Ioana Wieder

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.

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.

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

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.

Documentary about feminist protests on the 1st of May of 1976

After a series of rapes in broad daylight in 1985, a demonstration takes place in September. Leaflets accuse the "immigrant criminal underworld." Immigrants and Muslims are blamed. Eight feminists: Claire Atherton (editing), Claire Auzias, Marie-Jo Dhavernas, Catherine Deudon, Anne Faisandier (camera), Liliane Kandel, Nadja Ringart and Ioana Wieder want to testify and fight sexism wherever they come from and whoever the authors are. They decide to realize a documentary. They meet Souad Benani and Malika Bennabi, activists of the group Les Nanas Beurs, then Fatima and Rosa, activists of SOS Racisme. Then three anti-racist activists : Harlem Désir, Adil Jazouli, Sami Nair to discuss it.