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On a grèvé
On a grèvé (2014)
, 1h10
Directed by Denis Gheerbrant
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about the labor movement, Documentaire sur le monde du travail

Le documentaire suit la grève de femmes de chambre employées par des sociétés sous-traitantes de deux hôtels : « Première classe » et « Campanile » du groupe Louvre Hôtels. Aidées par la CGT et la CNT, ces femmes ont obtenu satisfaction sur une grande partie de leurs revendications.
The Chef's Wife
The Chef's Wife (2013)
, 1h31
Directed by Anne Le Ny
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about the labor movement
Actors Karin Viard, Emmanuelle Devos, Roschdy Zem, Anne Le Ny, Philippe Rebbot, Annie Mercier

Marithé works in a training centre and her task is to assist people who are seeking alternative job options. One day, Carole arrives at the centre. She has never completed her studies and is starting to feel overshadowed by her husband, Sam, a talented Michelin-starred chef. It seems that it is not a job that Carole needs, but rather about her asserting her own independence and to leave her husband; and Marithé does all to help Carole to set out down a new path. However, things become complicated when the man Marithé is secretly attracted to is Sam.
Voices of Transition
Voices of Transition (2012)
, 1h5
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Themes Environmental films, La mondialisation, Films about the labor movement, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about environmental issues, Documentary films about technology, Documentaire sur le monde du travail, Disaster films

Using interviews and overlays of graphics and text, the film presents the current problems facing industrial agriculture. It explores why in the interviewees' view the current industrial model is not up to the task of feeding the world's people. According to the film every calorie of energy contained in a food source currently takes between 10 and 20 calories of crude oil in the production of fertilizers and transportation to produce, leading to a strong dependence of the cost of food on oil prices. As a result of peak oil and increasing oil prices this dependence will lead to ever increasing food prices. According to the film, this dependence already represents a significant weak-spot in the global food supply chain. Additionally, agriculture is already responsible for 40% of greenhouse gas emissions, contributing to climate change. Furthermore, the film argues that the overuse of inorganic fertilizers has been responsible for the loss of soil fertility and threatens the complete loss of usable soil within the next decades through soil erosion and sinking crop yields. These effects, according to the film, can only be partly mitigated by the increased use of those same fertilizers. The loss of workplaces, the concentration of land in the hands of a few (allegedly a farm closes every 23 minutes in France) as well as the dependence on large corporations are enumerated as side effects of the industrialisation of agriculture since the 1920s. Companies, such as Monsanto and Bayer, control everything from seed stock to fertilizers and the necessary chemical mixes for hybrid plants, thereby controlling the entire supply chain. The film argues that this development was supported through subsidies from the World Bank. Interviews with Vandana Shiva, the founder of the Transition Towns movement Rob Hopkins and various agricultural experts serve to argue this viewpoint. The dependence on crude oil is illustrated through the example of the wholesale food market in Rungis.
Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret
Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret (2014)
, 1h31
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about animals, Environmental films, Politique, Films about the labor movement, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about animal rights, Documentaire animalier, Documentary films about law, Documentary films about environmental issues, Documentaire sur le monde du travail, Political films, Documentary films about nature

Cowspiracy est un documentaire d'importance majeure. Controversé, il se penche sur l'impact de l'élevage sur l'environnement. Kip Andersen, producteur et directeur du film, révèle des informations exclusives portant sur les politiques de groupes environnementaux comme Greenpeace, Sierra Club, Surfrider Foundation, and Rainforest Action Network en plus de statistiques alarmantes sur les impacts que génèrent la consommation de viande.
Palot
Palot (1947)
, 16minutes
Directed by Armand Chartier
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about the labor movement, Documentaire sur le monde paysan, Documentaire sur le monde du travail

Dans un village du Jura, les habitants attendent la livraison du tracteur commandé par la coopérative de matériel agricole sur la proposition de Palot, un jeune paysan.
Le tampon du capiston
Le tampon du capiston (1950)
, 1h35
Directed by Maurice Labro
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films about the labor movement, Films based on plays, Harcèlement au travail
Actors Rellys, Jean Tissier, Pauline Carton, Yves Robert, Véra Norman, Olivier Mathot

Cochu, un paysan, est le souffre-douleur de ses camarades de régiment. Il est nommé « tampon du capiston », c'est-à-dire ordonnance du capitaine. Mais il se retrouve au service d'Hortense, la sœur du capitaine.
Still Life
Still Life (2013)
, 1h27
Directed by Uberto Pasolini
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about the labor movement
Actors Eddie Marsan, Joanne Froggatt, Andrew Buchan, Paul Anderson, Bronson Webb

John May est un fonctionnaire communal qui vit seul. Son travail consiste à retrouver les parents les plus proches de personnes mortes dans une solitude totale. Il effectue son travail avec le soin le plus méticuleux et mène une vie tranquille et ordinaire, faite de rites quotidiens qui en deviennent obsessionnels. Un jour, on lui confie le cas de Billy Stoke, un alcoolique mort dans la solitude à quelques pas de sa propre maison. Il commence alors à recueillir des indices sur sa vie et à chercher les personnes auxquelles il a été lié. Mais, à cause de la crise économique, on lui fait savoir que son service est en passe d'être réduit, qu’il est en surnombre et va être licencié. Il ne se laisse pas abattre et convainc son chef de lui donner encore un peu de temps pour terminer sa dernière enquête. Pendant ses recherches, il fait la connaissance de Kelly, la fille que Billy Stoke a abandonnée dans son enfance et, au cours de ses voyages à la recherche des personnes qui ont connu Stoke, John a l'occasion de savourer à nouveau la vie. Cela ne durera pas longtemps et il mourra lui-même dans une solitude totale, comme tous ceux qu’il avait suivis pendant son travail, lesquels, dans un final onirique et fascinant, lui rendront un hommage reconnaissant.
Cart
Cart (2014)
, 1h50
Genres Drama
Themes Films about the labor movement, Political films
Actors Yeom Jeong-a, Moon Jung-hee, Kim Young-ae, Cheon Woo-hee, D.O., Kim Kang-woo

Sun-hee, a veteran cashier and mother of two, works at a large retail supermarket alongside Hye-mi, a single mother. Both are friendly with Soon-rye, a cleaning lady nearing retirement age, and all of them are temporary workers. Sun-hee is a model employee who works diligently in the belief that once she gets promoted as a regular worker, she'll be able to provide more for her children. However, their corporate employer abruptly notifies them that all the temporary workers will be laid off. Faced with these wrongful dismissals, Sun-hee, Hye-mi, Soon-rye, and fellow female employees such as naive ajumma Ok-soon and twenty-something Mi-jin, resolve to go on strike. They stage a series of increasingly impassioned protests against the company's exploitative practices, which gains more strength when junior manager Dong-joon, the only male representative of the store's labor union, joins in. The shy and passive Sun-hee, who finds herself thrust to the demonstrations' front lines, discovers within herself untapped resources of determination and resilience, which has an unexpected effect on her relationship with her estranged high school-age son, Tae-young. But as the women realize the power they can wield by taking a mutual stand, the company plays the workers against each other and Hye-mi, the leader of the strike, caves to the company's pressure and gives up.
The Price We Pay
The Price We Pay (2014)

Origin Canada
Genres Documentary
Themes La mondialisation, Films about the labor movement, Documentary films about business, Documentaire sur le monde du travail

Le documentaire porte sur les mécanismes d'évasion fiscale grâce auxquels les multinationales parviennent à ne pas payer des milliards de dollars en impôt. Cette évasion fiscale conduit à un accroissement des inégalités de revenu, et appauvrit les classes moyennes. Le film s'efforce en particulier de montrer le rôle de la place financière de Londres dans cette évasion fiscale en s'appuyant notamment sur l'expertise du Tax Justice Network.
The Rules of the Game
The Rules of the Game (2014)
, 1h46
Directed by Patrice Chagnard, Claudine Bories
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about the labor movement, La précarité, Documentaire sur le monde du travail

En recherche d'emploi, un groupe de jeunes du Nord-Pas-de-Calais suivent une formation dans le cabinet Ingeus, société privée spécialisée dans l'insertion professionnelle.
Today and Tomorrow
Today and Tomorrow (2014)
, 1h28
Origin Chine
Genres Drama
Themes Films about the labor movement

Tang Jia Ling est un petit village près de Pékin où se sont réfugiés des milliers de jeunes gens à la recherche de loyers peu chers. ils sont remplis d'espoirs de réussite et sont dans l'espoir de décrocher le travail qui leur permettra de réaliser leurs rêves de jeunes adultes. On les appelle la tribu des fourmis.