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Jim is the king of Gym Queens, the sexiest community in the Parisian gay scene, made of muscles, sweat and parties. Everything goes well for him up to the day he gets Heterosis, a strange new virus turning gay men into… straights!<\/p>\n
Stripped of his crown and abandoned by everyone except his last remaining follower, Lucien, a closeted young Twink, Jim must team up with him to crisscross the city in search of a mysterious cure. Their mission? Heal Jim… and save the LGBTQIA+ community from total extinction.<\/p>\n
\nDirected by:<\/strong> Marco Nguyen, Nicolas Athan\u00e9 I had this project in mind because I was organizing [afterworks and LGBTQIA+ parties]. I was very active in the gay community, and I wanted to be inspired by this universe. With Simon, we wondered how we could give form to the community. [\u2026] But at the time, there was no political hardening around us. Today, it resonates differently. We had to adapt. What we wanted to criticize was not straight people as such, but heteronormativity, that is, this imposed model: a father, a mother, children, a house, a car…<\/p>\n We wanted to incorporate conversion therapies right from the start. Since Jim Queen is a satire, we aimed to turn the world upside down by depicting certain gay characters mimicking the very actions of their tormentors. [\u2026] This serves to underscore, all the more powerfully, just how violent and horrific conversion therapies truly are, and that, under no circumstances, can one ever impose an identity upon another person.<\/p>\n Animation is a medium where everything is possible. With Jim Queen, we wanted people to know about the life we lead. To make people want tolerance, living together, acceptance and the courage to be oneself. To tell young people today that one can be gay and happy, even if we still have to fight against a very virile and patriarchal world.<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text] [vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_column_text] JIM QUEEN France, Belgium | 2026 | 85′ In French with Slovenian and English subtitles ABOUT THE FILM Jim is the king of Gym Queens, the sexiest community in the Parisian gay scene, made of muscles, sweat and parties. Everything goes well for him up to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/template_page-builder.php","meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animateka.si\/2026\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28800"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animateka.si\/2026\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animateka.si\/2026\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animateka.si\/2026\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animateka.si\/2026\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.animateka.si\/2026\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28801,"href":"https:\/\/www.animateka.si\/2026\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28800\/revisions\/28801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animateka.si\/2026\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWritten by:<\/strong> Simon Balteaux, Marco Nguyen, Nicolas Athan\u00e9, Brice Chevillard
\nMusic:<\/strong> Kirosen (Mathieu Rosenzweig, Benjamin Nakache)
\nEditing:<\/strong> Ivy Buirette
\nSound Design:<\/strong> Badje
\nAnimation Directors:<\/strong> Stefan Thaler, Julien Licata, Estelle Antonini
\n2D Layout Directors:<\/strong> Loris Pilorget, Yoann Gourru
\nProducers:<\/strong> David Alric, Arthur Delabays, C\u00e9dric Iland, Bastien Sirodot
\nProduction:<\/strong> Bobbypills, Umedia
\nCast:<\/strong> Alex Ramir\u00e8s, J\u00e9r\u00e9my Gillet, Shirley Souagnon, Elisabeth Wiener, Fran\u00e7ois Sagat, Alex Brik, Harald Marlot, Philippe Katerine\n<\/p>\nDIRECTOR’S STATEMENT<\/h2>\n
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