France

René Vautier (1928-2015) is the most censored filmmaker in the history of French cinema.
A rebel and activist, he always strove to make "images and sound available to those denied them by the powers that be". And it was not without risk that he fought with his citizen's camera to bear witness to the struggles of his time, and always tried to establish a dialogue in images to act on conflicts.
Afrique 50, the first French anti-colonial film, inaugurated Vautier's struggle. Camera in hand, he definitively chose his side: to be on the other side, to face up to it. It was finally with a fiction film that he won international recognition at the Cannes Film Festival in 1972 for Avoir 20 ans dans les Aurès. A crucial witness to his times, René Vautier was always one step ahead of history. A few years after the Evian Accords, André Malraux said: "René Vautier is a Frenchman who saw things before anyone else".
Even today, his films echo current events, becoming extraordinarily diverse archives (documentary, fiction, short and feature-length) that shed light on contemporary history and put today's crises into perspective by studying the struggles of the past.
René Vautier was censored for virtually all his work.

 

 

René Vautier

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René Vautier.

1988, France. vo French. 51’

Afrique 50
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Afrique 50

René Vautier.

1950, France, Ivory Coast. vo French. 25’

Algérie en flammes
 
Algérie en flammes

René Vautier.

1958, Algeria. vo French. 22’

Avoir vingt ans dans les Aurès
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Avoir vingt ans dans les Aurès

René Vautier.

1972, Algeria, France. vo French. 90’

Déjà le sang de mai ensemençait novembre
 
Déjà le sang de mai ensemençait novembre

René Vautier.

1985, Algeria, France. vo French. 61’

Entretien avec Pierre Clément
 
Entretien avec Pierre Clément

René Vautier.

1998, France. vo French. 18’

Frontline
 
Frontline

Paul Bernetel, René Vautier.

1976, France. vo French. 74’

Guerre aux images en Algérie
 
Guerre aux images en Algérie

René Vautier.

1985, France. vo French. 73’

La caravelle
 
La caravelle

René Vautier.

1970, France. vo French. 4’

Le Glas
 
Le Glas

René Vautier.

1969, France. vo French. 5’

Le remords
 
Le remords

René Vautier.

1975, France. vo French. 12’

Les ajoncs
 
Les ajoncs

René Vautier.

1969, France. vo French. 13’

Les anneaux d’or
 
Les anneaux d’or

René Vautier.

1956, France. vo Arabic. 18’

Les trois cousins
 
Les trois cousins

René Vautier.

1969, France. vo French. 10’

Peuple en marche
 
Peuple en marche

René Vautier.

1963, France. vo French. 50’

René Vautier, l’indomptable
 
René Vautier, l’indomptable

Jacques Royer, René Vautier.

1996, France. vo French. 23’

René Vautier: Comentarios sobre sus películas
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René Vautier: Comentarios sobre sus películas

Arxius OVNI, René Vautier.

2006, Spain, France. vo French. 60’

Techniquement si simple
 
Techniquement si simple

René Vautier.

1971, France. vo French. 10’