Catalogue des films de « Monique Dartonne »

The key to the communal laundry room in the block of flats on Rue de Genève 85 in Lausanne serves a much greater function than merely unlocking the door. This encounter between a symbol of typical Swiss mentality with a penchant for order and the...

Once upon a time in Paris, a woman, forty years old, photographer. Her Italian husband, and her young daughter, are on holidays, in Sicily. It's summer. And it's warm. She's alone and feels free. She can work whenever she wants about her project:...

Cases of crews abandoned by their unscrupulous ship-owners on rusting cargo ships in ports thousands of miles from home have plagued seafarers from emerging nations for over a decade. In Limbo is the inside story of two such dramatic cases in...

Kady is 50 years old. She came from Ivory Coast 17 years ago and is raising her 7 children in Paris. Between joy and despair, she's fighting for them not to suffer from what she went through. "Even whites wouldn't have put up with all that!" But...

This is the story of Marie-Amélie, Nantenin, Assia and Audrey whose dream is to attend the 2008 Peking’s Paralympics Games. Each of them lives with a severe handicap that is nonetheless quickly forgotten when hanging around them, because their...

In the ghetto in Nadejda in the heart of Bulgaria, Angel Tichaliev and the other activists of the Romany Gypsy Youth Organisation, a local NGO, are running a school desegregation programme to combat the scandalous discriminations that still affect...

In Belgium, they have this thing called a boîte à tartines (a lunchbox). It is ordinary, functional and usual. It is not found in any French-language dictionary, but everyday, numerous people use it to transport their lunch, usually sandwiches....

On Palawan Island in the Philippines, an indigenous mountain community is struggling to save its traditions from the onslaught of the modern world, embodied by the “Visaya”, their cousins from a neighbouring island who are now settled in the...

"Blind, deaf and dumb", this is how Sarah describes the plight of Afghan women. Like most other women in her village, Sarah suffers from TB. Step by step, we will follow the journey of these women, with their fears and joys, from their forsaken...

"Romances de terre et d’eau" is a documentary about the small farmers in the Nordeste in Brazil who fight very nobly and with great humour for economic survival but also to preserve their culture’s strength of imagination and recreation. For...