CELINE TIBERGHIEN / queer tango

A short clip about Céline Tiberghien. Take a look on a short interview with her. She is an amazing queer tango dancer and co-founder of queer tango in Paris. It was part of a long research for a feature documentary BEFORE WE MOVE, a story of queer tango dancers in St. Petersburg dancing their way to a
better life in Israel due to the harsh LGBTQ+ political situation in the country.

More information: http://vamfilms.com/
Directed by Aleksandr M. Vinogradov
Music by Volco&Gignoli

IMDB page : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22507180/
Rotten Tomatoes page: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/befo...

A world premiere at the Sheffield Doc Fest 2022:
https://sheffdocfest.com/film/we-move
Israeli Premiere at the TLVFest 2022:
https://www.tlvfest.com/en/fest_movie...

Directed & produced by Aleksandr M. Vinogradov
Cinematography by Tanya Haurylchyk
© VamFilms
Production / www.vamfilms.com

The film documents two years of a couple Misha and Otar before their
immigration to Israel. The images of the documentary preserved their lives and
emotions in the decision making process. While organising queer tango events and
giving tango classes, they are feeling lost about the upcoming departure.
Tango is a pair dance that originated in the poor port areas of Argentina at the
end of the 19th century. It was danced by men, emigrants from Southern Europe,
Africa, South America. The dance expressed their suffering about the abandoned
homeland, family and loved ones. As society changes, how we dance changes too. In
the modern time the international queer community reinvented it as Queer Tango.
It’s a different way to dance, where nobody takes your gender, sexual orientation
or choice of role for granted. Like any other popular dance, it is a mirror of
the society in which it was developed and from which it emerges. It reflects life
and helps people express their complex feelings through dance.
People have always moved in search of better living conditions and escaping
dramatic political environment in their homeland. The rising level of homophobia
in Russia forces many gays and lesbians to leave their country and seek refuge
abroad. When narrow-minded traditionalism and xenophobia are rife in the country,
tango leads you forward move by move, no matter what gender, sexual orientation
or nationality you have. If you’re queer enough for the farewell tango, life will reward you with a new
embrace.

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