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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...

This documentary comedy shows us that a scientific film can be both funny and effective at once. Thomas B, hardcore smoker, is giving up. He was a heavy but happy smoker will he become a happy non-smoker ? Through his personal diary, we bare witness to his changing moods. We accompany him on his reg...

The knowledge needed to build the atomic bomb was not given to us, it was consciously pursued. And the world has been living with the consequences ever since. Snake Dance is a personal reading of humankind’s catastrophic decision to play God. From New Mexico to Congo and Japan, we explore the atomi...

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...

Stony Paths is the story of a walk across Anatolia. Arnaud Khayadjanian starts a trek in Turkey, on the land of his forefathers who survived the Armenian Genocide. Starting from a painting, from encounters and from accounts by his relatives, he goes on exploring the little known issue of the Righteo...

Being thrown down a flight of stairs, hit by a car or beaten up is the everyday life for stuntwomen. We follow Virginie, Petra and Estelle during training sessions and on film sets in France and the US. What does all this pretend-violence do to their bodies and minds? There is always a trade-off bet...

Ada is 19. A man she knows invites her to dinner and she accepts. Everything goes so quickly. She doesn’t defend herself. Body and mind in tatters. In spite or because of that, she returns twice to confront him. Her story is intertwined with others, each one different yet all the same – a nasty, in...

The village of Yahidne in northern Ukraine is coming back to life. Dogs are running around. Gardens and crops are green again. People support one another and families have reunited. In a movement of solidarity, local youth help rebuild what was devastated a year ago when Russian troops occupied the ...

In Bangui, Rodrigue and Reine are a couple very involved in the activities of their church. But they live with a terrible secret: they are sick with AIDS and carry it like a divine punishment. When Rodrigue is offered the position of assistant pastor, he has doubts: is he worthy of leading the churc...