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Le Havre, a small three-storey house. The director's grandparents have lived here for the past 50 years. Today, Grandpa is losing his mind a little. Their six children want to take things in hand and arrange for the old couple to go into a retirement home. Unexpectedly, Grandfather puts up a sho...

The Bozos in Mali have been renowned for many generations for their skills in the art of fishing. They know the waters of the Niger River better than anyone else, and they are on good terms with the water spirits. In recent years, however, their lives have become increasingly difficult, as fish stoc...

“My father always told me: 'Of the three sons, the one who works the land will take over the farm.' I liked this place and hoped to live here one day. But I never wanted the land, my desire to become a filmmaker was stronger. My second brother, Régis, is getting ready to take over the farming. Filmi...

Ghorban reached France alone in 2010 when he was 12 years old. He had travelled over 12,000 km from Afghanistan, experiencing the terror and dangers of clandestine migration. He was taken into the care of the child welfare services, and his social workers addressed him to a psychologist. He had to t...

A few kilometers south of Tangier, near the port town of Asilah, lies the wide golden beach of Sidi Mghait. It is a peaceful place, overlooked by the simple farmhouse of a peasant family, a luxurious modern villa built by a wealthy European businessman, and a small mosque. Appearances here are decep...

Anna Roussillon’s I Am The People is the charming, funny and fascinating portrait of a family, far from Tahrir Square in Egypt’s rural South, as they follow the Tahrir uprising via television news and local papers. From the toppling of President Mubarak to the election of Mohamed Morsi, the film cha...

In search of his origins, Guillaume Bordier, dancer and choreographer born in Vietnam and adopted by a French family, makes a DNA test with an American laboratory. The result is amazing: he finds at the age of 47, his biological mother and a family in the United States. This revelation opens a new c...

Love shouldn’t hurt. Too many marriages around the world turn from a promise of love to hidden violence, where the home is a prison. How do you escape from this situation, from mistreatment or even death? To a similar situation, same answers around the world, may it be in Finland, Mexico, India, Spa...

On the street corners of south Tel Aviv, stand, forgotten, public telephones, a reminder of the pre-cellular days. Every weekend, the phones come to life as migrant workers gather around them, taking advantage of the weekly day off to phone home. Waiting on the other end of the line are children, fi...

“Cakes for new mothers, Baden Caramel sweets, Quetsch strudel, Linzertorte…” A handwritten recipe book, covered in craft paper, held together by a simple piece of string. Deported by the nazis in Terezin, Mina Pächter wrote down, before dying of starvation, her best recipes to send to her daughter w...