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Since the 19th century, the fate of cows has been tied to new methods and progress in animal science. Genetics and new ways of rearing animals have accelerated bovine biological transformation and manipulation. These are no longer the same cash cows of yesteryear; men have adapted the bodies of catt...

Men and cattle living side by side. A few shepherds live up in the mountains, high above the valley with 150 cows. There is no real boss, alot of work, but also freedom up there, lost between the edge of the mountains and the skies. A cinematographic essay that pays particular attention to rhythm, ...

The Bozos in Mali have been renowned for many generations for their skills in the art of fishing. They know the waters of the Niger River better than anyone else, and they are on good terms with the water spirits. In recent years, however, their lives have become increasingly difficult, as fish stoc...

“My father always told me: 'Of the three sons, the one who works the land will take over the farm.' I liked this place and hoped to live here one day. But I never wanted the land, my desire to become a filmmaker was stronger. My second brother, Régis, is getting ready to take over the farming. Filmi...

For 37 years, first on foot, by bike and then motorcycle, He Fu Quang has been travelling the back roads of Sichuan bringing wherever he goes “culture and cinema,” as he says. Offered by the Chinese government, the films are now sent via satellite from Beijing to Chengdu where He Fu Quang, known as ...

Remedies for Hunger are found with new technological forms of nutrition which are of great interest to the agro business and the new Internet industrial giants, who are investing millions of dollars in innovative food supply start-ups. Those new methods, efficient to fight malnutrition, will also in...

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...

In a hospital for elephants in Thailand, men and animals coexist for months, their lives intertwined. It is a limbo where time stands still, taken up by the nursing of the animals and intimate conversations amongst the caretakers. More than a mere account of day-to-day activities, this is the chroni...

In Lussas, in the South of France, a small group of people has gathered in an old house which used to be the town’s grocery store. Among the vineyards and orchards of cherry trees in blossom, a business is being set up that is quite unique in the rural world: an ultra-modern platform to broadcast in...

As the symbol of authentic, preserved wild nature, forests are undergoing an unprecedented phase of industrialization.  Heavy mechanization, monoculture, fertilizers and pesticides, loss of traditional know-how,  forest management... all follow the intensive agricultural model at an accelerated ryth...