To Count On One's Own Strength

France | 1972 | 52 min | Documentary An overview of the Arab immigrants’ struggles in France and the political mobilisations of the far left in 1972: occupation of empty houses, struggles against racism in daily life and in the factory (such as in response of the murders of Djellali Ben Ali and Gacem Ali), struggles against the production rates and against dismissals particularly in the factory of Renault in Paris where Pierre Overney was a member of the Struggle Committee. His assassination mobilised thousands of people in the largest Parisian demonstrations since May 68, perhaps marking the peak of the leftist movement of the 70s. A film by the Atelier pour un Cinéma de Lutte and Yannis Tritsibidas Yannis Tritsibidas is a film and television director and producer born in Athens. He studied law in Athens and then film in Paris (École Pratique des Hautes Études, the documentary center directed by Jean Rouch, and Paris VIII University). He worked in television as an assistant and in radio, notably for France Culture’s Atelier de création radiophonique, where he collaborated primarily with Mimica Cranaki (1972–1992). Yannis Tritsibidas taught in the Department of Film and Audiovisual Studies at the University of Paris 8 (between 1971 and 1980 and from 1991 to 1993). He is also a translator of Ancient Greek and the founder of the Cycladic Audiovisual Archives.