
Signs Of Anger
Farmers along the France-Switzerland border block roads and stage demonstrations, and this film follows their protests as anger over agricultural policy boils over into direct action. Growers and livestock producers from both countries describe the regulations they say make daily work impossible: paperwork, environmental rules, and price pressures that squeeze margins while imports undercut them. Farmers speak directly to camera about feeling unheard by politicians in Paris and Bern, and the footage shows tractors massed on highways, burning hay bales, and improvised barricades that stop traffic for hours. Officials and local residents caught in the disruption offer their own reactions, giving the film more than one side of the roadblocks even as it stays close to the farmers' grievances. The protests are framed as a cross-border alliance, unusual in itself, between two agricultural sectors that don't normally coordinate. What emerges is less a single dramatic confrontation than a portrait of accumulated frustration finally spilling onto the road.