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The Emir Abdel Kader club in Algiers is an exception in the ultra masculine world of soccer. It is a women’s soccer club that defies the taboos and the constraints of the patriarchal Algerian society. It is a unique place where women from all walks of life meet, play and fight together to conquer wh...

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...

The documentary reveals the reality of the daily work of activists from an ocean defense organization Sea Shepherd. Less publicized but still as committed to the fight against polluters and poachers, today they use methods of action that are very different from the forceful interventions of the past...

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 ...

Ghorban reached France alone in 2010 when he was 12 years old. He had travelled over 12,000 km from Afghanistan, experiencing the terror and dangers of clandestine migration. He was taken into the care of the child welfare services, and his social workers addressed him to a psychologist. He had to t...

A few kilometers south of Tangier, near the port town of Asilah, lies the wide golden beach of Sidi Mghait. It is a peaceful place, overlooked by the simple farmhouse of a peasant family, a luxurious modern villa built by a wealthy European businessman, and a small mosque. Appearances here are decep...

In the Autumn of 1999, Putin was an unknown civil servant in charge of Russia's FSB, the country's ill-loved intelligence agency. How did it happen that he became Boris Yeltsin's heir as Russian president? This is the story of the deal that put Vladimir Putin into the Kremlin and a portrait of ...