A COUNTER-HISTORY OF INTERNET 52’ A look back at the emergence of Internet freedom defence movements that have sprung up in reaction to growing regulation of the Web by governments and multinationals.

HACKERS FOR FREEDOM 52’A fascinating investigation from the US, France and India, to meet activists and industrials who struggle to defend the free code, not only in the computer business, but every industry such as automobiles or agriculture.

BAHRAIN, IMMERSED IN A FORBIDDEN COUNTRY 52’ 3 destinies, 3 perspectives, from the forbidden country of the Arab Revolution.

RHINO MAFIA 52’ & 90’ A documentary thriller about one of the world’s most profitable illegal trades: Rhinoceros horn. At 50,000 euros per kilo, it sells for a higher price than gold or cocaine... it is said to be a miracle cure.

SHOULD WE BE AFRAID OF GOOGLE? 90’ An in-depth and entertaining delve into the Google phenomenon, the company that has experienced such breathtaking success, and that now worries people on account of its powerfulness.

RIVAL PRINCES OF THE GULF 52’ PROVISIONAL DELIVERY MAY 2019 On one side the Qatar emir, Tamim Al Thani, 38. On the other, Mohammed “MBS” Ben Salman, 33, crown prince of Saudi Arabia. In his contention for the position of strong man in the Middle East, he can count on his ally: Abu Dhabi Crown prince Mohammed “MBZ” Ben Zayed, a military strategist who became regent of the United Arab Emirates and who dreams of conquests. Beyond the ego war, the movie delves into their power struggle and sheds a light on the stakes and strategies in this region of the world.

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THE WORLD AFTER FUKUSHIMA 52’ & 78’ What are people’s lives like 2 years after a nuclear catastrophe? A sad and sorry return to the region of Fukushima, somewhere between resistance and despair.

SAND WARS 52’ & 75’ This fascinating ecological investigation unveils a global emergency: the threat to sand. It is a vital resource of which the pillaging has intensified for the needs of concrete construction.

WHEN CHINA RELOCATES TO EUROPE 52’ & 75’ An investigation on Chinese relocation in Europe and on the increasing place of Chinese companies and Chinese workers on the old continent.

ART TRAFFICKING - A GRAY MARKET 52’ & 90’ Estimated at 7 billion Euros a year, the traffic of art is the third largest traffic activity in the world, after drugs and weapons.

CHINA’S CONQUEST OF THE WEST 52’ China’s “New Silk Roads” project is one of President Xi Jinping’s grandest designs - perhaps even the grandest - a vast plan to create land and sea trade routes across the whole of Eurasia, stretching right into Europe.

NUCLEAR SECURITY: THE BIG LIE 2x52’ In a groundbreaking two year investigation across four major nuclearized countries, France, Belgium, Germany and the USA, discover how vulnerable we actually are and how close we have already come to such attacks.

STARBUCKS UNFILTERED 52’ & 90’ Starbucks is now a part of our daily lives. Like McDonald’s, its 22.000 coffeehouses present in 67 countries have made it a recognizable symbol of globalization. This film explores the brand’s appeal, what made its success and reveals the coffee giant’s dark underside.

NUCLEAR LANDS 52’ & 90’ The film explains the origins of plutonium and examines its evolution from a matter used for military purposes to one which is used for nuclear energy.

THE TERROR ROUTES 2x75’ On Tuesday 11 September 2001, all eyes were riveted on New York. But what do we really know about the pilots? How did the situation escalate to the point it did?

NINE/ELEVEN MEMORIES 17x3’ Various personalities all answer the same questions: where were you on 11 September 2001? What were your first thoughts? What was your first reaction? With Donald Trump, Youssou N’Dour…

NEW MONUMENTS MEN 52’ This documentary invites you to meet those who work to protect and revive these treasures of humanity, those who fight to save the culture. 2018 ARKHAIOIS PRIZE.

THE CABAL 52’ This enlightening enquiry reveals the details of a lie told to the American people, to Congress, to the allies, to the United Nations and to the world at large.

IT’S A BET! SPORTS AND GAMBLING 52’ & 75’ From Macao to London, Geneva and Shanghai, this detective story into a hermetic and secret world investigates what is bound to become a scandal of international proportions.

AN EYE ON YOU, CITIZENS UNDER SURVEILLANCE 52’ & 90’ Do any areas of our lives escape surveillance any more? Citizens of the 21st Century are the focus of prying eyes, whether they agree to it or not.

THE DISAPPEARED OF SYRIA, AN INVISIBLE WAR 52’ This film is a chilling investigation into the invisible weapon of Bashar al-Assad’s regime: the kidnapping, torture and murder of tens of thousands of Syrians. ALBERT LONDRES PRIZE 2016 IN THE AUDIOVISUAL PRESS CATEGORY.

CHILDREN OF ISIS 52’ The members of the Islamic State call them “lion cubs.” They are between 4 and 16 years old. They were brainwashed and abused for many months in military and religious training camps.

DAESH DESERTERS SPEAK OUT 52’ Personal testimonies from Islamic State defectors and those who have helped them escape. This exceptional documentary reveals what daily life is like inside Daesh.

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DEBT MACHINE 52’ & 80’ What exactly is public debt? And why has it been spiraling for years? This documentary takes viewers on a fascinating journey through the rugged landscape of economics, and renders it more human.

KILLER FINANCE 2x52’ Why must public money be given to private banks facing bankruptcy? A remarkable investigation into the madness of a system.

WHO OWNS AMERICA? 56’ We embark upon a journey to the heart of American society and its economy, examining the details of this huge-scale debt, which, hushed up, will cause an economic crash.

RICEJACKING 52’ & 90’ Golden FIPA and Etoile de la SCAM, this film sheds light on the subject of future commercial wars: the control of agricultural resources.

THE CITY 52’ We plunge into the heart of world finance, meeting its players and detractors, into the heart of its highly secret and opaque universe, to give viewers insight into the invisible forces that reign over our world.

NORTH KOREA: PRESIDENT’S MEN 52’ (AR) In 2018, for the first time since the end of the Korean War in 1953, Donald Trump, president of the United States and Kim Jong Un, leader of North Korea, met. Supported by South Korean, they pledged to open a new era of peace. ALBERT LONDRES PRIZE 2018.

GOD SAVE RUSSIA 52’ In Moscow, religious power and political power work hand in hand in building Russia’s new ultra conservative and imperial identity. Kirill, the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church is Putin’s ally.

VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVICH PUTIN’S ENFANTS TERRIBLES 43’ 2005. Following the Ukrainian Orange Revolution, the young Russian opposition feels committed to a historical mission for Russia.

POLITIC

JAPAN, A POWER CRISIS 52’ After its defeat in 1945, Japan pushed the population to turn inward to a strong and revisionist nationalist power. But is this ideology from the past a threat to its present democracy?

MEETING SNOWDEN 5x26’ As a former CIA and NSA collaborator, Edward Snowden leaked the biggest mass surveillance scandal of the century. A secret meeting between him and global freedom and civil rights campaigners, Birgitta Jonsdottir and Larry Lessig turns into a freewheeling discussion about the future of democracy.

IRAN, DREAMS OF AN EMPIRE 52’ Summing up nearly forty years of geopolitical evolution since the Ayatollah Khomeini Islamic Revolution, this film is an exciting journey to the heart of the Iranian mystery.

JUSTIN TRUDEAU, THE OTHER AMERICA 52’ By smartly combining the absence of ideology and the power of both data mining and digital campaigning Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau embodies the “XXIth century liberalus homo politicus”.

DOZHD, THE LAST INDEPENDENT MEDIA IN RUSSIA 52’ Following three characters fighting to save the information, the documentary shows how the news is made, and their strategies to resist. In the Russia of Putin, Dozhd’ is the leading independent news channel. Followed by 10 million people, it offers sufficiently subversive content targeted by Russian authorities, and undergoes financial and moral pressures.

ISLAMIC NGO’S 52’ This film provides insight into the European Islamic humanitarian aid’s little-known reality – through its main organizations and some of their members’ shared destinies in England, France and Germany.

BURMA, THE POWER OF MONKS 52’ The country is facing a the rise of a fierce nationalist sentiment targeting the Muslim community of the Rohingya people, and spread by a group of extremist Buddhist monks.

EUROPE, THE RISE OF POPULISM 52’ & 81’ Surfing on rising discontent in the face of economic recession or crisis, populist movements have multiplied electoral victories. How can the growing success of these organizations be explained?

CALAIS CHILDREN: A CASE TO ANSWER 52’ As the Calais jungle was set to be razed in October 2016, there were over 1900 unaccompanied minors stranded there - many of whom had a legal case to enter the UK. Sue followed them.

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OCALAN AND THE KURDISH QUESTION 52’ Kurdistan, which is split over Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria, could play a major role in a Middle East that has been torn apart. But who are the Kurds? What influence do they have? And who exactly is Abdullah Öcalan, leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party?

HAVE FUN IN PYONGYANG 52’ North Korea does indeed exist. This movie sets out to meet it beyond the totalitarian varnish covering it. We will observe North-Korean society as amateur anthropologists. It is a choice: stop caring about the North Korean political regime and rediscover its people.

PRISON VALLEY: THE PRISON INDUSTRY 30’ & 60’ More than one in a hundred adults are now incarcerated in the U.S. - that figure is higher than in China or Russia. Source: “One in 100”, The Pew Center on the States, 2008.

OPEN PRISONS, A STEP TOWARDS REHABILITATION 52’&90’ At a time when France is envisaging prison reform, other European countries have already been experimenting for quite some time with a different mode of incarceration, so as to favor rehabilitation.

FEMEN, NAKED WAR 52’ Young filmmaker and activist Joseph Paris came across the revolt of the Ukrainian feminist movement Femen in spring 2012, and followed them for one year.

BHUTAN, IN PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS 52’ Nestled in the heart of the Himalayas, in the small kingdom of Bhutan , a new wealth indicator has now become the country’s gold standard: Gross National Happiness.

SPACES TO PROTECT 52’ & 90’ The film takes us to Hamburg, Berlin, Paris, Istanbul, London, Toulouse, Lyon and other cities, and recounts how towns and cities are being constructed and transformed, and what space is being left in them for citizens.

SOCIETY

GREAT WALL OF JAPAN (THE) 52’ After the disaster of March 2011, the Japanese authorities decided to build a gigantic 15-meter-high and 500 kilometers long anti tsunami wall, separating the land and the ocean.

ELECTRICITY: THE PRICE TO PAY 52’ & 90’ In under a decade, electricity bills have rocketed by over 20%! How can an increase of this magnitude be justified? And could the price hike have been avoided?

WOMEN FOR THE PLANET 52’ 6 women form part of an increasingly large body of voices that are speaking up to demand an economic and ecological transition that will take on the challenges of the 21st century.

UNBREATHABLE: CITIES ON THE VERGE OF ASPHYXIATION 52’ & 90’ Atmospheric pollution affects 9 out of 10 city dwellers, and kills 7 million people a year. Faced with this growing concern, how can people protect themselves?

MISSING WOMEN 53’ Is Asia becoming a continent without women? A 100 million young girls are said to be “missing” in the world today. Massive female-selective abortions and child murders are practised mainly in Asia.

IRAN SHORT OF WATER 52’ For the Islamic Republic, the battle for water has become a national emergency. How has Iran come to sacrifice this resource much more vital than oil?

A WOMAN’S WOMB - THE POLITICS OF REPRODUCTION 52’ & 90’ In Peru, in the space of 5 years, over 300,000 women and nearly 30,000 men were sterilised by force by Alberto Fujimori’s government.

ALMA’S TEARS 52’ The deeply moving testimony of a now-repentant woman, who was a former member of one of Guatemala’s worst gangs.

ENVIRONMENT

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THE MYSTERY OF THE DISAPPEARING BEES 52’ & 90’ An investigation into a worldwide ecological disaster that could endanger the whole of humanity.

ALLERGY: THE TOXIC BURDEN 52’ & 73’ Can the phenomenon of today’s allergy explosion be rationally explained? An uncompromising investigation to understand it, by highlighting the true environmental causes and the protection strategies.

ARE THE SKIES TOO CROWDED ? 43’ & 52’ The European Union plans to double the numbers of aircrafts by 2020. Can the earth handle a growing number of carbon dioxide-emitting planes in the upper atmospheric strata forever?

GOOD OLD GROWTH! 90’ In the film, these concrete experiences alternate between the words of experts, echoing each other, and together outlining new ways to set into motion the vital transition. GREENPEACE AWARD 2015.

E-WASTE TRAGEDY (THE) 52’ & 86’ The illegal recycling of electronics is a toxic business on a global scale. Why do three quarters of Europe’s electronic waste disappear from the officiel recycling system ? GOLDEN AWARD - PRIX ITALIA 2015.

METHANE, DREAM OR NIGHTMARE? 81’ & 2x45’ From the Arctic Ocean to the ocean depths of Japan, from the frozen lands of Siberia to the research lab, what impact will this greenhouse gas have on our climate?

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO MONSANTO 55’ & 109’ An investigation into the Saint Louis giant and the recent developments it has made in biotechnology and seed control.

OUR DAILY POISON 110’ Pesticides, Additives, Food Colouring And Packaging. A topic concerning each and every one of us that looks into what we eat.

CROPS OF THE FUTURE 96’ Marie-Monique Robin offers us the third chapter of her trilogy, an encouraging study of agroecology and the solutions to our planet’s food crisis. How to feed the world in 2050?

PARTICLES AND PEOPLE 52’ In Japan, in the region of Fukushima, citizens and scientists are working together to try to understand the invisible contamination that threatens their lives and haunts their minds.

DECOMMISSIONING NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS: MISSION IMPOSSIBLE ? 52’ Can we dismantle our nuclear power plants? An alarming report on the dangers of deconstructing nuclear stations.

FORT MCMONEY-VOTE JIM ROGERS 52’ A plunge into Fort McMurray, Canada. Located in the heart of the Boreal Forest, the city of Fort McMurray holds the world’s largest oil sand reserves.