René Vautier

La loi du silence

Moïra Chappedelaine-Vautier

René Vautier, Pierre Vidal-Naquet

Commune présence

Michaël Dacheux

René Vautier, Yann Gachet

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 people throughout the night, looking for ways to act and imagine collectively.

The Madwoman of Toujane

Nicole Le Garrec, René Vautier

Gilles Servat, Micheline Welter

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 there.

Quand les femmes ont pris la colère

Soazig Chappedelaine, René Vautier

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 obtained in two hours what was refused to them for months. But the management complained and sued. Twelve wives were charged with forcible confinement. The mobilization then widened. The women called on the Bretagne Cinema Production Unit (UPCB) to make a film about their struggle. Narrating the courageous action of solidarity of women with the strikers of the factory and the emergence of a collective awareness, both feminist and working-class, the film is also an echo chamber sensitive to the aspirations of the twelve women who were charged.

Mourir pour des images

René Vautier

Returns to ‘La Mer et les jours’ (1958), a film by Alain Kaminker and René Vogel during the filming of which Kaminker disappeared in the sea.

Peuple en marche

Nacer Guenifi, René Vautier

In 1962, René Vautier, together with some Algerian friends, organised the audio-visual formation centre Ben Aknoun to encourage a "dialogue in images" between the two factions. Together with his students he made a film that shows the history of the Algerian War and of the ALN (National Liberation Army), and life during the reconstruction.

J'ai huit ans

Olga Baïdar-Poliakoff, René Vautier

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

Les anneaux d'or

René Vautier, Mustapha Fersi

Claudia Cardinale, René Vautier

At the time of Tunisian independence, owners of large boats decide to sell, while many small fishermen soon find themselves without work. Their wives then decide to pool their gold rings to sell them and thus buy boats.

Quand tu disais, Valéry

René Vautier, Nicole Le Garrec

Directed by Nicole Le Garrec and René Vautier.

Afrique 50

René Vautier

René Vautier

Afrique 50 is a 1950 French documentary film directed by René Vautier. The first French anti-colonialist film, the film derived from an assignment in which the director was to cover educational activities by the French League of Schooling in West Africa. Vautier later filmed what he saw, a "lack of teachers and doctors, the crimes committed by the French Army in the name of France, the instrumentalization of the colonized peoples". For his role in the film Vautier was imprisoned over several months. The film was not permitted to be shown for more than 40 years.

To Be Twenty in the Aures

René Vautier

Alexandre Arcady, Hamid Djelloli

Four commandos are disciplined for failure to follow orders by being assigned to an especially dangerous and disagreeable mission: to capture enemy Algerian soldiers.

Algérie en flammes

René Vautier

Sophia Loren

These are the first images shot in the ALN maquis, camera in hand, at the end of 1956 and in 1957. These war images taken in the Aurès-Nementchas are intended to be the basis of a dialogue between French and Algerians for peace in Algeria, by demonstrating the existence of an armed organization close to the people. Three versions of Algeria in Flames are produced: French, German and Arabic. From the end of the editing, the film circulates without any cuts throughout the world, except in France where the first screening takes place in the occupied Sorbonne in 1968. Certain images of the film have circulated and are found in films, in particular Algerian films. Because of the excitement caused by this film, he was forced to go into hiding for 25 months. After the declaration of independence, he founded the first Algerian Audiovisual Center.

Humain, trop humain

René Vautier, Louis Malle

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

À propos de... l'autre détail

René Vautier

During the period Le Pen was running for president, this documentary juxtaposes testimonies from several Algerians who attest they were tortured at his hands while he was a lieutenant in the war.

Le Glas

René Vautier

Djibril Diop Mambéty

Narrated by Djibril Diop this film denounces the hanging of three African revolutionaries in Salisbury, South Africa.

Algérie Tours/Détours

Oriane Brun-Moschetti, Leila Morouche

René Vautier

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 travel the country in ciné-bus (Algiers, Béjaïa, Tizi Ouzou, Tébessa) to hear the voices of the spectators on the political situation, youth and living conditions of men and Of women today.