Health & Care
Employing People with Disabilities
Often excluded from school, young adults with disabilities struggle to find their place in the workforce. Only 0.5% of people with intellectual or cognitive disabilities are employed in mainstream work environments.
Yet some are determined to challenge preconceived notions and fight for inclusion...
Autistic Children: Parents in Distress
In recent months, parents of autistic children have been raising urgent alarms. Some even put themselves in danger to make their voices heard. For instance, in September, a mother of twin autistic children climbed a crane in Lille. Just last week, a mother in Seine-Maritime went on a hunger strike t...
Superhero Hands
For children like Mathias, who is missing a hand or an arm, medical solutions aren’t miraculous. There are prostheses, but they are mostly aesthetic, non-articulated, and, as Mathias’ mother Agnès admits, “visually, they’re really not great—actually, they can be quite scary…” These cost between €2,0...
THIS STRENGTH WITHIN THEM
Thirteen years ago, the director filmed the troubled childhoods of teenagers who had been removed from their families by Child Protective Services and placed in a residential home in the Vosges region.
Today, she meets these young people again, now adults.
How have they built their lives after s...
UNCLASSIFIABLE
Unclassifiable gives a voice to the often-forgotten athletes of the Paralympic Games: athletes with Down syndrome. While they frequently take the podium at international competitions for athletes with intellectual disabilities, Cléo, Marie, Jason, Jean, and many other "T21" athletes are excluded fro...
A DOCTOR LIKE NO OTHER
In Roubaix, Dr Lamarre still practises family medicine, the old-fashioned way. He is one of the last GPs who takes the time to get to know each of his patients, and to follow them throughout their lives. With a resolutely human view of medicine and the Hippocratic oath, he chose to practise here - o...
BULLYING AT SCHOOL: OUR LIVES AFTERWARDS
What if we were to change our point of view? This documentary highlights the suffering experienced by adults who, as children, were bullied at school.
Ten, twenty or thirty years later, the trauma is still very real. By following the lives of Nathalie, Laurine and Samuel, this film exposes the lo...
Les Bas Buissons, Memories of a Former Sanatorium
In the heart of the Muette woods in Dreux, restoration work is underway across several kilometers of ruins. The Bas Buissons site—once home to one of the largest sanatoriums in France—is now at the center of a major real estate redevelopment project.
Built in 1928 and abandoned since the 1990s, t...
Thank you for the Grace
Jean-Pierre is my friend. A rock guitarist and singer, a punk writer, he spent 40 years of his life in drugs, unable to create any artistic work without destroying himself.
I lost track of him around 2010. Today I’ve found him again — completely sober.
How was that possible?
Jean-Pierre speaks of...
