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In 1940, Euphrosinia Kersnovskaya, known as Frosia, was a young landowner living in Bessarabia. She was 33 years old when the USSR invaded the country and sentenced her to relegation to Siberia. There began 18 years of wandering in the heart of the Gulag, which she recounted in 680 drawings with cap...

On January 25, 2011, Egyptian people rose up. Suddenly, the entire world is taken aback: in only 18 days, the popular rebellion caused the fall of Mubarak’s regime. Katia Jarjoura’s new film takes us three months earlier when anger was already brewing beneath the surface. Outraged by the illegitima...

Are backpackers destroying the planet—or saving it? How do travelers change the remote places they visit, and how are they changed? From the Bolivian jungle to the party beaches of Thailand, and from the deserts of Timbuktu, Mali to the breathtaking beauty of Bhutan, GRINGO TRAILS traces stories ove...

A barren rock island off the coast of Peru. No soil, no water, but hundreds of thousands of birds. For a period of ten years, only two guards may live on Guañape Sur. In the eleventh year though, hundreds of workers arrive for the harvest of Guano, the birds' excrement that can be used as a fertiliz...

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...

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...

Remedies for Hunger are found with new technological forms of nutrition which are of great interest to the agro business and the new Internet industrial giants, who are investing millions of dollars in innovative food supply start-ups. Those new methods, efficient to fight malnutrition, will also in...

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...

To prevent anxiety and optimize their wellbeing, an increasing number of people across the Western world use data technology. But what is actually measured when collecting data about our mental state? And what gets lost in this quest for our optimal selves?  ...