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« A Day With… » is a series of ten portraits of children living in West Africa. They are seven to twelve years old. They live in Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger. Each film tells the story of an ordinary day, at school, at home, from a child’s point of view. Each day has its upbeats and offbeat...

In 2013 a trial put an end to a paedophilia case that took place from 1969 to 2001. Those kids now adults between 30 and 50 years old, testify and help us understand why silence and guilt have kept them from denouncing their aggressor as they were trapped in a system they were unarmed to fight. It ...

It's dawn and there are already more than a hundred, apparently healthy women from all walks of life, waiting outside the Santa Casa de Misericordia, one of the oldest health institutes in Brazil. Why are they here? The queue goes on forever… They are waiting for the doors to open on the Plastic ...

“Can I do a portrait of you with your favourite work of art?’ This is the question that I put to people, chosen more or less randomly, in the galleries of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. This is how our walks began, some of them kilometers long, in search of these images. This is how the film begins. Wh...

He was not of my family, at least not of the blood related type. He was just my best friend and had always been standing by my side. On a bad day in February, even though we had planned to meet for lunch, he never showed up…...