Tue, Nov 29, 2022
In a secondary school in the Bas-Rhin region, some fourth-grade students refuse to attend swimming pool class, citing religious reasons. Director Clarisse Feletin dives into the management of this crisis, which puts the teaching staff on a knife-edge, two years after the murder of Samuel Paty. The life of the school is turned upside down, as is that of the city's Turkish community, to which some of the students belong. At the same time, in Paris, at the Ministry of Education, the members of the Council of Wise Men in charge of secularism open their door to a camera for the first time as they try to provide answers to the teachers and their disoriented management. What support does the teaching team have to ensure that secularism is respected in their school?
Tue, Oct 4, 2022
In June 2019, the chambermaids at France's largest Ibis hotel, Porte de Clichy, in Paris, decided to break out of their silence and self-denial. They went on strike to denounce the infernal pace of work, the unpaid work and the harsh conditions inflicted on them by the Accor group via the subcontractor that employs them. In court, they dared to speak of exploitation and discrimination on the part of the leading European hotel group and third largest in the world. It is an entire system that is being singled out in this fight that they have been waging, without respite, for almost two years. For Rachel Kéké, spokesperson for the movement, Sylvie Kimissa and the others, it is a primordial and uncertain struggle that has begun and is turning their lives upside down.
Tue, Oct 18, 2022
Denain, a small commune of 20,000 inhabitants in the north of France, has never recovered from the closure of its huge Usinor steelworks 40 years ago. Today it is one of the poorest towns in France. It is emblematic of the France of the invisible, of those whose voices are almost never heard on television. This documentary follows Allan and Chloé, two children from Denain who are now young adults, in their family intimacy. Through their lives, their loved ones and the scenery that surrounds them, the film questions their aspirations to stay or not to stay in this land that they both love and reject, in order to build their own future.