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French artist Daniel Buren is the creator of hundreds of installations that have marked the landscape of contemporary art. He has now conceived a unique work to occupy, for an entire month’s time, the central empty space of the Guggenheim Museum. But no matter how spectacular it may be, this work – ...

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 ...

This documentary directed by Monet's great-grandson, relates Claude Monet’s life and work in Giverny, based on unpublished letters and private photos. From 1883 to his death in 1926, Claude Monet lived in this house, far from the hustle and bustle of Paris. There he took his painting to new heights,...

After being evicted from their housing, the Kamalanathan family, who arrived from Sri Lanka nearly 30 years ago, moved into the cramped backroom of their grocer’s shop. This film, filled with tenderness and audacity, and peppered by Bollywood-style musical interludes sung by the protagonists, also 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...

For two decades, the victims of the Six-Day War in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been fighting in Kisangani for the recognition of this bloody conflict and demanding compensation. Tired of unsuccessful pleas, they have finally decided to voice their claims in Kinshasa, after a long journey d...

On the 31st of July 1944, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry disappeared over the Mediterranean Sea. With this mystery, a myth was born. Who was the man whose book The Little Prince was translated into more than 250 languages and dialects? The film looks back at different moments of his intense life with an i...

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...

Are backpackers destroying the planet—or saving it? How do travelers change the remote places they visit, and how are they changed? From the Bolivian jungle to the party beaches of Thailand, and from the deserts of Timbuktu, Mali to the breathtaking beauty of Bhutan, GRINGO TRAILS traces stories ove...

A barren rock island off the coast of Peru. No soil, no water, but hundreds of thousands of birds. For a period of ten years, only two guards may live on Guañape Sur. In the eleventh year though, hundreds of workers arrive for the harvest of Guano, the birds' excrement that can be used as a fertiliz...