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...
Georgi Lazarevski
At ninety-one years of age, Aimé has decided to fulfil his dream journey to Morocco that he’s been planning for 40 years. His director/photographer grandson travels with him. A journey both tender and bitter, filled with missed opportunities and fleeting pleasures. Like life itself....
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...
Sandrine Loncke
On the banks of the Moyen-Chari River, in Southern Chad, young linguist Florian Lionnet is documenting Láàl, a language isolate only spoken in two small villages, which is threatened of disappearing in the short to medium term. For the time being, however, people in this part of the world commonly s...
Juliette Cazanave
Eleonor, Jutta, Elli, Carola and Lilo are American citizens. Perfectly at home there, it’s hard to imagine what these women have endured in their lives. Nevertheless, they were all born in Germany, brought up under the Nazis and the bombings. Just out of their teens, all five of them married Americ...
Marc Isaacs
Award winning filmmaker Marc Isaacs explores the secret life of Britain's truckers, discovering an uncharted world of isolation, loneliness and the open road. Finding many of these men sleeping in their own trucks in lay-by car parks and service stations, this film is an intimate and poignant portra...
Edyta Sorrel & Vincent Sorrel
A documentary through a simple story about human and economical events that are taking place nowadays in Poland. Another image of the traditional life in the country that is rapidly vanishing, shaken by a sudden change in society. Grandmother is dying and so is her farm. Her son will not stay alone ...
Juan Martin Cueva
Juan, the film director, is Ecuadorian, his partner, Francisca, is Cuban. They live in Paris where their two children were born, just like Juan 30 years earlier. By switching back and forward from past to present, between the history of a family across 3 generations and that of a whole continent, th...
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...
Aicha Macky
In the town of Zinder in Niger, in the poor area of Kara-Kara which used to be the lepers’ district, a culture of gang violence reigns. A group of youths is trying to break free from this violence, some are trying to start a family and make a life for themselves rather than end up in prison. Aicha M...