Tue, Oct 16, 2018
Deborah, 25, and M, 27, are living in bodies that Western medicine - and often society - deems taboo. Like an estimated 1.7 percent of people, they were born with variations in their sex characteristics that were different from classical understandings of male or female. For M, growing up intersex has also meant grappling with the fact that she underwent medically unnecessary surgeries to "normalize" her body as a very young child. But when M finds Deborah online, she is introduced to new voices, language, and representations that allow her to expand her understanding of who she is beyond medical terms. This beautifully crafted, poetic documentary joins brave young people as they seek to reappropriate their bodies and explore their identities, revealing both the limits of binary visions of sex and gender, and the irreversible physical and psychological impact of non-consensual surgeries on intersex infants.
Tue, Jan 30, 2018
From 1933 to 1945, medical research occupied a privileged place within the Third Reich. To validate its ideology, based on the classification of races, Nazism needs medicine and its practitioners. More than 70% of German doctors respond to this call. A commitment that cost the lives of several thousand deportees used as guinea pigs. Grandson of deportees, Michel Cymes traces the path of some of these doctors and seeks to understand how those who, like him, took the Hippocratic oath, were able to commit such atrocities.
Tue, Feb 6, 2018
What is the meaning of life ? Why do we live? Why are we dying? What is love ? These questions, the philosopher and best-selling author Frédéric Lenoir, asked them to children aged 7 to 10, during philosophical workshops he conducted in two elementary schools during a school year. He invites us to share the thoughts of these children, who face the complexity of the world and the violence of their emotions. Frédéric Lenoir is still amazed by the ability of children to seize existential questions, to argue, to debate - to become little philosophers.
Tue, Feb 13, 2018
The world's most consumed fruit has an untold story. The industrialization of the humble tomato preceded the globalized economy that was to follow. It is now as much of a commodity as wheat, rice, or petrol. The tomato's ability to create strongly identifiable products, such as ketchup, pizza sauce, soups, sauces, drinks or frozen dishes is unbeatable. As early as 1897, ten years before Ford started to mass produce cars, Heinz was already converting tomatoes into standardized cans of puree. They were one of the first companies to understand the power of branding. They banned unions, imposed uniform standards of production and established genetic laboratories that ensured identical tomato plantations all around the world. Today, wherever you are in the world, you can eat the same tomatoes. This film will trace the journey of tomato paste from Africa, Italy, China and America to show the consequences of this global business.
Tue, Jun 19, 2018
A year in Trémargat, a united, ecological, and happy little village in Brittany. The adventure of Trémargat began forty years ago and is now entering the important stage of transmission. The first generation is retiring and is passing on, as well as the farms, their experience and inspiring energy.
Thu, Nov 29, 2018
After seven years of war, Algeria became independent in 1962. The French in Algeria had to leave a country that was often adored. For the most part overnight. They withdrew to their homeland, France, where many had never been. How did they come to this exodus? What do they live with afterwards? Repatriates from all walks of life talk about their life "over there". They relive their panic at the time of the flight, the brutal fall into an unknown homeland. They show the woundedness of the welcome they received upon arrival. But almost all of them admit to a successful integration in the end, and many recognize that French Algeria was a utopia.