Jim Queen 2026

Directed by Marco Nguyen, Nicolas Athané Nocturnal

Bold, colourful and irreverent, Jim Queen is the elevated campy animation you don't want your mother to watch – but that all your gay friends will die to see.

France In French with English subtitles
85 minutes
TBC
NZ Classification TBC

Producers

Bobbypills, David Alric, Arthur Delabays

Screenplay

Simon Balteaux, Marco Nguyen, Nicolas Athané, Brice Chevillard

Storyboards

Nicolas Athané, Brice Chevillard, Marylène Sun, Anaïs Chevillard

Editor

Ivy Buirette

Animation Directors

Stefan Thaler, Julien Licata, Estelle Antonini

Music

Mathieu Rosenzweig, Benjamin Nakache (Kirosen)

Cast

Alex Ramirès, Jérémy Gillet, Shirley Souagnon, François Sagat

Festivals

Cannes, Sydney 2026

Elsewhere

Jim Parfait is the ultimate king, or rather queen of the Parisian gay community. A 20-million plus followers influencer, he spends his days cultivating his 24-pack of abs at the gym, or the temple of gay culture elevation and depravation. On a fine day, one of his abs inexplicably deflates. That is the first symptom of a new disease spreading among gay people: heterosis. With the impending doom of turning straight, Jim Parfait needs to find a cure against the epidemic. Unbeknown to him, Lucien, a reclusive twink who secretly holds a reliquary of Jim Parfait paraphernalia and sex toys, may hold the key to salvation. But first, Lucien has to escape the draconian control of his homophobic Health Minister mother and come out into the shiny, shallow, shameless queendom where Jim reigns.

Unabashedly heterophobic, Marco Nguyen and Nicolas Athané's Jim Queen was the runaway laugh-out- loud hit of the Midnight Screenings at Cannes Film Festival. Delightfully plunging audiences in an ultra-colourful and exuberantly explicit gay fantasia, Jim Queen doesn't refrain from cleverly satirising the obsessions of its target audiences. A wild unicorn ride that shan't be missed!