At the foot of Mount Vesuvius, in Pagani near Pompeii, a community of believers venerating Our Lady of the Hens (Madonna delle Galline) perpetuates ancient pagan traditions mixed with religious elements. These collective and popular rites and rituals celebrate the Virgin, as well as the passage of the seasons, with songs and ancestral dances of cathartic force. They are guided by the femminielli who, since ancient times, have had particular social roles in Neapolitan society. Assigned male at birth, the femminielli socially assume gender roles and expressions conventionally considered "feminine", disrupting sexual, gender, social, economic, geographical, religious and cultural identities. Disturbed by the rhythms of the tammorra, the boundaries between all these identities become even more blurred and question the world of today.

Director : Elisa Flaminia Inno

Production : Parallelo 41 produzioni

In collaboration with : 15 06 film

Italy, 2016, HD, color, 52'.

Discussion after the screening in the presence of :
Elisa Flaminia Inno, author and director of documentary films
Adrian Stiefel, head of the LGBTI office in Geneva and minister of the Protestant Church of Geneva
Federica Tamarozzi, curator in charge of the Dpt. Europe, MEG - Musée d'ethnographie de Genève, Ethnologist
Moderator: Ferdinando Miranda, Executive Director of the Maurice Chalumeau Center for Sexuality Studies at the University of Geneva (CMCSS)

Event organized by the Maurice Chalumeau Center for Sexuality Studies of the University of Geneva (CMCSS) in collaboration with the City of Carouge