Society

In a quiet corner of England, a former rabbi is living a life based on the ancient patriarchy of the Old Testament. Six years ago, God told the rabbi that he was to become a Hebrew King, and like a good patriarch, he was to take multiple wives. Now he raises horses, runs four second-hand furniture s...

Countries like China and India have entered our car-addicted society model. But this is no longer sustainable and finding solutions that are capable of replacing 100% of fossil energies in the next ten to twenty years is the challenge and the race has started. Could de-growth and a redistribution of...

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...

West African waters have been overexploited for more than 40 years, largely by foreign fleets from Europe, Russia and Asia. The collapse of fish stocks threatens fishermen and their families, an important part of Senegalese society. ...

Filmed over three years the film tells the story of the last surviving South African Bushmen and their struggle to reclaim their land in the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park. From the sand dunes of the Kalahari to the Johannesburg skyscrapers, the film follows the Bushmen leader, Dawid Kruiper, on his...

The threat of famine and increasing food shortages is not going to go away, on the contrary. Above and beyond the stock market phenomenon lies the problem of the decline in food production that now has a structural basis. The demonstration is overwhelming and forces on us the question: are we capabl...

Igor and Luba are actors with the Saratov theatre. During the festive season they earn extra money by going from house to house dressed up as Father Christmas andthe Little Snow Maiden. Keeping to tradition, once they have given out all the presents to the children, they spend time with each famil...

Jean-Benoît is seventeen years old and lives with his mother. When he was twelve, his father committed suicide. As a vulnerable adolescent, threatened by the temptations of self-destruction and irresolute half measures, he is permanently on the razor’s edge. Filmed over three years, the film is par...

Sometimes comical but often tragic, sleepiness takes an important part in our lives. First cause of lethal highway accidents, drowsiness invites itself in our work. What happens with our brain? Can we master sleepiness? By working on the sleep and especially on the functioning of awakening, researc...

Atchinsk, 2500 miles away from Moscow, a Siberian town to which Soviet dissidents and, before them, the Tsar's opponents were deported. Campaign for presidential elections. Cold winter. The people are not really keen on talking politics. Iouri, political hireling working for Putin's party explains t...