The powerful portrait of a founder of the FEMEN movement
July 23, 2018. An important date for ex-FEMEN leader Oxana Chatchko – the opening of her exhibition of blasphemous icons. So begins a day of wandering across Paris. Amidst encounters with lovers and an art critic, and an appointment to confirm her political refugee status, memories of her past as a feminist activist, and the traumas and betrayals suffered during her fight, resurface. Can she reawaken her desire to live?
« Caméra en main, elle rassemble les morceaux de sa jeune vie de femme ayant cherché le goût de la liberté – dans l'art, dans l'union et dans la révolte. En résulte un hommage fasciné à cette artiste que l'on aurait tort d'oublier. »
Marthe Mabille Vogue 08/01/2025
Charlène FAVIER
Charlène Favier, born in 1985 in Bourg-Saint-Maurice, is a French filmmaker and screenwriter. She grew up in Savoie, where she trained in competitive skiing before turning to cinema. After studying at EICAR and the Prague Film School, she directed Slalom (2020), a drama about sexual abuse in sports, which was selected for the Cannes Film Festival. In 2023, she adapted Tanguy Viel’s novel La Fille qu’on appelle for Arte. In 2024, she returns with a biopic on Oksana Shachko, one of the founders of the FEMEN movement.