SPECIAL FILM SCREENING ‘La Ferme des Bertrand’ (The Bertrand’s Farm), in the presence of film director Gilles Perret

This screening is organised as part of the interdisciplinary workshop ‘The Worlds of Work: Crossed Perspectives from France and England’

This event is free and open to everyone, but online booking is required.
To access the screening, please register here.

The film screening will be followed by a discussion with film director Gilles Perret, and MFO Director Pascal Marty.

Film in French with English subtitles

Haute-Savoie (French Alps), 1972. On a dairy farm run by three brothers and home to one hundred animals, everyday life is quietly captured on film for the very first time. Their neighbour, filmmaker Gilles Perret, would go on to dedicate his first documentary to them in 1997, just as the brothers were passing the farm on to the next generation—Patrick and his wife Hélène.

Now, 25 years later, Perret picks up his camera once more to follow Hélène as she prepares to hand over the reins again. In this deeply human story of continuity and change, 0 Years in the Life of a Farm traces the rhythms of rural life across decades, offering a moving portrait of those who live by and for the land.

Told through the gestures, words, and legacy of those who have cared for the farm over generations, the film is at once intimate and universal—a reflection on labour, heritage, and the powerful act of transmission at the heart of the French farming world.