Nature & environment
LONGYEARBYEN, a bipolar city
A climate dilemma in the Arctic circle ! Located in the Svalbard archipelago, Longyearbyen is the northernmost city in the world. Here we extract coal for one hundred years as an energetic and economic source, which stirs many environmental paradoxes. In 2015, the mayor election year, the coal price...
QUARTZ The roving tale of a sand speck
A sand speck odyssey. Beached on an Atlantic shore, blown by the north wind on the grey and white dunes, reaching the outskirts of a forest, it runs through a multitude of ecosystems. Each of them is a universe filled with species incredibly and often spectacularly adapted to both the absence of wat...
The last council
The Last Council tells the story of 13 old ladies, native grandmothers and charismatic ambassadors of oral civilisations: living libraries, keepers of long forgotten traditions, each of these grandmothers is the image of a culture. They come from Central Africa, Nepal, Tibet, North and South Americ...
Citizens’ Currency
Creating money isn’t a privilege purely reserved to state banks.
Since 2010, local currencies have been launched all over France. Issued by the citizens themselves, their role is to restore, on their territory, the humanity and meaning that conventional money no longer has in their eyes, while re-es...
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...
INTO THE FRENCH WILD
This series invites us to immerse ourselves in the French countryside in the company of a passionate naturalist, ornithologist and biodiversity specialist, Rémi Dupouy. A treasure hunt in search of amazing species, magnificent landscapes and an animal and plant heritage in need of preservation.
At o...
MISTIGRI AND THE URBAN WILDLIFE
The aim of this animal documentary with a dramatic narrative is to show us the wild animals living in our cities and the reasons for their presence in these urban environments through the eyes of a humanised cat.
Misty is a middle-class alley cat. From season to season, he roams the city in search ...
THE OCEAN OGRE OR THE EROSION OF THE ATLANTIC COAST
Driven by stronger and more frequent storms, the Atlantic coast is inexorably retreating while the Aquitaine coastline loses ground each year. Between global warming and occasionally invasive urbanization, man has no choice but to reinvent his relationship to the ocean. Those who have chosen to live...
INSPIRE YOUR LIFE
Social entrepreneurs are the heroes of today. At a time when the future of mankind is in danger, their selfless commitment to other people and the planet is providing inspiration for a growing number of young people in search of meaningful and exhilarating activities. The title of this new collectio...
NUCLEAR INDUSTRY, THE HUMAN BOMB
The Fukushima disaster has reopened the debate on the dangers of nuclear energy and the transparency of those exploiting a highly politicised industry. In response to the European Commission’s demands, France has agreed to carry out "Stress Tests" to assess the safety of all its power plants. Within...