the heart of a thriller, we aim to invert expectations, and push stories from the margin, and ourselves as queer artists, into the mainstream.“
Femme will be released at the 2023 Berlin International Film Festival.
