THE LIBRARIANS
Starting in 2021, the governor of Texas has 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 is spreading across many states, even leading to book burnings.
An entire body of literature is banned from schools, and the crackdown is violent. Librarians who oppose it become criminals, sometimes testifying anonymously in this documentary, which is as shocking as it is informative. 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
french-speaking swiss premiere
nominee for the Perfect Award Prix Mémoires LGBTIQ+ of the City of Geneva