THE STRIKE
LA GRÈVE
Gabrielle Stemmer • France • 2025 • 55 min.
SYNOPSIS
« One morning I realized I hadn’t made love for three months. » Thus begins Ovidie’s sex strike.
Through an editing of archival footage and a reading of Ovidie’s text “La Chair est triste hélas”, Gabrielle Stemmer’s collage film shatters the heterosexual model, a story that is both intimate and political.
TRAILER
FESTIVALS & ALTERNATIVE SCREENINGS
San Sebastian Film Festival | Zabaltegi-Tabakalera. Spain (2025)
PRESS
ICS • by Matthew Joseph Jenner
CREW
DIRECTOR
Gabrielle Stemmer
NARRATOR
Julia Faure
PRODUCER
Sandra da Fonseca
CO-PRODUCERS
Institut national de l’audiovisuel (INA)
Ciclic-Région Centre-Val de Loire
EDITOR
Gabrielle Stemmer
SOUND DESIGN
Flavia Cordey
SOUND MIX
Vincent Dupuis
Guillaume Solignat
VOICE OFF RECORDING
Amaury Arboun
ÉTALONNAGE
Alexandra Pocquet
SUPPORTED BY
Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée
BASED ON
« La chair est triste hélas » d’Ovidie
© Éditions Julliard, 2023
WORLD SALES & FESTIVALS
María Vera (KINO REBELDE)