René Vautier Movies

In 1962, René Vautier, together with some Algerian friends, organised the audio-visual formation centre Ben Aknoun to encourage a "dialogue in...

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.

2039... A third world war on every continent... Isolated in an old building with his partner, a young man refuses to seek shelter during an alert. He...

An adaptation of the novel by the famous soil writer Vasily Belov, raising the problems of the harmful influence of Western civilization on the...

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...

In his documentary "Humain, Trop Humain," Louis Malle presents his meditative investigation of the inner workings of a French automotive plant.

The essay by René Vautier, "Déjà le sang de Mai ensemençait Novembre", starts with the recapitulation of the...

Anti-apartheid film, co-produced by South Africa's African National Congress

The Law of Silence, a final-year documentary by Moïra Chappedelaine-Vautier at Femis, examines the 1963 Amnesty Law and the consequences it had...

In 1997, the committed filmmaker Jean Asselmeyer, armed with his camera, posed the following question at the General Assembly of Documentary Film in...

Resistance fighter under the occupation, committed to the FLN during the Algerian war, member of the Medvedkine group after May 1968 and defender of...

Guided by a letter from an childhood friend, a young man visits places and people from the past marked by history and commitment. He then meets other...

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

March 16, 1978. The Amoco-Cadiz supertanker tanker sank off Portsall, a small port in northern Finistère. This film sets out to demonstrate...