Our Joyful Endings

Original title: Nos fins joyeuses

France, 6 minutes, 2025, documentary, experimental

Directors: Levon Babayan, La Fille Renne

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Our Joyful Endings follows the diary of a trans-masculine person who sees his own and others’ views of his body change during his transition. Between desire, apprehension, and questioning. From there, comfort grows with people who share this experience.

Content warning: explicit content

Film screening dates: 23.11.2025 — 07.12.2025

Medium close-up, portrait. A person gazes into the distance against the backdrop of a misty sea and a green hill. They have long dark hair and a nose piercing. They are wearing a red hat, a knitted sweater, and a yellow raincoat.

La Fille Renne

La Fille Renne is a non-binary photographer, filmmaker, and tattoo artist from Lyon (France). They are passionate about analog photography, ecology, osteology, the Arctic, and intimacy. They direct short movies on film alone and in collective with Laure Giappiconi and Elisa Monteil about ecology or queerness and sexuality.

Medium close-up, portrait. A person with short black hair and expressive eyebrows stands sideways to the camera against a backdrop of lush green trees. They wear a black tank top. Their neck, chest, and shoulders are adorned with tattoos, and their ears and nose are pierced.

Levon Babayan

Levon Babayan is a French-Armenian trans-masculine artist from Lyon. He has been a tattooist and embroiderer for over 10 years. His work is inspired by nature, insects, plants, medical books, and religious icons. His latest research and illustration project highlights queer saints from Christianity. Our Joyful Endings is his first film project.

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