History and society History
Lettres ouvertes
2023
Between 1931 and 2002, Switzerland issued six million seasonal residence permits to migrant workers, a status that prohibited them from entering Swiss territory with their families. In a series of open letters, former beneficiaries and their children, talk about the impact that status had on their family lives.
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Between 1931 and 2002, Switzerland issued six million seasonal residence permits to migrant workers, a status that prohibited them from entering Swiss territory with their families. In a series of open letters, former beneficiaries and their children, talk about the impact that status had on their family lives.
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La Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS) est une entreprise audiovisuelle de service public, appartenant au groupe média SSR (Société Suisse de radiodiffusion et télévision), qui propose des programmes sur quatre chaînes radio, deux chaînes tv et de nombreuses plateformes digitales.
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From Detroit to Manchester and on to Boston, innumerable American towns, streets and rivers carry francophone names. Why? The rapper Biz and globe-trotter Jean-Michel Dufaux set off in the footsteps of those who travelled and dreamed of America in times gone by. The story of a history forgotten or erased.
December 1944. They thought that the war was over because Belgium had been freed three months earlier. But the families in Ardennes saw the Germans return by surprise. We look back at a terrible battle, through accounts, sequences from the archives and interviews with historians.
Wherever man is found, members of the crow family are nearby, watching. Since time immemorial, they have followed the hunters, farmers, soldiers and persecutors, scratching the soil in gardens, ploughed fields, battlefields... Crows and their cousins study us, passing on the knowledge gleaned to their offspring. Chronicle of an inquisition.
The Indian Taïno people, who are almost extinct, leave a culture full of legends, sculptures and beliefs, but also a way of living, in harmony with nature, and values of sharing and solidarity. So many aspirations that appeal to certain contemporary young people. Story of a rediscovery.
"I come from a people, the Fang, where the dead never leave the living. But since we have become Christians, we are no longer able to hear them." Lost between the here-and-now and the beyond, Natyvel Pontalier's spiritual quest in Gabon takes her back to her family's roots.
"Whether I wanted it or not Vietnam has forever accompanied me, every step along my path through life". Narrated in the first person, Mei-Chen Chalais recounts the story of a childhood steeped in war, her mother's courage, the flight to Hanoi, Saigon and then to France...
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Why did the cinema remain morally backward for so long? Despite its pioneers' insistence on modernity, why did this new art form find itself imprisoned in the moralism of the French Belle Époque and America's narrow-minded Puritanism? From total exclusion to a precarious tolerance, the story of an uncertain war.
