Health & Care
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...
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...
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...
A GOOD SCHOOL
Every year, 1 in 10 children is affected by school bullying. Not to mention the "gray zone," which includes thousands of young witnesses to this repeated violence, who are either complicit or indifferent. Bullying poisons the school environment and can sometimes lead to tragedy. It leaves lasting sc...
A LIFE APART
This documentary series is an extraordinary social and human experiment that measures the benefits of intergenerational bonds.
For 6 weeks, a group of kindergarten children visited 10 nonagenarians in their retirement home every day to share various activities with them, under the supervision of a ...
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...
