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>> In the occasion of the Luxembourg Pride, organised by Rosa Lëtzebuerg.

In the film "Mon CRS", Marc Martin plays with the codes associated with virility, the better to thwart them. His fetishistic eye reveals a fairy tale that frees itself from gender and the gaze of others. The image of the traditional couple (including within the LGBTQI+ community) is shattered when a young policeman in the throes of an identity crisis is shaken by a non-binary cabaret singer. 

After the film, Mathis Chevalier will give a performance about children's dreams that gradually give way to the adult world that surrounds us all.

Marc Martin is a French photographer and film-maker. He lives between Paris and Berlin. His work questions our relationship with intimacy. For him, evoking intimacy means revealing a secret zone in the shadow of public representations. In a world saturated with images, the visual artist looks beyond clichés and points of view. Beyond the frame and the norm. By observing the way we look at the body and sexuality, he questions our age, which is also full of obscenity: What can be displayed? What should we keep hidden? His works, like a series of non-conforming portraits, lie somewhere between the I and the game. When he examines the role of public toilets at a time when homosexuality was still forbidden, it is to restore the sordid image of these places that have allowed so many encounters against the norm. Her exhibition Public Toilets, Private Affairs at Berlin's Schwules Museum in 2018 has been extended due to its success. His book Les Tasses was awarded the Prix Sade 2020 for art books and Beau Menteur the Trophées de l'Edition - Livres Hedbo in 2021.

Othmane, a French singer, actor and dancer, was born in 1998 in Pau, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of France, to a Moroccan mother and an Algerian father. In his teens, because of his androgynous figure and his personal life choices, his family cut him off: "I lied to my parents for a long time because I didn't want to disappoint them. In their eyes, I wasn't 'normal', especially in terms of what people would say". Othmane then moved to Paris to live his passion freely in the artistic world. Today, the androgynous artist has freed himself and accepts both masculine and feminine roles. In 2022, Othmane co-starred with Mathis Chevalier in Marc Martin's queer musical Mon CRS. He played the role of a non-binary cabaret singer and performed a pop RnB cover of Annie Cordy's song of the same name. In 2023, Othmane created Liberté Chérie, the French version of Baraye, a song in tribute to Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Iranian student who died after being arrested by the morality police for "wearing inappropriate clothing".

Mathis Chevalier, born in 1998 in the Paris suburbs, is a multi-disciplinary artist: a three-time MMA champion, the young sportsman is now turning to live performance and acting: "I see combat as a liberating performance. Theatrical expression is an extension of these questions about myself and others. Gradually, in the roles I take on, I'm questioning plural masculinity and thwarting - through the image of my muscular body - the stereotypes associated with virility. Being strong also means being able to show your weaknesses". From his theatrical training (Cours Muller Paris) to his performances in short films, the roles chosen by Mathis Chevalier underline his atypical trajectory in the sporting and artistic world. Marc Martin's film "Mon CRS" reveals an acting style that draws strength from what is left unsaid and frees his body from its muscular fortress.