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Hélène trésore transationale

Country: France, Language: French, 94 mins

  • Director: Judith Abitbol

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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.


En s’adressant directement, et intimement, à Hélène Hazera, la cinéaste Judith Abitbol réalise le portrait d’une figure importante des contre-cultures de la fin des années 60-90, en France. Membre des Gazolines, membre du F.H.A.R. (Front Homosexuel d’Action Révolutionnaire), activiste LGBTQ infatigable, Hélène Hazera a créé la commission Trans et SIDA au sein d’Act Up, une de ses grandes fiertés. Sa vraie revanche sur une vie qui a démarré dans des années où le désir et la nécessité de changer de genre n’avaient rien d’évident, fut de devenir la première journaliste transgenre d’un grand quotidien national, Libération, productrice à Radio France et à France TV.


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Cast & Characters

Hélène Hazera (as Self)
Claude Chuzel (as Self)
Françoise Prenant (as Self)
Lola Miesseroff (as Self)
Phia Ménard (as Self)
Joey Joleen Mataele (as Self)
Marianne Alphant (as Self)
Laure Adler (as Self)
Annie Le Brun (as Self)
Patrick Cardon (as Self)
Serge Kruger (as Self)