Amazones 2000

"This film is a road movie travelling through France and Italy during the time of World pride and the Christian Jubilee year in Rome. It is a personal journey into the world of young lesbians and their visibility and a quest into my own identity. I have seen both myself and the homosexual milieu change. I have felt the transition between silent, secret, underground night life and a more saucy lifestyle where the most important things was to make oneself respected, turn a "peculiarity" into something positive and enriching. By overcoming and taming my own sense of decency, I opened myself up to a multitude of pleasures. Homosexuality, gays, bars are no longer taboo subjects... but the gay world is usually represented as homogeneous, with an exuberant leaning for consumption. Lesbians have a different and peculiar history and experience of life. What does it mean to be a woman and a lesbian ? Many of us are looking for a new way of approaching life and do not wonder any longer "Why am I a lesbian ?" but "What can I do as a lesbian ?". What kind of life can one lead in a society where a lesbian seems to have no particular existence beyond that conveyed by clichés and generally accepted ideas ?
We meet Nicole, one of the first lesbians to have opened a bar in Paris, Anna Margarita who runs crazy "Ladies' Room" parties. We tackle the question of homoparentality with Férial and her son ; follow Imma, the main Italian organise of the first "gay, lesbian, transgender, bi-sexual World Pride" right in the middle of the Christian Jubilee ! And many other active lesbians... in a changing world.
This film aims at showing the question of the lesbian visibility and its currently evolving process."
(Florence Fradelizi)