Beyond Hatred is a 2005

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 French

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 documentary film

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 written and directed by Olivier Meyrou.

The documentary tells the story of a French couple seeking justice after the homophobic

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 murder of their gay

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 son, 29-year old Francois Chenu. He was murdered by neo-fascist skinheads in 2002. The attackers were arrested one month after the incident, and Meyrou read about the case on the front page of Le Monde

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. He had been wanting to make a film about homophobia for some time, and decided that the Chenu case was very emblematic.

Beyond Hatred premiere

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d on French television

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 on June 19, 2005 and was released into French cinema

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s in 2006, distributed by Eurozoom. It was shown at the 2006 Berlin International Film Festival

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, the Paris Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, and the 2007 London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival

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. It was given a limited theatrical release in the United States

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 on June 15, 2007, distributed by First Run Features

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 gave Beyond Hatred a "fresh" rating of 89% based on 18 reviews. Metacritic

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 gave it a "generally favorable" rating of 65% based on five reviews. The documentary won the Teddy Award

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 for Best Documentary at the 2006 Berlin Film Festival.