Fanny Tondre
Three determined female lawmakers in Europe’s corridors of power take on aggressive lobbyists, multinationals and governments as they race to pass a landmark law against modern slavery and environmental destruction....
Michel Vuillermet
1938, facing an incredible outburst of antisemitism and in the light of the tragedy experienced by the masses of all those persecuted by the Nazi regime, 32 nations met in Evian-Les-Bains for an international conference on refugees. This conference raised a question that until then had been off-limi...
Bijan Anquetil & Paul Costes
The Iran-Irak war lasted eight years: from 1980 to 1988. Enormous frescos of the faces of those who died in the war cover the walls of every Iranian city. These portraits exalt the “martyrs”. Today, seventeen years after the end of the war, a whole generation later, the martyrs faces are still a ...
Sani Elhadj Magori
The Galmi purple, the onion from Niger, pervades West African markets with 400,000 tons a year. In Galmi, Salamatou’s been waiting for her wedding for 2 years. Her father Yaro, urged both by her future in-laws and the village gossip makes a decision : «The wedding will take place at the harvest !» Y...
François Caillat
Michel Foucault died in June 1984. He left behind a legendary work that has been translated into all the languages of the world, and that has been the subject of a thousand interpretations. The man was much like his work: complex and contradictory. Our film mirrors all the facets of his hectic life....
Katia Jarjoura
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...
Fodil Chabbi and Julien Dubois
The Emir Abdel Kader club in Algiers is an exception in the ultra masculine world of soccer. It is a women’s soccer club that defies the taboos and the constraints of the patriarchal Algerian society. It is a unique place where women from all walks of life meet, play and fight together to conquer wh...
Pegi Vail
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...
János Richter
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...
Andrey Samouté Diarra
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...