Current Affairs / Politics

A new generation of freelance photographers flies low-cost to war zones on their own dime in the hope of selling images to printed media or websites. The carefree attitude of their youth is quickly lost when they are confronted with reality. Take Corentin Fohlen, a young photo-journalist who travels...

This is the uplifting and dramatic story of three generations of Belgian industry tycoon, narrated among others by Jean-Edouard Empain, whose abduction in 1978 signed the downfall of an extraordinary family empire. His voice and those of researchers mingle with rich archives, films and photographs,...

Officially, the Rif war was fought from 1920 to 1926, to crush the rebellion towards independance led by AbdelKrim in a remote area of Morocco. This war involved hundreds of thousands of men and considerable resources. The Rif war not only called into question the colonial system, but it also marked...

The film returns to the origins of the creation of the State of Israel and looks at the history of Zionism (1896-1948) under the very specific angle of the responsibility of the Western World. Through the analysis of internationally renowned scholars and astonishing cinematographic archives, the fil...

The latest trend among the Russian oligarchs is to purchase works of art, a way to get into the Kremlin’s good graces, to gild their image… and to cover up the origin of their fortunes, often acquired in the shadow of post-soviet power. Following these new amateurs in the footprints of the well-kno...

Deported at 13, Simone Lagrange is an Auschwitz-Birkenau survivor and one of the principal witnesses at the Klaus Barbie trial. The film is an opportunity for her to tell her story. "I have not become what they wanted me to be." she often tells teen-agers that gather to listen to her account. The s...

‘‘Don’t build prisons, they cost too much!’’ In this era of Great Recession, the conservative and tough-on-crime State of Texas takes an unprecedented path by becoming a social justice leader with programs that rehabilitate offenders. Several teenagers’ journeys to get a second chance are paralleled...

The link between coronary accidents and cholesterol in the blood is a mainstream medical dogma that has been going on for the last 50 years. It has led to the development of a billion dollars “low-fat” food industry; and the prescription of statins the most sold medicine in the world. Yet, more and ...

Ciné-Guerrillas is a documentary that take us on an archival road trip through the birth of the Third World project, based on unseen 35mm materials filmed by Stevan Labudović, the cameraman of Yugoslav President Tito.  It plunges us into the media battle that played out during the Algerian war for i...

Diabetes will affect one adult in 10 by 2040. It is ruining lives and weighing heavily on public finances. The disease is still not being treated properly. A whole system has gone off track because patients either take too many drugs or can no longer afford them. Only the pharmaceutical industry se...