Thomas Johnson
The Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz have become the battlefields where our future and that of the planet are being played out. This film documents 30 years of war that marked the return of religion in the realm of politics. It began in 1979 and the Iranian revolution, and develops over with ...
Jürgen Ellinghaus
"Togoland Projections" takes us to the territory of the former German colony of Togo. We follow the film expedition of director Hans Schomburgk who shot documentary and adventure films there in 1913-1914. At each stage of our journey, we show his films to today's Togolese public and question Togo's ...
Philippe Borrel & Gilbert Charles
3 years after the human genome was mapped, scientists began trying to crack the deepest secrets of our identity. On the basis of the analysis of one hair or one cigarette butt, geneticists claim that they are able to tell if a person is of Jewish, African or Asian heritage; to know his skin colour, ...
Feriel Ben Mahmoud
Day by day, this film tells the story of a difficult birth: that of the first democracy in the Arab world. In 6 months, no less than 110 political parties were created. In this political turmoil, a few of them emerge: the Islamist party Ennhada seduces those disappointed with the revolution. Some ot...
Xavier Villetard
His future looked glorious. The battles, the achievements, the medals. Unscrupulously from one war to the next. However, one day in 1957 he refuses to obey orders justifying the use of torture during the war in Algeria. “Globetrotter par excellence” he turns to the side of non-violence. The destiny...
Anne Poiret
Welcome to Refugeestan focuses on the way the UNHCR manages camps that shelter more than sixteen million refugees all around the world, creating a virtual country as large as the Netherlands. How does the UNHCR run these camps and train its representatives? How can they deal with the urgent needs of...
Mehran Tamadon
Taghi, Homa and Mazyar were arrested and interrogated by the Iranian regime. All three testify with their bodies, with their gestures and tell what it means to resist, what it means to break. Is there any hope that the torturer will one day reconnect with his conscience ?...
Sonia Gonzalez
The inspirational story of the first all-female peace camp of Greenham Common, told from the inside by the women who were there. The protest camp began in England in 1981 to block the installation of nuclear weapons on European soil, marking the dawn of a global ecofeminist movement. ...
Samir Abdallah & Josée Reynès
Following an appeal by the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwich, a founding member of the International Parliament of Writers besieged in Ramallah, a delegation of writers travels to the city to demonstrate alongside the Palestinians a “fine example of linguistic collaboration” in this “high place of sp...
Claire Billet, Olivier Jobard
A Syrian refugee couple, Ahmad and Jihane, tell the story of their exile to Sweden to their youngest daughter Sally. They recount their journey as migrants being smuggled across borders, evoke memories of their beloved Syria, and talk of the violence which is present at all times... Ahmad and Jihane...