Democracy Archives - Le Cinéma sous les étoiles de Funambules Médias

Non-Aligned: Scenes from the Labudovic Reels

Serbian archive reels unveil anti-imperialist struggles and the Non-Aligned Movement. Mila Turajlic meets filmmaker Stevan Labudovic to unveil these forgotten images and their global political impact.

, Democracy, Politics, Sociology

Farming the Revolution

, Nishtha Jain, X_Co-Réalisateur/Co-Director : Akash Basumatari

Farming the Revolution takes us to the heart of the massive year-long protests against the Indian government's unjust farm laws. The film crew lives among the half million farmers to make us experience the daily texture and indomitable spirit of this historic movement.

, Agriculture, Culture, Democracy, Politics, Rurality, Social struggle

Nous n'avons pas peur des ruines

, Yannis Youlountas

Mitsotakis succeeds Tsipras in Greece, aiming to suppress Exarcheia. Resistance intensifies, uniting other European cities. Struggles erupt across the country for land, sea, and life.

, Democracy, Human Rights, Politics, Social struggle

Le balai libéré

, Coline Grando

In the 1970s, cleaning ladies from the Catholic University of Louvain threw out their employer and founded Le Balai Libéré, a cleaning cooperative. Decades later, today's staff question the relevance of bossless work by meeting these pioneers.

, Democracy, Economy, Feminism, Work

The Flag

, Joseph Paris

Yasser, a human rights activist, explores Paris to share a neglected truth, while Joseph, a filmmaker, accompanies him to analyze France's identitarian withdrawal through the evolution of political and media discourse over five decades. Their quest confronts the present with history to grasp the continuing regression of our freedoms.

, Democracy, Human Rights, Politics, Racism, Sociology

CSE 2023

Wochiigii lo: End of the Peace

, Heather Hatch

Produced over five years by Haida filmmaker Heather Hatch, this documentary follows the struggle of members of the West Moberly and Prophet River First Nations against the construction of a mega-dam that will devastate the « rivière de la Paix ».

, Colonialism, Democracy, Environnement, First nations

CSE 2023

2012/Throught the Heart

, Arnaud Valade, Rodrigue Jean

Using footage from both amateur and professional sources, 2012/Throught the Heart immerses us into the intensity of the demonstrations and riots of the 2012 student strike.

, Democracy, Social struggle

CSE 2023

Tax Me If You Can

, Yannick Kergoat

With rigor, and a dose of humor, Tax Me If You Can explains the mechanisms of tax havens and demonstrates how tax evasion, an essential cog in the neoliberal system, accelerates the growth of economic inequality.

, Democracy, Economy, Human Rights, Politics

CSE 2023

The silence of the Mole

, Anaïs Taracena

Tout au long des années 1970, le journaliste Elías Barahona s’infiltre au cœur du gouvernement militaire le plus répressif du Guatemala. In seeking to uncover the story of this secret and unique individual, The Silence of the Mole opens cracks in the walls of silence.

, Democracy, Human Rights, Politics, Social struggle

CSE 2023

Returning to Reims

, Jean-Gabriel Périot

Through the autobiographical essay of sociologist and philosopher Didier Eribon, performed by Adèle Haenel, "Retour à Reims" (Fragments) tells an intimate and political story of the French working class from the early 1950s to the present day.

, Democracy, Economy, Politics, Social struggle, Sociology