The Strike
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Production year2025
French release22/04/2026
Runtime55 min
Synopsis
« One morning I realized I hadn’t made love for three months. » Thus begins Ovidie’s sex strike, as told in her best-selling book « La Chair est triste hélas » (The Flesh is Sad, Alas). Gabrielle Stemmer takes hold of the intimate and political journey of a woman revisiting her past, caught in the web of patriarchy. Through a hypnotic blend of found footage, television archives and amateur films, Stemmer’s political essay exposes the cracks in the heterosexual model.
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Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producers : Blue Monday Productions, Belleville Production
- Co-productions : Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (INA), CICLIC (ex-Centre Images)
- Film exports/foreign sales : Kino Rebelde
- French distribution : New Story
Full credits (6)
- Executive Producer : Sandra da Fonseca
- Editor : Gabrielle Stemmer
- Author of original work : Ovidie
- Sound editor : Flavia Cordey
- Sound Mixer : Guillaume Solignat
- Narrator : Julia Faure
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2025
- Runtime : 55 min
- Visa number : 165.041
- Visa issue date : 16/03/2026
- Color type : Color and Black & White
- Rating restrictions : Suitable for all viewers, with warnings
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