Movies: Carole Roussopoulos

In the 70s, actress Delphine Seyrig and director Carole Roussopoulos, both militant feminists, were the pioneers of video activism in France. They documented the demonstrations of French feminists and used the new technologies to counter the poor rep...

The film is a series of interviews with various well-known film actresses, including Jenny Agutter, Maria Schneider, and Jane Fonda. The title, which is borrowed from a 1958 film with the same name by Marc Allegret, refers to the sense the actresses ...

The year 1975 is declared “year of the woman”. On this occasion Bernard Pivot invited Françoise Giroud on television, then Secretary of State for Women. Faced with statements, a group of women filmmakers parody the issues in a provocative way....

Delphine Seyrig reads passages from a Valerie Solanas’s SCUM manifesto....

In September 1972, a Palestinian commando called the Black September took the Israeli delegation hostage at the Munich Olympics. This film, which denounces the hypocrisy of this illusory "Olympic peace", is a montage of images from official televisi...

Four women: Claudine, Emmanuelle, Monique and Anne testify to the rapes committed by their father or grandfather during their childhood. These women of different ages and social backgrounds meet each week as part of the rape women Information group....

Demonstration by FHAR, the Homosexual Revolutionary Action Front, the 1st of May 1971. People discuss at the University of Vincennes and show a common determination to break prejudice and open minds. They refuse to hide anymore, and talk about this r...

The lesbian community of Geneva wears its name well - Lestime - as an affirmation of pride, openness, and also of strength. This film offers numerous testimonies on being a lesbian today, with Catherine Gaillard's show, Les Amazones, as a common thre...

A documentary about the feminist movement in France and Switzerland in the 1970s, retracing the history, the struggles, the achievements, and the upheavals....

Document on the struggle of immigrant workers on strike for rent in Sonacotra homes with the support, in terms of legal defense, of Jacques Verges, lawyer, and judge Bidalou....

Pupils in Year 9 at Mondoubleau High School discuss in depth female and male roles and gender equality....

Documentary about the Lyon sex workers who occupied the church of St. Nizier on June 3, 1975....

In the aftermath of the arrest of Angela Davis, Jean Genet reads a text denouncing racist US policy, supporting the Black Panthers party and Angela Davis for a television show that will be completely censored....

Documentary about the practice of abortion in France in the early seventies, at a time when it was still illegal....

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In two parts, it documents the litigation of Brigitte Fontaine, Monique Piton, Mireille and Erin Pizzey with Éditions de femmes in 1976 and those of Catherine Leguay and Brigitte Fontaine in 1977....

A young woman talks about the "Young Lord", the Puerto Ricans who are living in the United States but do not have the necessary diploma to find work. The movie tracks back the story of the movement, born in 1969. Inspired by the american black fights...

Women walk in protest against executions of Basque militants by Franco regimen....

At the fishing port of Lorient in Brittany, nearly 800 women work, filleters by day, fish sorters by night. Some testify to the conditions in which they exercise their profession, conditions almost unchanged for fifty years: in the cold, humidity an...

In "Messe pour un corps", Michel Journiac organizes a real religious service and makes the participants receive communion with a black pudding made from his own blood....