Movies: René Vautier

The essay by René Vautier, "Déjà le sang de Mai ensemençait Novembre", starts with the recapitulation of the representations of Algeria throughout the history of visual arts in France in an effort to explore the causes for the quest for independence....

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This rambling political melodrama tells the story of a French Breton who learns about colonialism while teaching native students in France's colonies of Tunisia and Algeria and returns to his native Brittany to see that the same conditions prevail th...

Documentary edited from testimonies on the torture of people who experienced the war. Some witnesses were tortured by Jean-Marie Le Pen. These testimonies will help defend the newspaper Le Canard Enchaîné in court against Jean-Marie Le Pen for defama...

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The action takes place in a metallurgical factory which was part of the Pechiney-Ugine-Külhman trust in Couëron, Loire-Atlantique, in 1975. To show their solidarity with their husbands on strike, workers' wives invaded the director's office and obtai...

A documentary road movie with René Vautier In the aftermath of Algeria's independence, René Vautier, a militant filmmaker, considered "the dad" of Algerian cinema, set up the cine-pops. We recreate with him the device of itinerant projections and we...

Divided into five parts, this film traces the long strike by workers at the Caravelair caravan factory in Trigniac, near Saint-Nazaire, led by the C.G.T. and C.F.D.T. unions. Shot in 1975, the film achieved the strange feat of being produced entirely...

Algerian children, survivors of the war and refugeeing in Tunisian camps, recount the tragic events they have experienced, from drawings they have made themselves....

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Under this title are three reports made in the suburbs of Amiens on immigration in France: 1. Le Droit d'aimer - 10 min 2. In the series Les Cris du pigeonnier supervised by Vautier: Brigitte, José et les autres by Marilise Frasson-Marin 3. La Fin...

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Video film on the relationship between immigrant workers and the French working class, shown in working-class and student circles....

When the three popes of militant film in Brittany, grouped together in the Union of Breton Film Production (UPCB), respond with talent to an order from fishermen's bosses... Le poisson commande includes some very beautiful images of the work at sea,...

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Report shot with workers laid off from the Hennebont ironworks in Morbihan. Speaking to other working-class communities, they tell the story of how they were cheated by government and management promises. Workers at the L.I.P. plant in the Besançon a...

March 16, 1978. The Amoco-Cadiz supertanker tanker sank off Portsall, a small port in northern Finistère. This film sets out to demonstrate the misleading information campaign that followed the accident as well as its disastrous ecological consequenc...

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A filmmaker witnesses an act of racist police violence in Paris. He discusses with a friend whether and how he should make a film out of this....