THE LIBRARIANS
Starting in 2021, the governor of Texas listed 850 books that are likely to cause “discomfort, guilt, anxiety, or any other form of psychological distress due to their treatment of race, gender, or sex.” These books address topics such as feminism, LGBTIQ+, sex education, segregation, and adolescent rights. The relentless censorship machine has been set in motion and has spread across many states, even leading to book burnings.
An entire body of literature becomes banned from schools, and the crackdown gains in intensity. Librarians who oppose are treated like criminals, forcing some to testify anonymously in this documentary. A shock yet so revealing of the situation. Who is behind this obscurantism? What resistance is there to a movement of such magnitude?
best documentary at Sarasota Film Festival, Grand Prix at Dallas International Film Festival – selected at Sundance, SXSW, Frameline and in over forty international film festivals
nominee for the Perfect Award Prix Mémoires LGBTIQ+ of the City of Geneva
french-speaking swiss premiere