Society
Shamans, the Masters of Disorder
For millennia, men and women have served as healers, sages, sorcerers, and seers throughout the world.
Shamanism is one of the most ancient medicines, as well as one of the first methods that humans developed to contact the Sacred!
Is it possible to heal without the help of modern medicine? To r...
The City of God: the redemption of a favela
The Cidade de Deus, or City of God, has never had anything biblical about it apart from its name. The history of this favela in Rio de Janero has been marked by violence, poverty and drugs trafficking. In 2002, the eponymous film made it the best known favela in the world. But over the last 4 years,...
The Judge’s Children
Catherine de la Hougue is an atypical rural judge with a particular interest in prevention. The juvenile court in Coutances, Normandy, opens its doors to us as we focus on three cases in which children are either at risk or charged of misdemeanours. What will the judge decide? What will become of th...
VERTIGO
Vertiges is the story of a young man who refuses to be knocked off course, whatever obstacles are placed in his way. Christophe is 25 years old and should be dead. He suffers from a rare genetic disease, Fanconi’s anaemia, which dramatically reduces the life expectancy of its victims. But Christophe...
We told ourselves… 30 years ago
Six friends, aged between 14 and 16, who we meet for the first time in this previously unseen film from 1981 as they raise hell in their run down housing estate in Saint-Laurent du Var in the Alpes Maritimes. Their lives are hard, but their heads are full of dreams.
Where are they 30 years later? H...
(Johnny) The Blue-collar Singer
In a campsite by the sea, in a village hall, in the local shopping mall, the crowds flock to see Johnny Rock, the double of Johnny Hallyday.
Because he’s like them, because he understands them, because he’s accessible, because he is, quite simply, a worker like them, Denis Le Men, alias Johnny Ro...
Battered children, the law should have saved them
Eight-year-old Marina died last year, battered to death by her father and mother.
Before her, seven-year-old Dylan and two-year old Enzo silently endured years of unimaginable abuse at the hands of their parents and families.
What’s going on in France? Why are we unable to protect our children? Why ...
BE A SUPERHERO… FOR REAL !
In the US some people have decided to rise to the preposterous challenge of achieving fulfilment by becoming a new kind of real superhero, taking action which while not saving the world, helps to improve their immediate environment. Rallying together in groups and associations, some of which have re...
FOR BETTER… FOR WORSE!
“For better…for worse!” provides us with an X-ray, in the form of an appraisal, of French society and its attitude towards gay marriage and same-sex parenting. A subject that, during this presidential election year, continues to spark lively public debate!
“For better…for worse!” stems from the 16 ...
The First Time
Losing or giving your virginity - like the glass that’s half full or half empty, it’s all in the point of view.
While specialists agree that your first sexual experience is impossible to forget, whether it went “well” or “badly”, sex seems to have become commonplace in our society.
But maybe not as ...