11 July 2023
[documentary] Quai des brunes, women dockworkers on Reunion Island
Discover the film directed by Claire Perdrix with the support of AIVP. Réunion's seaport, France's fourth largest, is the island's economic lung, a world of fantasy and steel, a symbol of union struggles and manly codes.
Today, around twenty women work there, dockers "at the foot of the boat" like their male colleagues.
Until now, no other French port had dared to have a mixed workforce on the docks, and this small revolution has taken place in one of the departments where professional equality is struggling to emerge.
By looking at the lives of these women workers, this film examines the place of 21st century women in Reunionese society and, more generally, the impact of their presence in a bastion hitherto reserved for men.
