Sport
Sportswomen in Mayotte
We follow the careers of several generations of Mahorish sportswomen, facing not only the occasionally malevolent gaze of their social environment, but also the lack of infrastructures and means. Whatever the obstacles, Dhoimrati, Nasra, Simane, Moinahouri, Saanda... are determined to live their pas...
Yvan Bourgnon, offshore racer: IN BALANCE ON THE OCEAN
In 2015, the Swiss skipper Yvan Bourgnon - a regular offshore racer and winner of the Transat Jacques Vabre in 1997 alongside his brother Laurent - completed the first around the world solo voyage in a cabin-less catamaran the size of a beach yacht, "Ma Louloutte". 220 days and 55,000 km at sea, wi...
HORIZONTAL SNOW
Adventures and explorations in Himalaya and Canadian Great North. A documentary series drove by Jean Troillet, the Swiss mountain guide and veteran climber who made the achievement to climb 10 peaks over 8000 metres without oxygen.
GREENLAND, WHY NOT ! – 26’ (2016)
The team leave Tasiilaq for a new...
Adaptive Champions
Top-level sportsmen Sebastian, Rodriguez, Richard, Lionel and Pascal are different from other athletes: they suffer from mental disabilities, some obvious, others not. They all have one thing in common: they are proud to wear the colours of the French team and to play adaptive sports, reserved for t...
BEYOND THE LIMITS: THE DANGERS OF EXTREME SPORTS
Overcoming their fears, facing the incomprehension of their friends and families, dicing with death and doing everything to avoid it: professional extreme sports athletes take no chances when facing danger and continue to push the limits in order to pursue their passions.
In this documentary, we lea...
Foot & Fist
In the 13th district of Paris, the coach Philippe Magnol, founder of Club Cenvint, struggles against institutions and the lack of means to promote Kickboxing and train champions. His most feared fighters are two twin brothers, Michael and Cedrick Peynaud, who he has coached since they were 6 years o...
IN SLOW MO
In this artistic and instructive sequence, a champion in his or her category (rollerblading, skateboarding, surfing, motocross, kite surfing, BMX, longboard...) is filmed performing one of his favourite manoeuvres with high-speed cameras and analyses various stages of his performance.
- Maxime Char...
The Legion: A Very Special Mission to the Heart of a Green Hell
In the heart of the Amazon rainforest, trees conceal the longest French border, running between Guyana and Brazil.
A border as impossible to spot from the sky as it is from the ground. Here, there is no river or barbed wire to represent it physically, just 7 concrete boundary markers, planted in the...
The record-breaker of Himalaya
In 2016, Jean Troillet celebrated 50 years of mountaineering and the 30th anniversary of his ascent of the north face of Everest with his friend Erhard Loretan. Their speed record, a round trip of less than 43 hours, has never been equalled.
Guide, adventurer and Himalayan specialist, Jean Troillet...
