In spite of an uprising during the second Republic, the promised agrarian reform never took place and now, seventy years after Franco's coup d'etat, andalusian farmers are still subject to the arbitrariness of the major landowners. But after Franco's death, some farmers organised themselves, conquered land under the control of the big landowners, founded agricultural municipalities and created co-operatives. In Marinaleda, according to slogans painted on the walls, the egalitarian utopia is under way.

The story of a failed encounter between two cultures with different sensitivities and fantasies. This led to colonisation - one marked by brutality - despite the fact that wars, chaos and destruction could have been avoided. Based on archive footage, the film sends a chant echoing infinitely through time and space: "France is our homeland".

La France est un Empire is a fresco on the grandeur of France. A film that proudly recounts the history of the creation of the French empire in less than a century (from 1814 to 1912). Propaganda with a clear conscience in regards to how France embarked on the civilizing mission that it had imposed on itself, and all the benefits that ensued from the colonisation of the “natives.” In this sense, it is an almost ethnographic testimony on how France saw itself on the eve of WWII. Seventy years on, the illusion has not dissipated, which is why Sandrine Lemaire's lucid analysis is so important in terms of restoring the truth about this adventure.

The Law of Silence, a graduation documentary from La Fémis by Moïra Chappedelaine-Vautier, Nadia Zibat, and Raoul Seigneur, explores the 1963 Amnesty Law and its consequences on research conducted about the Algerian War. It features interviews conducted in 2002 with Henri Alleg, director of the Alger Républicain newspaper from 1951 to 1955, and Pierre Vidal-Naquet, historian and essayist. The film also includes striking statements from General Massu and lawyers who dismantle the legal defenses of figures like Jean-Marie Le Pen. Moïra not only gives voice to her father, René Vautier, but also reuses footage he shot forty years earlier. A very compelling documentary that reminds us, among other things, that amnesty is not forgiveness, but the erasure of both the sentence and the crime itself.

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