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Post Mortem and other small hassles
Family company 'Vita', implanted in the suburbs of Lyon, is specialized in cleaning up places where were found dead bodies, filthy apartments and other pests. Christophe Mercier, head manager, decided a few years ago to develop a specific human remains cleaning protocol. His team faces sickening mel...
SURF EXPLORE IN MADAGASCAR
Erwan Simon, Emiliano Cataldi, Sam Bleakley and John Callahan are four professionals from the surf industry and form the collective Surf Explore.
But they are also and above all adventurers. Each year, they travel to the ends of the earth in search of pristine waves and undiscovered surfing spots.
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TAKANAKUY, HAND-TO-HAND AGAINST THE WORLD
In a remote region of Peru, every December 25th, men, women and children fight to maintain their tradition.
In these isolated mountains in the heart of the Peruvian Andes, among the illuminated Christmas trees, cribs and figurines, a five hundred year old tradition is perpetuated to settle conflicts...
Tenir le Temps
With 16 superb stage performers and a choreography that echoes his last piece, created for the Lyon Opera Ballet, in this creation Rachid Ouramdane confronts his dancers with a mechanism that pushes them beyond their limits. We are caught up in a crazy spiral, overwhelmed by a crowd, excited by a tr...
THE DEVIL’S CHILD
December 1989. The Ceausescu regime collapses. The world discovers the horrible extent of this dictatorship, especially images showing hundreds of thousands of children confined and abused in orphanages. Marion is one of these orphans, a devil’s child, as she calls herself. A French couple adopted h...
The night of the Kings: Royal festivities in the time of Louis XIII
Jordi Savall takes over the three prestigious rooms of the castle, to honor the three Kings who created the architecture of Versailles.
Louis XIII, who chose the site and built the first castle, was a musician and a good dancer in the Court Ballets. He favored the development of royal m...
The night of the Kings: Royal festivities in the time of Louis XIV
Jordi Savall takes over the three prestigious rooms of the castle, to honor the three Kings who created the architecture of Versailles.
Louis XIV established the Comedy-Ballet then the lyric tragedy and the academies. He gave an unequaled scope to sacred music and brought theater to the hear...
The Vaujours Kamikazes, Nuclear Sorcerer’s Apprentices
Opened in 1955 on the initiative of General de Gaulle, the Centre d’Etudes Atomiques de Vaujours (Vaujours Atomic Studies Centre) actively contributed to the creation of the French atomic bomb. In 1997, Jacques Chirac closed this site, located just 15 kilometers from Paris.
Now abandoned, the sit...
The wings of the Loire river
This is one of the most sensational duck hunts, taking place on one of the finest and noblest rivers of France and an exceptional World Heritage site, the Loire. Portraits of the hunters allow us to discover this wild river between Orleans and Tours. We accompany them as they hunt waterfowl, through...
Thierry Duvaldestin, itinerary of a self-made man
With a score of Group 1 wins to his name, including two Prix d’Amérique, and a reputation as a meticulous and highly successful trainer, Thierry Duvaldestin’s public image is well known. Our goal is to reveal the private man behind the professional.
Those who call him dour, taciturn and focused sole...
