My Benjamin: 2026 SF Dance Film Festival

My Benjamin follows Benjamin Pech during his final year as an Étoile at the Paris Opera Ballet , tracing the arc of his artistic life inside the storied Palais Garnier, from his entry into the Opera’s ballet school at age ten to the severe hip injury that now threatens to end his career. A visual essay on endings, on the loving acceptance of deterioration, and on the need to be seen through these processes, My Benjamin renders the private world of ballet intimate and immediate, following Benjami