Carole Roussopoulos

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 of what is expected of them by the film industry.

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 the essential role they play in running the farm has led them to demand specific recognition of their job. Presentation of the Women's Association for Agricultural Development (AFDA).

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.

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 images filmed in the Palestinian refugee camps of Jordan in September 1971 (Black September), in full repression of the Palestinian people by the armies of King Hussein.

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

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

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.

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 revolution of desire.

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.

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 farmers. Several women in the oyster-farming bay form a professional association.

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 is at first a very political movement. it gets more social around 1970. The movie makes us discover a place of refuge for the junkies. They talk about the difficult life conditions of the minorities, about drogue problems and about the initiatives that are meant to help them. They denounce a governmental plan which is supposed to get ride of the blacks and Puerto Ricans by using drogues: the methadone substitution program, legal and provided by the government, holds the junkies into a mental slavery, which drives them to their death. They also talk about the whole propaganda system and the mental conditioning of society.

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, carrying heavy loads and working with ice in the cold and the damp. At night, women sort the fish, by day others filet the fish (tidal and processing workers).

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

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

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, they risked falling foul of the law against rioters. To avoid the African comrades being deported from France, the strikers decided to leave. But before leaving, they organized a demonstration of solidarity with hundreds of journalists from the traditional and revolutionary press.

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 lived for eleven years, a widow with seven children. She denounces the "phantom" trial, the torture and murder of her son.

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 responsibilities she holds, where she fits within the company, and her work relationships. They all underline the need to be organised to manage personal and professional lives, and the growing number of women who choose these jobs. They are on the whole positive and their views often inspiring.

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.

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 black people are treated in the United States.

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.

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

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. The direct testimonies of those who are in the front line to defend the rights of lesbians, their representativeness, their visibility are their contribution to change mentalities within the family, the school, and the working world, so that lesbians can live without fear.

A new prison at Mauzac (Dordogne), built in 1985, opens in 1986. It is designed for 240 prisoners. Its concept and modus operandi are inspired by the liberal tradition of the old Mauzac camp to which it is linked by a bridge.