The Festival promotes the product of lesbian independent cinema of the whole world realized and produced by lesbian directors. The Festival rejects the clich s continuously spread by heterosexual cinema about the lesbian subject in films such as Butterfly Kiss, Heavenly Creatures, Gazon Maudit , etc. As a consequence, the reactions of the heterosexual audience to such images swing from horror to compassion, to derision or, at the best, to chilly empathy.
Lesbians get out from the cinema feeling humiliated or angry.
We dedicate Immaginaria to all the lesbians who are free and against every kind of oppression.