Our Joyful Endings (work in progress)

(WORK IN PROGRESS - A music will be added soon)

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.

  • La Fille Renne
    Director
  • Lucie Babayan
    Director
  • La Fille Renne
    Writer
  • Lucie Babayan
    Writer
  • Lou Mara
    Writer
  • La Fille Renne
    Producer
  • Lucie Babayan
    Producer
  • La Fille Renne
    Photographer
  • La Fille Renne
    Editing
  • Lucie Babayan
    Illustration
  • Théo
    Music
  • Malo Ophé Billebeau
    Music
  • Miel XOX
    Translation
  • Lou Mara
    Lighting
  • Erin
    Lighting
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Nos Fins Joyeuses
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    6 minutes 7 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    May 1, 2025
  • Production Budget:
    100 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    France
  • Country of Filming:
    France
  • Language:
    French
  • Shooting Format:
    35mm
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2.66:1
  • Film Color:
    Black & White
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - La Fille Renne, Lucie Babayan

Lucie 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.
(Photo © Noémie Allardet)

La Fille Renne is a non-binary photographer, filmmaker and artist from Lyon (France). They are passionate about analogue photography, ecology, osteology, the Arctic and intimacy. They direct short movies on film, alone or as part of a collective with Elisa Monteil and Laure Giappiconi, about ecology or queerness and sexuality. Their films have been screened at numerous festivals around the world, including Sundance, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the London Short Film Festival, Go Short, Les Filministes, RIDM, Leiden Shorts, Côté Court, Lago Film Fest, etc.

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Director Statement

Our Joyful Endings was written in response to several observations about the body and desire in the lives of trans-masculine people.
During these journeys, which are sometimes accompanied by bodily changes, the body can be a vector of euphoria, an actor of pleasure, an object of desire, but also of rejection. There is a crying lack of erotic representations of trans-masculine bodies, particularly in gay erotic imagery. Experiences of rejection of trans-masculine people in gay communities are common, and we make the link between lack of representations, difficulties in projecting desire and rejection. Indeed, how can we desire a body that has never been thought of or seen?

In Our Joyful Endings, we were keen to show a diversity of trans-masculine bodies, with different journeys. In the common imagination, a trans body is one that has undergone surgery to conform to binary gender norms, but this is far from being the norm.
It also seems essential to us that there should be more representations of trans people in cinematographic works.

In addition to the on-screen representation of trans people, we also chose to set up a shoot with a chosen mix of trans-masculine and non-binary people. This enabled us to bring together people with shared experiences specifically on the issues raised by Our Joyful Endings. The film was also written based on real-life experiences.

To keep with the work of the film's cinematographer, the choice of cinematography was based on experimental photography. Expired monochrome 35mm film, processed and digitized using traditional DIY techniques, gives to Our Joyful Endings a highly intimate visual dimension.