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In the favela of Gamboa (Bahia, Brazil), the terrace of Mônica’s restaurant has become trendy since influencers take selfies in this atypical setting on the edge of the bay of Salvador. But on the other side of this postcard, the inhabitants try to take advantage of this tourist bonanza to survive, ...

Filmmaker Marc Isaacs spends 6 months outside Highbury Magistrates Court in London as he takes an intimate look at the lives of those passing through the legal system. On the street outside the court, he speaks to armed robbers, long-term thieves, addicts and anxious relatives all awaiting judgement...

In June 1946 Michel Sima, sculptor and photographer, met with Picasso in Antibes. On Picasso’s request, Sima photographed his work in progress in the workshop he’d found for him at Grimaldi Palace, on a daily basis. The work of both these artists, the human experience and their friendship eventuall...

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...

Among the many ways that racism is deeply entrenched in our film culture is a technical one: the lighting for movie cameras has always been calibrated for white skin, with other production tools reflecting the same bias throughout cinema history. Three filmmakers collectively explore the literal, th...

ROJEK encounters members of the Islamic State, women and men detained in prison-camps, who are sharing a common dream: establishing a caliphate. Confronted with the fundamentalist beliefs of the jihadists, the film attempts to trace the beginning, the rise and fall of the Islamic State (ISIS) throug...

For decades, it was believed that the beginnings of art had emerged in Europe, 20,000 years ago at Lascaux, then 36,000 years at Chauvet... Recent researches are shaking up our understanding of art. The art of prehistory is much richer than we thought. Sculpture, music, painting… the creativity of S...

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...

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...