LE BAL

Guillaume Brac films Linda and Irina in this pivotal time of adolescence, where everything is a balancing act between doing what one wants and living up to parents’ expectations, in the run-up to that long-awaited adulthood.

An intimate and political journey through Donna Gottschalk's personal archives—photographs, contact sheets, audio cassettes, letters, diaries. Based on interviews conducted by Hélène and previously unpublished documents, the film traces the lives of Donna and some of her loved ones. The voices of Donna, her sister Myla, and friends like Jill intertwine, composing a choral and fragmentary narrative, where the intimate meets collective history. The film recreates an era—that of a generation of queer women who were committed, precarious, and often invisible.

All together, the students take control of the classroom and build a barricade. Made from everyday school materials, this construction symbolizes both the struggles that run through our history and collective power, to organize, to act and to think about the future.