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A new generation of freelance photographers flies low-cost to war zones on their own dime in the hope of selling images to printed media or websites. The carefree attitude of their youth is quickly lost when they are confronted with reality. Take Corentin Fohlen, a young photo-journalist who travels...

« 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 the heart of Papua New Guinea, the Highlands attract tourists and foreign oil companies. Out of sight, a Huli family and their clan gave their land to ExxonMobil in a dream of modernity. But the money doesn’t come… Caught between rival tribes, greedy politicians and one of the most powerful multi...

Men between the ages of 20 and 40 have been confronted with an unforeseen pregnancy. In most cases, abortion followed. They reveal their feelings and thoughts about this event. Through these life stories, the film reflects on a man’s place in the relations between women and men....

Takuya is 18, with tousled hair and an athletic look. Driven by his father and sponsors, he leaves his hometown in Hokkaido to go to Tokyo and joins a sumo stable. There, he will share everything with the 10 other wrestlers : day-to-day life, training, social life and tournaments. Coproduced by Japa...

This film is not the story of a deportation but of the survival after deportation. For fifty years, Willy Holt was silent. He wanted to have a normal life: he needed to forget. In 1995, this celebrated art director, who worked with among others Woody Allen, Otto Preminger and Louis Malle, decided to...

During the day, Sabrina does housework to renovate the house from which she might be expelled. At night, she works as a stripper in a city night club to pay for her nursing studies. Greater than all past pains and shames is the bright dream of one’s own of a better profession and a job. A minutely o...

After the death of her uncle, a dignitary Mandingo Islam, the director films her family courtyard. A dispute over the estate has burst out between advocates of traditional law and proponents of official law, inherited from European colonization. The courtyard becomes the theater where the future of ...

The risk and adrenaline rush of skydiving can heighten the feeling of being alive. In this compelling documentary, five HIV-positive gay men spend a week preparing for their first solo parachute jump. The camaraderie inspired by the rigorous training and team-building exercises encourage the men to...

Filmmaker, Marc Isaacs, examines with charm and humour modern attitudes towards race in Barking, a white working class town to the East of London. Through the lives of five key characters from different ethnic backgrounds, Isaacs, a prominent but unseen presence, questions prejudices, and pries at p...