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Te Parataito no Malik
The death of Malik Joyeux four years ago turned him into a legend in Tahiti and throughout the surfing world, his adopted universe. For those in the know, his name is synonymous with a mythical place: Teahupoo, the wave that sublimated and transcended him, which gave him many magical moments and wit...
The Alpine Ibex
Whether it’s game or a protected species, the Alpine ibex is above all symbolic of a division between two concepts, one defended by hunters and the other by environmentalists.
Naturally placid, due to excessive hunting the Alpine ibex almost became extinct in France in the 1960s and was made a "ful...
The animals are movie stars too !
Animals in movies seem to act naturally just like comedians. But this is the contrary. To make animals act is unnatural and the way to obtain it is sometimes close to magic practiced by some specialized animal trainers. Pierre Cadéac is one of the most popular in the trainers' closed world. He opens...
the eye of the guarana
Today, energy drinks, such as Dark Dog and Red Bull have become a worldwide phenomenon. The food processing multinationals are investing heavily in selling these new drinks to a whole new generation, advertising them as miracle products because of the energy boost they provide.
The main ingredient i...
The World and Us – 15 year-olds
Who are they and what are their dreams ? From privileged backgrounds or apprentices, student fishermen and farmers, these 15-year-olds invite us to share their daily lives, their joys and their sorrows. Parents, love, sexuality, studies, work, politics… Teenagers full of life, astonishingly mature a...
TRANSRUSSIA
Igor is journalist in Vladivostok. One day he decides to do what no other Russian would ever think of doing and cross the country from Moscow to Vladivostok at the wheel of an old Lada Gigulli.
Not only is this 12,000 km, eight-week odyssey an extraordinary adventure, but a chance for Igor to see w...
Violent Children: School on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Today, 5.9% of children under 15 years of age have behavioural problems.
But this juvenile violence is not spontaneous. It seems evident that the children concerned are all exposed to an extreme level of violence either at home or in the outside world.
Many of them come from broken homes.
Behind the...
Dust and illusions, a short history of Burning Man
For the last twenty years a totally unique event has taken place in Nevada, in the middle of the vast Black Rock desert, on the site of an ancient dried up lake surrounded by arid mountains: Burning Man. In 2008, it attracted 40,000 visitors. Many were there for the first time, but most of them had ...
BROAD PEAK
Broad Peak redraws the adventure of 6 mountain dwellers, followers of base jump, the most extreme discipline of the parachuting, who, during 8 weeks, went to Earth of Baffin in the Arctic Circle. Their objective : jump the famous big walls, the world’s highest cliffs which emerge from icefield.
Thi...
Movimento
This portrait of Frère Betto, a leading figure in the social struggle in Brazil, takes us back to the roots of the country’s social movements, examining their political and social context at each stage of their development, from the first hours of the dictatorship in 1964 to the current day.
Frère...