Documentaries
France is Ours!
Every year, thousands of people move to France from abroad. Last year, more than 236,000 people settled there... whether for professional reasons or to make their dream come true! Over the course of a year, we follow the progress of families, couples and foreign students who have chosen to leave eve...
FRENCH GUYANA, ON THE TRAIL OF THE ILLEGAL GOLD MINERS
In French Guyana in June 2019, François-Michel le Tourneau, geographer and senior research fellow at the CNRS, launched the Camopi-Regina expedition, composed of a botanist, an Amerindian guide and eight legionnaires from the 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment (REI) in Kourou.
The objective: to contin...
GHOSTS OF AN EMPIRE
This documentary explores the colonial imagination of Portuguese cinema since the beginning of the 20th century.100 years of cinema. As a contrast to the productions that related imperial domination, films and gazes of different generation of Portuguese filmmakers, as well as their testimonies, unma...
GIRL CULTURE
They are 13 years old. They enter the 8th grade, and will go through a year filled with « first times »: boys, hormones, the changing body. Who are these young girls from high school? What do they do, what do they talk about, what do they dream about? Girl culture is the chronicle of these teenagers...
ISTRES 125: XXL air base
Go behind the scenes of France's most iconic, secure and largest air base.
For more than a century, the 125 d´Istres air base has stood the test of time and conflict to become a major centre of French defence: 2,500 hectares, 40 kilometres of fences, within which 5,000 soldiers are organised into...
MEDICS
Illness is not the worst problem of a doctor. It’s also often the patient. When a practicioner asks us questions about what we smoke, eat, and drink, do we always tell the truth? We spent months with the practicioners and the patients of a big hospital. We have also followed the patients to see how ...
More Than Bread Alone
More than just a staple food, bread, in the Bible, is the symbol of relational and spiritual nourishment, because man does not live on bread alone. For Jean-Paul Veziano, who comes from a long line of bakers, it is also an instrument of sharing that brings people together across borders and denomin...
Oxford Trobadors
Denis Noble, an emeritus professor in physiology, has spent his whole life studying heart beat while his own beat at the rhythm of “Se santa”, the Occitan anthem. Founder of a 5 musicians group (he’s a singer himself), he is rehearsing before a concert with his friends. Forty years ago, Denis, a dan...
Ploughing Their Own Furrow
Gone are the days when they were just farmers’ daughters or wives! Today they have their own farms and create their own dreams...
Valentine, Ophélie, and Charlène are all under 25, but they are already running their own farms, managing their own herds of cows or sheep and cultivating hundreds of ...