Society
NOW THAT I’M FREE
Get out of jail and be free at last !
A relief yes, but most of all a distress.
Around Nantes, in order to prepare their reinsertion, prisoners near the end of their sentence are welcome by families during their out of jail permissions. Families like others, who took the decision to open their do...
The World and Us – 15 year-olds
Who are they and what are their dreams ? From privileged backgrounds or apprentices, student fishermen and farmers, these 15-year-olds invite us to share their daily lives, their joys and their sorrows. Parents, love, sexuality, studies, work, politics… Teenagers full of life, astonishingly mature a...
Violent Children: School on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Today, 5.9% of children under 15 years of age have behavioural problems.
But this juvenile violence is not spontaneous. It seems evident that the children concerned are all exposed to an extreme level of violence either at home or in the outside world.
Many of them come from broken homes.
Behind the...
Movimento
This portrait of Frère Betto, a leading figure in the social struggle in Brazil, takes us back to the roots of the country’s social movements, examining their political and social context at each stage of their development, from the first hours of the dictatorship in 1964 to the current day.
Frère...
New York, Saint Vincent de Paul… A business of scruples
The French-speaking Church in New York is threatened with closure.
The Bishop of New York is contemplating the closure of fifteen Catholic churches in the city. Amongst them is the French church of Saint-Vincent de Paul, founded by the Pères de la Miséricorde in 1841, the only French-speaking churc...
Success School
The exemplary story of a group of young people from disadvantaged areas and schools qualified as ZEPS (areas targeted for special help in education) as they join a class in a prestigious college to prepare them for the entrance to the Grandes Ecoles de commerce (the competitive-entrance, higher educ...
Gaza Souvenirs
“The easiest way of making the town’s acquaintance is to know how the people in it work, how they love, and how they die.” Albert Camus.
The film is a succession of phone calls between a young Palestinian, Wissam, and a young French filmmaker, Sam. Together, they bring back memories of a phantasmag...
Tatau : The rebirth of the tattoo
The practice of the ancestral art of tattooing had virtually disappeared in the French Polynesia following the prohibition of all forms of pagan culture and beliefs by the missionaries. For the past 20 years or so tattoos are enjoying a comeback thanks to the efforts by Tavana Salmon who is determin...
