Mémoire de nos mères

Through the stories of today's women, this film tells how their mothers and grandmothers, forgotten during the Great War of 14/18, lifted the country up, took part in its reconstruction and, above all, paved the way for universal suffrage and their right to work and education as equals. In just a few months, the country's economic and social situation improved. The Roaring Twenties began. A new generation of women won more freedom. Well over a hundred years on, "Mémoire de nos mères" resonates as a struggle to be continued.

Keywords

  • Cine-Short: 90 Minutes of cinema
  • Only on Sooner
  • Portraits of empowered women
  • Women's Rights
  • war

Director

  • Tristan Bourlard

Documentary

1h 1min

-10

FR

FR

Belgium
2022
Through the stories of today's women, this film tells how their mothers and grandmothers, forgotten during the Great War of 14/18, lifted the country up, took part in its reconstruction and, above all, paved the way for universal suffrage and their right to work and education as equals. In just a few months, the country's economic and social situation improved. The Roaring Twenties began. A new generation of women won more freedom. Well over a hundred years on, "Mémoire de nos mères" resonates as a struggle to be continued.

Through the stories of today's women, this film tells how their mothers and grandmothers, forgotten during the Great War of 14/18, lifted the country up, took part in its reconstruction and, above all, paved the way for universal suffrage and their right to work and education as equals. In just a few months, the country's economic and social situation improved. The Roaring Twenties began. A new generation of women won more freedom. Well over a hundred years on, "Mémoire de nos mères" resonates as a struggle to be continued.


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