Nature & environment
WELL BRED ANIMALS
This documentary presents the fauna and flora of an unusual and endangered environment: the wooded countryside, or “bocage”, characteristic of Northern France.
Shaped by extensive livestock farming, this terrain is incredibly rich: plants, insects, birds and mammals benefit from the numerous hedg...
CHRISTIANS FACING THE ECOLOGICAL EMERGENCY
A fascinating and highly topical reflection on responsibilities of Man, and in particular of Christians, in the face of the destruction of the living world.
According to Genesis, Adam and Eve were called by God to “rule" over creation. But what does “ruling over creation" mean in the original pla...
DEEP BREATHING
The French freediver Stéphane Tourreau is vice world champion in constant weight apnea, a demanding discipline that consists of diving as deep as possible using only his own muscle strength. His passion: to explore the most beautiful diving spots on the planet.
Always looking for unique and intro...
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...
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 ...
Vavilov Institute: The world granary
Everywhere around the world vegetal species, once cultivated, have disappeared.
In saint petersbourg the Nikolai Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry preserves, cultivates, and studies more than 350 000 plants.
For 120 years that unique granary has prevented famines all around the globe. This film ...
Bali, building harmony
This documentary focuses on the relationship between the Balinese and their habitat. This is traditionally the foundation of the balance of life on earth. At a time when Bali is nibbling on land by real estate developers and proclaims itself as the number one tourist destination on Trip Advisor, is ...
Soulac-sur-Mer, kiss your coast goodbye
In Soulac-sur-Mer, Gironde, the Le Signal apartment building, built in 1967, was evacuated on January 29th, 2014, as a matter of urgency, because it was in danger of tipping over into the ocean.
The story of this building is also the story of what is happening - or will happen - to more than half o...
SOLUTIONS FOR A BETTER WORLD (Shamengo)
This collection is dedicated to the world’s most innovative and outstanding social, societal and green entrepreneurs : They create with a conscience, care for mind and body, preserve the environment and take action to help others ! These ordinary people, met on the 5 continents, relate their extraor...
Cap-Ferret: a corner of paradise
Cap-Ferret: a piece of land at the end of the world, a peninsula 25 km long, only accessible by one road.
And in the middle, "Chez Hortense": an eternal, un-missable, timeless restaurant.
From the hustle and bustle of summer to the deserted, savage winter, a poetic human journey that takes a fresh l...