Working to the Beat

A group of women is pounding millet to the rhythm of a song, a farmer is hoeing his field in tempo, and a man is dancing to the sound of drums during a ritual of possession. Those are scenes taken from previous films by

The Comedy of Work

Sylvain Berg, a "professional" unemployed who spends his time hiking and mountain climbing, and "model" bank employee Benoît Constant, who has just been fired and does not want his wife to find out, both find themselves

Coût du travail

Le bonheur au travail

People spend the majority of their lives at work. And happiness is known to be man's greatest asset. So it makes sense to think about how happy employees are at their workplace. The documentary presents innovative concep

Georges Courteline au travail & Boubouroche

Ni travail, ni famille, ni patrie

They were high schoolers, students, sons of peasants, workers. Among them were Jews, foreigners and Communists. Some were born in France, others in Poland, Hungary, Romania, Italy, Spain or Brazil. In 1939, they didn't k

Travail d'arabe

Vowing to get back on the right track, a petty delinquent gets a real job, but quickly discovers that his new employers are not very scrupulous.

Travail à mort

A Jobless World?

The "Uberisation" of the world is upon us, as we’re all aware. But it might be only a foretaste of what awaits us in the near future: will it be an unprecedented disruption in the history of mankind or quite simply the e

A Job Well Done

In a gritty neighborhood of Geneva, a double-decker bus becomes a refuge where social workers guide refugees through the labyrinth of Swiss asylum laws. On the frontlines of a Kafkaesque struggle, they face ethical dilem

Strength in Numbers

A bear sneezes so hard that a huge boulder falls across the entrance, trapping him inside. Who will help?

Iron Work

Directed by Célia Canning and Néry Catineau.

Et voilà le travail

Chile: Order Work Obedience

Swiss television documentary on the first years of the dictatorship, filmed (in color) in 1977 by a team led by director André Gazut and journalist Claude Smadja. Strongly critical of authoritarianism and the failures of

Four Belgian Painters at Work

Belgian art historian and filmmaker Paul Haesaerts (1901–1974) made a significant contribution to the promotion of modern Flemish art. In the late 1940s, he started experimenting with the medium of film to practice a new

Gisèle Ansorge at Work

A highly distinctive documentary, conceived as both a making-of and an intimate visual essay, the film dispenses with any fictional narrative to delve into the intimacy of the couple's studio in Etagnières. In it, Ernest

Et le travail fût

C'est quoi ce travail ?

They are at work. The employees of a factory, which produces 800,000 car parts a day, and composer Nicolas Frize, who invents his musical creation alongside the workers inside the workshop. Each in their own way talks ab

Conditions de travail des clowns

Elephants at Work

Short registration of activities performed by elephants. Shooting of work in a wooded area using elephants. Images can be seen of an elephant that uproots heavy trees, brings the wood away and splits a tree trunk in two