Jürgen Ellinghaus
From 1884 to 1914, a small belt of land between the British Gold Coast Colony and French-governed Dahomey was part of the German overseas empire. "Togoland" - 100 years later: fragments of a colonial legacy......
Thomas Ciulei
On his farm in Moldavia, Costica Arhir stakes his honour on bringing up his three children well while his wife has left to work abroad. He supervises their studies, cuts their hair, reads to them and mobilises them on the farm, gets them to help with the housework and cooking. The mother’s absence i...
Aicha Macky
Married but childless, Aicha finds herself in a situation that is totally “out of the ordinary” in her country, Niger. Just like everywhere else in the world today, Niger also experiences problems with infertility. Relying on her personal experience – and addressing her thoughts to her mother who ...
François-Xavier DROUET
The revolutionary fervor that swept through Latin America in the 20th century owes much to the participation of millions of Christians who engaged in political struggles in the name of their faith. Driven by liberation theology, they paid a heavy tribute for undermining the traditional relationship ...
Christian Tran
The paintings and drawings of the Chauvet cave – made thirty six thousand years ago and discovered twenty years ago in the south of France – are the oldest human artistic expression to date. Their strength and modernity changed radically all the ideas we had on prehistorical art. The creation of an ...
Arnaud Robert
Nowadays flushing “human waste” away translates into millions of tons of water waste which has a negative impact on the environment, including water pollution. On another hand, in many parts of the world, people do not have access to safe and hygienic toilets, which can spread diseases. These disea...
Claire Simon
In Lussas, in the South of France, a small group of people has gathered in an old house which used to be the town’s grocery store. Among the vineyards and orchards of cherry trees in blossom, a business is being set up that is quite unique in the rural world: an ultra-modern platform to broadcast in...
François-Xavier Demanche & Thierry De Lestrade
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...
Clarisse Feletin
In Albertville (France) a young investigative Judge is in charge of a delicate case of industrial pollution : a defective waste incinerator seems to be responsible for the increase of cancer cases in the nearby community. The incinerator was shut down, the neighbors opened a court case… Following th...
Andrés Jarach
Andres Retamal is a famous rodeo champion and has been training and riding wild horses all around Patagonia for many years. At forty he is thinking about retiring but for his last season, he has decided to compete in the only rodeo that he hasn't won, in the little town of Gobernador Costa, two thou...