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For over 6 months, filmmaker Fabienne Game followed the marketing team at Dove, flagship brand of the multinational Unilever. From briefings to debriefings, from a product campaign to a 'corporate' campaign, from the launch of a new shampoo to that of a slogan claiming every woman is beautiful, “Any...

Nadezhda, in Bulgaria, is one of the biggest and worst Roma ghettos in Europe. 20,000 people live packed into an unsanitary environment, walled off from the city by a three metre high wall. Nadezhda itself is strikingly symbolic of the apartheid that most Roma suffer from in Europe today. A glimmer...

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...

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...

The Hummer, a direct descendent of the HUMVEE, the vehicle of the American army, is quickly becoming the 4x4 of choice in European cities. Half truck, half car, the gas-guzzler is a big hit among automobile enthusiasts, especially women. In this humorous documentary, the director went looking for th...

Today in Europe, we produce 203 million pigs a year. In less then 30 years this quantity has doubled. What has happened during these years? What have we done to the animals and to the people that produce them? In spring 2003, two breeders, one in France the other in Spain, agreed to show Manuela Fré...

Through the daily life of a general practitioner, this film offers an investigation into today's medical practices - practices which have become so specialised and modernised that they sometimes bypass what was once their foundation: the doctor's appointment and clinical exam. We attend the doctor's...

Alerted by the fact that numerous African Aids patients regularly consult traditional healers, the doctor Moussa Maman, an ethno-psychiatrist practicing in France for 20 years, takes us to Bénin, Niger and Sénégal to meet these healers. Confusion abounds between the real traditional healers who figh...

Just east of Jerusalem, the construction of the separation wall continues a few meters from a senior citizen's home. Its unavoidable and spectacular progression, as seen through the eyes of the residents, gradually isolates them from the world of the living and announces their approaching death. ...

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...