\u00bbThe only mainstream queer female stories have been directed by men \u2013 it disgusts me.\u00ab
\n\u2013 Desiree Akhavan<\/p>\n
After the death of her parents in an accident, Cameron Post has to move in with her ultra-conservative relatives. It\u2019s 1993, and in deepest Montana it\u2019s an absolute taboo for women to fancy women. When her aunt catches her making out in her car with prom queen Coley, Cameron is packed off to a conversion therapy camp. \u00bbPray away the gay!\u00ab is the order of the day here. In \u00bbGod\u2019s Promise\u00ab Reverend Rick and his sister Dr. Lydia Marsh use dubious therapy methods and Jesus music to show the young people the way to God and heterosexuality. With a pathologising intent, the \u00bbcondition\u00ab is referred to here as SSA \u2013 Same Sex Attraction. The young people are supposed to identify all the causes of their abnormality. But in this dreadful place, Cameron finds friends with whom she can be herself for the first time. She immediately connects with the camp\u2019s two biggest rebels and together they find freedom and creative ways out of the camp\u2019s constraints.<\/p>\n
Desiree Akhavan\u2019s film is based on Emily M. Danforth\u2019s 2012 novel of the same name, which was inspired by real events that sparked a wide public debate in the US in 2005. At that time, teenager Zach Stark revealed the experiences he had had in a camp designed to stop \u00bbendangered\u00ab youths from following their \u00bbinclination\u00ab and bring them back on the \u00bbright path\u00ab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":17252,"template":"","movie_year":[23],"movie_genre":[80],"movie_cat":[261],"festival":[395],"class_list":["post-8481","movie","type-movie","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","movie_year-23","movie_genre-feature-film-en","movie_cat-international-feature-film-competition-for-women-directors-en-2019","festival-2019-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n