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Takuya is 18, with tousled hair and an athletic look. Driven by his father and sponsors, he leaves his hometown in Hokkaido to go to Tokyo and joins a sumo stable. There, he will share everything with the 10 other wrestlers : day-to-day life, training, social life and tournaments. Coproduced by Japa...

Every two years, the small town of Beverungen, somewhere in the middle of Germany, celebrates its traditional Marksmen's Festival. In 2008, Beverungen has the honour of hosting the annual festival of the “Confederation of Historical German Marksmen's Brotherhoods" with thousands of participants com...

Here we are, in Dr Moussa Maman’s surgery. The room is basic, the space cramped: a few chairs, a plain rug on the floor to be used as a bed. The characters: Dr Maman, his assistant and a few patients who come by, including a witch doctor. This doctor moves freely, without batting an eyelid, from Eur...

In Agadez, Niger, as elsewhere, there are police officers and court hearings. But alongside this, another judicial system exists, living heritage of a muslim tradition. The 'Cadi' is a judge of the peace who uses the Koran as his reference. 'Cadi' court hearings are scenes where a whole society is r...

Filmed over three years the film tells the story of the last surviving South African Bushmen and their struggle to reclaim their land in the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park. From the sand dunes of the Kalahari to the Johannesburg skyscrapers, the film follows the Bushmen leader, Dawid Kruiper, on his...

Igor and Luba are actors with the Saratov theatre. During the festive season they earn extra money by going from house to house dressed up as Father Christmas andthe Little Snow Maiden. Keeping to tradition, once they have given out all the presents to the children, they spend time with each famil...

In the northern territory of Australia, a small community of Aboriginals have decided to abandon life in town for a return to life in the bush. In rediscovering their traditional medicine, and exploring with scientists the possibilities offered by the natural laboratory that is the Australian bush, ...

Alerted by the fact that numerous African Aids patients regularly consult traditional healers, the doctor Moussa Maman, an ethno-psychiatrist practicing in France for 20 years, takes us to Bénin, Niger and Sénégal to meet these healers. Confusion abounds between the real traditional healers who figh...

As the symbol of authentic, preserved wild nature, forests are undergoing an unprecedented phase of industrialization.  Heavy mechanization, monoculture, fertilizers and pesticides, loss of traditional know-how,  forest management... all follow the intensive agricultural model at an accelerated ryth...

A documentary through a simple story about human and economical events that are taking place nowadays in Poland. Another image of the traditional life in the country that is rapidly vanishing, shaken by a sudden change in society. Grandmother is dying and so is her farm. Her son will not stay alone ...