85 min.–doc(2026)
vo:en/subtitles:fr
from 18 years old
Jeffrey Schwarz (US)

The 1970s: San Francisco’s gay bars, leather, free love, and hot, kinky nights. Then, mysterious disappearances and murders—sometimes without bodies… A serial killer, perhaps? But the police aren’t rushing to solve these cases.
When a Variety reporter is found unconscious in his home, an investigation finally begins. In 1979, the successful director William Friedkin (The Exorcist, The French Connection, etc.) takes on the subject for his next film, Cruising, starring Al Pacino. The screenplay leaks and stirs up the gay community: how could anyone accept the continued portrayal of gay men as deviant individuals, lurking in the underworld, potential murderers, or notorious victims?
A fascinating and meticulous documentary, edited like a thriller, that sheds new light on cinematic representations and queer history.