La Ferme des Bertrand (The Bertrand’s Farm): dir Gilles Perret (2023)

Reflective, slightly elegiac documentary on rural French farming life via three visits over 50 years to a family farm in Haute-Savoie. In 1972, the Bertrand dairy farm — run by three brothers and home to a hundred animals — is filmed for the first time. Director (and neighbour) Gilles Perret returned in 1997, when the farm is being passed on to nephew Patrick and his wife Hélène. Twenty‑five years later, he picks up the camera again as Hélène prepares to hand over the reins. Through the voices and gestures of those who shaped the farm across generations, the film traces intimate life paths shaped by work, continuity, and change …

In French with English subtitles. Screens as part of the series Family Reel: Celebrating the Year of the Family.