Carole Roussopoulos

Qui a peur des amazones? (2003)

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 thread. Th ...

Stand Up! A History of the Women's Liberation Movement (1999)

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

Les hommes invisibles (1993)

Vagrants, tramps, down and outs, homeless people... There are many people living a wandering life, on the fringe of care services. The CHAPSA (Shelter and Care Centre for the Homeless) at Nanterre hospital is the first state run centre, within a hospital, ...

L'inceste, la conspiration des oreilles bouchées (1988)

Claudine, Monique, Emmanuelle and Anne talk about incest rape, which they suffered during their childhood. They meet through the "Rape-Women-Information" help line. They remember how helpless they felt, and how they tried to make their father or grandfathe ...

L'Égalite professionnelle : ça avance dans les transports (1987)

The film presents a series of portraits of women working in traditional male jobs in the transport industry: the SNCF, the RATP, Air France and Air Inter, and at Paris airports. Each woman talks about her professional choice, her training, what responsibil ...

Les Travailleuses de la mer (1985)

The documentary shows the living and working conditions of two categories of women working in the fishing port of Lorient in Brittany. Close on 800 women work there in conditions that have barely changed in 50 years. They are on their feet all the time, ca ...

Ras-le-bol sous les ponts de Paris (1985)

Profession: Conchylicultrice (1984)

The film portrays six women oyster farmers in the Marennes-Oleron Bay (Charentes-Maritimes). It explores their working and living conditions, the hardships of the profession, the division of tasks between men and women and the professional status of female ...

Ça bouge… à Mondoubleau (1982)

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

Profession : Agricultrices (1982)

Four women farmers working in the Champagne-Ardennes region talk about their working conditions, the part they play in running the farm, the distribution of jobs between husband and wife and the lack of status of their work... They emphasise how denial of ...

Be Pretty and Shut Up! (1981)

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 have o ...

Le Juge et les immigrés (1980)

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. ...

Il ne fait pas chaud (1977)

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. ...

Christiane et Monique - LIP V (1976)

Monique (an advertising assistant) and Christine (a semi-skilled worker) talk about how difficult it is for a woman working in a struggling factory (Lip), about issues of internal democracy within the trade union and the end of work in the current situatio ...

Jacqueline et Marcel - LIP VI (1976)

A couple working at Lip: she is a semi-skilled worker, he is head of production line. They discuss the problems regarding the women's situation, their working conditions, and internal democracy within the union. Charles Piaget gives his point of view, at a ...

Maso and Miso Go Boating (1976)

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. ...

Scum Manifesto (1976)

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

La marche des femmes à Hendaye (1975)

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

The Prostitutes of Lyon Speak (1975)

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

Messe pour un corps (1975)

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. ...

Young Lord (1975)

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, it i ...

La marche du retour des femmes à Chypre (1975)

With the support of delegations of women from all around the world, Cypriot women march peacefully to try to obtain the application of the United Nations resolution, ordering refugees to return home. ...

Les mères espagnoles (1975)

A few hours after Sanchez Bravo's execution, his sister recounts the condemned man's last night. Otaegi's mother talks about her son's life and the last conversation she had with him. Txiki's mother speaks of the solidarity of her village, where she has li ...

La marche de Besançon - LIP II (1973)

This documentary is about the solidarity march supporting the workers on strike at Lip (September 1973). Strikers, including Charles Piaget, talk about the action committee and its relationship to the union structure. Images of the march alternate with sho ...

Monique - LIP I (1973)

August 1973, after the police move into the Lip factory in Besançon, one of the female workers, Monique Piton, talks about the four months of struggle, the place of women and the lessons she has learnt. She is also critical of the role of television. ...

Munich (1972)

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 television and ...

Grève à Jeune Afrique (1972)

After two months of a hard-fought strike, accompanied by a day-and-night occupation of the premises, Jeune Afrique's workers were the victims of a court order authorizing their CEO, Bechir Ben Yahmed, to have them removed by the police. If they resisted, t ...

Vétérans Du Vietnam (Les) (1972)

In this two conferences about Vietnam, people denounce the violence of the american government. Veterans speak about their experience, the control of the media over the representation of the war and establish a link between what happens in Vietnam and how ...

F.H.A.R. (1971)

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 revolut ...

Just Don't Fuck! (1971)

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

Gabrielle Nanchen (1971)

Gabrielle Nanchen, the first Swiss woman socialist deputy to the National Council is interviewed on the very day that women obtain the right to vote in Switzerland and in her canton, Valais. The film also collects the reactions of the Valais peasants. ...

Angela Davis Is at Your Mercy (1970)

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. ...

Delphine and Carole (2020)

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 represent ...

Scum Manifesto (1976)

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