In this intimate portrait addressed directly to Hélène Hazera, filmmaker Judith Abitbol revisits a key figure of France’s countercultures from the late 1960s to the 1990s. A member of the Gazolines and the FHAR (Homosexual Front for Revolutionary Action), Hazera was a tireless LGBTQ activist who founded Act Up’s Trans and AIDS commissions—one of her proudest achievements. Her true victory, however, was becoming the first transgender journalist at a major national newspaper (Libération), and later a producer at Radio France and France TV. Through her story, Abitbol reconnects with the insurrectionary spirit and creative chaos of those decades—an era when French culture was shaken by radical imagination, humor, and defiance. The film celebrates these modern Antigones who dared to live their desires beyond the reach of any law.
Judith Abitbol
Director
Hélène Hazéra
Self
Laure Adler
Self
Phia Ménard
Self
Judith Abitbol
Self
Joey Joleen Mataele
Self
Giovanna Rincón
Self
Marianne Alphant
Self
Annie Lebrun
Self
Lola Miesseroff
Self
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Re-naissances74%
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Howard67%
Cover-Up70%
Jane Fonda in Five Acts71%
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McQueen74%
How to Survive a Plague67%
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Feminists: What Were They Thinking?75%
The Class of ‘9271%
Fuck64%
Nothing Like a Dame68%
