Current Affairs / Politics

Energy is a key to progress and growth but both are synonymous to pollution. From Kyoto to Copenhagen the release of CO2 in the atmosphere has not stopped increasing. The critical line has been reached and we cannot count on the main actors (USA and China) to interfere in this evolution. Finding sol...

Progress and growth are both synonymous with pollution. From Kyoto to Copenhagen the release of CO2 in the atmosphere has not stopped increasing. The critical line has been reached. A whole range of so-called sustainable technologies are already carried out but no solution seems truly feasible witho...

Two years ago, Notre-Dame of Paris cathedral’s roof tops were destroyed by flames in front of the eyes of the whole world. Since then, we have seen the clearance and securing efforts and eventually the start of a huge reconstruction task ahead. Men and women at the reconstruction site of Notre-Dame’...

Filmmaker Marc Isaacs spends 6 months outside Highbury Magistrates Court in London as he takes an intimate look at the lives of those passing through the legal system. On the street outside the court, he speaks to armed robbers, long-term thieves, addicts and anxious relatives all awaiting judgement...

Countries like China and India have entered our car-addicted society model. But this is no longer sustainable and finding solutions that are capable of replacing 100% of fossil energies in the next ten to twenty years is the challenge and the race has started. Could de-growth and a redistribution of...

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...

The threat of famine and increasing food shortages is not going to go away, on the contrary. Above and beyond the stock market phenomenon lies the problem of the decline in food production that now has a structural basis. The demonstration is overwhelming and forces on us the question: are we capabl...

Atchinsk, 2500 miles away from Moscow, a Siberian town to which Soviet dissidents and, before them, the Tsar's opponents were deported. Campaign for presidential elections. Cold winter. The people are not really keen on talking politics. Iouri, political hireling working for Putin's party explains t...

The story of how one small amazon tribe is fighting furiously to defend their future - and ours... 70% of Ecuador’s Amazon, home to some 12 tribes, has been divided into oil blocks, polluting one of the most biodiverse rainforests of the planet. Only one small tribe, the Waorani, have successfully...

How does one build a country from scratch? STATE BUILDERS follows a determined UN official and the newly appointed Vice-President as they attempt to put theory into practice to shape the young democracy of the Republic of South Sudan. In July 2011 it became the world's newest nation after a 50-year...