Movies: Iskra

  • 1977
    A Grin Without a Cat

    A Grin Without a Cat (1977)

    A Grin Without a Cat

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    French essay film focusing on global political turmoil in the 1960s and '70s, particularly the rise of the New Left in France and the development of socialist movements in Latin America....

    A Grin Without a Cat
  • 2003
    More Vampires in Havana

    More Vampires in Havana (2003)

    More Vampires in Havana

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    In 1923 the scientist Von Dracula invented Vampisol, a drink that allowed vampires to live in the sun. La Capa Nostra and the European Vampire Group confront each other in Havana to control the Vampisol, but Pepe, Von Dracula's nephew, sang the Vampi...

    More Vampires in Havana
  • 1968
    Be Seeing You

    Be Seeing You (1968)

    Be Seeing You

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    A documentary look at striking workers in a textile plant in Besançon, France, centering on interviews with workers about their motivations for becoming involved with the union and the struggles of their day to day life....

    Be Seeing You
  • 1966
    If I Had Four Dromedaries

    If I Had Four Dromedaries (1966)

    If I Had Four Dromedaries

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    Composed entirely of still photographs shot by Marker himself over the course of his restless travel through twenty-six countries, If I Had Four Dromedaries stages a probing, at times agitated, search for the meanings of the photographic image, in th...

    If I Had Four Dromedaries
  • 1994
    Vukovar Poste Restante

    Vukovar Poste Restante (1994)

    Vukovar Poste Restante

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    The violent break-up of former Yugoslavia is described from the Serbian point of view, using the story of ethnically mixed couple in war-torn city of Vukovar as metaphor....

    Vukovar Poste Restante
  • 1968
    Cinétracts

    Cinétracts (1968)

    Cinétracts

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    A series of 43 documentary shorts, directed (without credit) by several famous French filmmakers and each running between two and four minutes. Each "tract" espouses a leftist political viewpoint through the filmed depiction of real-life events, incl...

    Cinétracts
  • 1979
    The Patriot Game

    The Patriot Game (1979)

    The Patriot Game

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    Recounts Ireland's history from British colonization to the territory's division in 1922, then from 1968 details a decade of events through images and eyewitness accounts of killings and such massacres as the infamous "Bloody Sunday" as the IRA argue...

    The Patriot Game
  • 1971
    The Slightest Gesture

    The Slightest Gesture (1971)

    The Slightest Gesture

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    Writer and pedagogue Fernand Deligny influenced a number of artists and French intellectuals. His work on autism influenced Deleuze and Guattari's theory of the rhizome. Francois Truffaut turned to his ideas to complete Les 400 Coups. Throughout the ...

    The Slightest Gesture
  • 2021
    Earning a Living - Ten Years in Marta's Life

    Earning a Living - Ten Years in Marta's Life (2021)

    Earning a Living - Ten Years in Marta's Life

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    Marta and Karina are sex workers also studying to become lawyers. Filmed over ten years, this documentary captures their unlikely journey from prostitution to the defense of women's rights....

    Earning a Living - Ten Years in Marta's Life
  • 2022
    Que m'est-il permis d'espérer

    Que m'est-il permis d'espérer (2022)

    Que m'est-il permis d'espérer

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    In a humanitarian camp opened in Paris, refugees are in transit. In this "first reception" center, they are resting from the street where they were stranded when they arrived in France. A few days of humanity, that we spend with them. But already, th...

    Que m'est-il permis d'espérer
  • 2019
    Les Révoltés

    Les Révoltés (2019)

    Les Révoltés

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    In May 1968, workers, students and young people rise up against the morality and power of the establishment. Faculties and factories are under occupation. Barricades are erected. Paving slabs are launched. Words give way to actions. This is the confr...

    Les Révoltés
  • 1971
    Les trois quarts de la vie

    Les trois quarts de la vie (1971)

    Les trois quarts de la vie

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    Young French immigrants to Sochaux dismantle the mechanism of exploitation in their daily lives as it was thought by Peugeot. They play and tell about the recruitment, hiring, scheduling, housing, and struggle that has been done in the ALTM - Homes f...

    Les trois quarts de la vie
  • 1968
    Film-Tract n° 1968

    Film-Tract n° 1968 (1968)

    Film-Tract n° 1968

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    In the 1968 movement in Paris, Jean-Luc Godard made a 16mm, 3-minute long film, Film-tract No.1968, Le Rouge, in collaboration with French artist Gérard Fromanger. Starting with the shot identifying its title written in red paint on the Le Monde for ...

    Film-Tract n° 1968
  • 1968
    La Charnière

    La Charnière (1968)

    La Charnière

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    SOUND DOCUMENTARY On April 27, 1968, workers from the Rhodiaceta factory in Besançon gathered at the village hall of Palente-les-Orchamps to attend the screening of the film À bientôt j'espoir by Mario Marret and Chris Marker. This documentary sound...

    La Charnière
  • 2012
    Candidats pour du beur ?

    Candidats pour du beur ? (2012)

    Candidats pour du beur ?

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    Candidats pour du beur ?
  • 2012
    À l'ombre de la République

    À l'ombre de la République (2012)

    À l'ombre de la République

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    À l'ombre de la République
  • 2023
    Les habits de nos vies

    Les habits de nos vies (2023)

    Les habits de nos vies

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    Les habits de nos vies
  • 2017
    Les Parisiens d'août

    Les Parisiens d'août (2017)

    Les Parisiens d'août

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    Les Parisiens d'août
  • 2003
    Hélène aux urgences

    Hélène aux urgences (2003)

    Hélène aux urgences

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    Hélène aux urgences
  • 1969
    Rhodia 4/8

    Rhodia 4/8 (1969)

    Rhodia 4/8

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    A class struggle " Music Video ", in which Colette Magny sings a song in honor of the workers of the textile factory Rhodiacéta, whose six-week strike in 1967 caused a stir...

    Rhodia 4/8