Documentary film “Tastes of Struggle”

Preview screening of the documentary “Des Goûts de Lutte” on April 30, 2024, at 6:30 p.m. at Cinéma le Diagonal – Rue de Verdun, Montpellier.

The screening will be followed by a discussion with the filmmakers, moderated by Cécile Hautefeuille, a journalist at Médiapart. In partnership with the LDH, Politis, Les Amis du Monde Diplo, and La Cavale bookstore.

SYNOPSIS:

The story begins after the fight.

What kind of impact does a revolt have on those who lived through it?

The impact of an event can be heard through a progressive score played out over time. By tracing the intersecting paths of the Yellow Vests over several years following the movement, the film explores how their relationship to the world, politics, violence, otherness, and social boundaries has evolved.

Struggle also carves out deeper paths within us—paths that can be both unsettling and liberating—and these paths reveal themselves in our relationships at work, with our families, in our speech, and with ourselves.

In turn, a historian and a sociologist draw parallels between these traces and those of other movements that have shaped history, such as the Paris Commune or the Spanish Indignados.

Through both personal and collective journeys, the film explores the extent to which social struggles can transform us and empower us.