In March 2023, at the age of 84, theater director Ariane Mnouchkine decided to put together a theater workshop in Kyiv, Ukraine, with a hundred Ukrainian actors....
Kyiv Theater, an Island of Hope
Duccio Bellugi-Vannuccini, Thomas Briat
Duccio Bellugi-Vannuccini, Thomas Briat
In March 2023, at the age of 84, theater director Ariane Mnouchkine decided to put together a theater workshop in Kyiv, Ukraine, with a hundred Ukrainian actors....
Cyrielle Raingou
The Far North Region of Cameroon, bordering Nigeria, lives under military protection, threatened by murderous terrorist incursions. In the village of Kolofata, Mohamed, Ibrahim and Falta — indirect victims of Boko Haram — attempt to create a new future for themselves. Cyrielle Raingou’s camera captu...
Marc Isaacs
When filmmaker, Marc Isaacs, decided to make a documentary about a lift in a London tower block he had no idea how the residents would react and what they would reveal of their lives. He simply set himself up in the lift with his camera and waited for the right moment to ask questions. The result is...
Amikam Goldman
On the street corners of south Tel Aviv, stand, forgotten, public telephones, a reminder of the pre-cellular days. Every weekend, the phones come to life as migrant workers gather around them, taking advantage of the weekly day off to phone home. Waiting on the other end of the line are children, fi...
Mosco Levi Boucault
They claimed to be “men of honour”. In reality, they were killers for the Cosa Nostra (Sicily). Arrested in the early 1990s, they chose to work with the Italian justice and obtained the status of “pentiti” (state witnesses). Three of them tell their story: how they joined the mafia, what they experi...
Nathalie Prévost, Olivier Jobard
To explain the collective failure against Al Qaeda, it is necessary to look back at the history of the modern state inherited from colonization, as well as the history of ancient empires, for which all the different communities successively fought. ...
Dieudo Hamadi
Colonel Honorine, more commonly known as "Mama Colonel", works for the Congolese police force and heads the unit for the protection of minors and the fight against sexual violence. Having worked for 15 years in Bukavu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, she learns she is transferre...
Marc Isaacs
The film shot in the financial place of The City, focuses on several Londoners from various social classes during the 2008 economic crisis. From a high-end hedge fund manager to a spiritually oriented street sweeper seeking peace, Isaacs fluidly balances sensitive portraits of people striving to fin...
Anne Georget
“Cakes for new mothers, Baden Caramel sweets, Quetsch strudel, Linzertorte…” A handwritten recipe book, covered in craft paper, held together by a simple piece of string. Deported by the nazis in Terezin, Mina Pächter wrote down, before dying of starvation, her best recipes to send to her daughter w...
Chris van der Vorm
In Makoko, the largest slum on water in Nigeria, Mrs F. wants to unite women and perform the play called "Hear Word"; a women empowerment project about gender inequality based on true stories to get women out of their oppressed position, to convince them to speak up and encourage them to connect. Bu...