Angela Davis Is at Your Mercy

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.

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

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.

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

Shellfish harvesters from the Marennes-Oléron basin (Charente-Maritime) testify to their living and working conditions: difficulties in the profession, distribution of tasks between men and women, advantages of co-detention, creation of an association to end their isolation and improve their status. Interviews and scenes of work at sea and at the "cabin" help to paint a moving portrait of courageous and energetic women.

At the fishing port of Lorient in Brittany, nearly 800 women work, filleters by day, fish sorters by night. Some testify to the conditions in which they exercise their profession, conditions almost unchanged for fifty years: in the cold, humidity and ice, standing, carrying heavy loads, and always without status.

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 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.

In 1976, like the title "Liberation", "Lip, c'est reparti!" In Besançon, workers reoccupy the factory and revive the production of watches. Monique, now an advertising assistant (cf. Monique-LIP I), and Christiane, a specialized worker, bear witness to the difficulty of being a woman in a struggling factory, of the difficult democracy faced with the tenors of union demands and subversive rejection to see work as an end in itself.