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Vitaly is a nuclear physicist and record-holder in extreme cold-exposure training who now makes a living as a bricklayer, surviving below the poverty line in Novosibirsk. Like the rest of his family, former scientists and members of the old Soviet Elite, he dreams of a return to the great Soviet Uni...

In the Autumn of 1999, Putin was an unknown civil servant in charge of Russia's FSB, the country's ill-loved intelligence agency. How did it happen that he became Boris Yeltsin's heir as Russian president? This is the story of the deal that put Vladimir Putin into the Kremlin and a portrait of ...

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...

Two brothers separated by a war Drazan, political refugee in Marseille, France. Dejan in Bosanski Brod, Bosnia-Hercegovinia, an industrial city agonizing at the Croatian border. In 2007, Drazan decides to go and see his brother. The Exiled. The former soldier. The path they walk. The “bridge” they...

In Nazi concentration camps, the Gulag and Japanese war camps, deportees wrote cooking recipes. Hundreds of those recipes were copied in small notebooks by starving human beings of all origins–women, men, young, old, French, Russians, Americans–who took huge risks to write and keep them. Telling abo...

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...

In 1972, a dart on a map of Europe changes the life of Congolese-Belgian musician Jack Roskam: he moves to Croatia, part of Yugoslavia at that time. After a career as a guitar player in a well-known local band, Galija, he is confronted wit the Balkan war. While his colleagues start to sing Serbian p...

A camp site, the beach, the ripening wheat, the Tour de France : JULY… Nothing extraordinary, nevertheless in the course of a shrimping expedition, words and faces express what is essentiel : the rich, the poor, the good God, friendship, years of labour, war, good luck, kids’ futures… To the rythm o...

The Sonepur Fair in India is about to begin! Colourful multitudes cut through the dusty, sticky air as the ecstatic sound of drums fills the space. An event like no other, a carnival of magical realism inhabited by exotic dancers, exorcists, stuntmen and elephant tamers. “Roll up, roll up, our ci...