Jim Queen (French: Jim Queen à la recherche de la Chloroqueer) is a 2026 adult animatedcomedy film co-directed by Nicolas Athané and Marco Nguyen (in their directorial debut), co-written with Simon Balteaux and Brice Chevillard. A co-production of France and Belgium, it follows the outbreak of a virus in Paris that turns gay men into heterosexuals.
The film had its world premiere in the Midnight Screenings section of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival on 18 May, where it was nominated for the Caméra d'Or and the Queer Palm. Distributed by The Jokers Films, it was released theatrically in France on 17 June. The film received generally positive reviews from critics.
Synopsis
Jim, a gay icon in Paris, contracts a virus that turns homosexual men heterosexual and embarks with Lucien on a quest to find a cure and save the LGBTQIA+ community.
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 95% based on 21 reviews, with an average rating of 7.3/10. Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 61 out of 100, based on 7 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
