Françoise Davisse
1993 - 52 min - Betacam SP - Couleur - France
118 rue Saint-Antoine, Roubaix, in northern France.
A red staircase. Seven apartments surrounded by blocks in the process of being torn down. People here are more than just neighbours. No-one has a job. No-one has had one for a long time. Some have never had one.
Everyone lives on welfare. They have to find wood for heating, queue up at the social security offices, or at charity organisations, to get through the month. But these aren't "poor people", not by any means. They haven't given up on life, on love, on laughing or thinking about the world.
In this film, we see how parents and children refuse made into be outcasts.
Author-Director : Françoise Davisse
Delegate Producer : Contrechamp, Point du Jour
Co-producer : France 2
Contribution : Caisse des dépôts et consignations, Fondation Elf, Reporters sans frontières