Parenting
SKINNED ALIVE
Bursts of laughter, people speaking in Pashtun, English, Arabic, French and Bambara… Running, shouting, playing, kissing… Forty kilometres from Chartres, in the Château des Vaux, the Apprentis d’Auteuil foundation opens its doors to us for the very first time. This documentary follows the journeys o...
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...
Chronicle of an adoption
This is the intimate and heartbreaking story of two couples trying to adopt a child. For 4 years we followed Céline and Cédric, Philippe and François on their long road to adoption.
A film that reflects upon the many ways in which we become parents, and questions society on its prejudices and ambiv...
These Children Who Do Not Speak
Being the one who doesn’t speak at school. Trying to say a word. Failing. Being alone. Powerless.
In France, it’s estimated that over 60,000 children suffer from selective mutism—an anxiety disorder marked by an inability to speak to certain people or in specific, stressful situations.
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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...
Parents for life
Their son is a criminal and they will bear this cross forever. They are the parents of Matthieu, who in 2011, at a boarding school in Chambon sur Lignon, killed his friend, Agnès, who was 13 years old. To date in France, Matthieu is the only person to have been sentenced to life imprisonment for a c...
ADOPTION: THE DAY I MET MY CHILD
The arrival of a child is a mini revolution: it turns a household upside down. Valérie, Thierry, Steve and Richere have always dreamed of being parents. For them, adoption is the only way to make the dream a reality. Whether on their own or in a couple, achieving their goal has involved endless red ...
For the Children of Cambodia
This is the story of a love affair between a French couple, Sandra and Gilles, and a country, Cambodia. The pair gave up everything to devote their lives to helping Cambodian children. In this country, in which 30% of the population lives beneath the poverty line, children are the first to suffer, f...
Orphaned children: a right to be loved
The orphanages are full of abandoned children who dream of finding a father and mother. In the Ukraine, Maxim, Valentyn and Sacha’s lives were changed thanks to 42-year-old Agnès and Laurent, who, despite the boys’ medical conditions, had no hesitation in adopting them. Parenthood has meant a whole ...
