Award of "THE BEST MOUNTAIN SPORTS FILMS" in BANFF FESTIVAL 2023 !!! FR: Sauter du haut de Nameless Tower au Pakistan (6200m) après avoir gravi la voie Eternel Flame, c’est combiner l’ascension d’une des plus belles voies d’escalade du monde avec l’ouverture…
‚Appropriation takes you on a weird ride‘ investigates the strange German enthusiasm for Native Americans in relation to contemporary racism and its deep colonial roots. This fascination, especially with regard to the construction of a german identity, has a rather frightening than impressive…
A group of scientists and researchers search for Franklin's Bumblebee, a rare bumblebee last seen in 2006.
Philippe Hosiasson, peintre ukrainien du XXème siècle, risque d’être oublié par l’Histoire de l’art. Pourtant, son talent pour l’abstraction, son exposition aux côtés de Soulages à la galerie Kootz à New York et ses relations…
Dans une mine de Ouagadougou, au Burkina Faso, tout le monde, des enfants aux personnes âgées, travaille à l’extraction, au transport et à la fragmentation du granit en dehors de toute organisation d’entreprise et dans le cadre des règles établies…
Le barrage El Mansour Eddhabi, construit en 1972 par le gouvernement marocain, menace le mode de vie des éleveurs nomades. Le contrôle de l’eau est problématique : cette ressource doit-elle être rationalisée au profit du développement de la ville ou doit-on…
Janet is 36 and a resident in a hostel for mentally handicapped adults. She is a Jehovah's Witness, having joined with her mother some years previously. She and Stephen would like to marry, but recieve little support. Her mother doesn't take the idea seriously, the hostel staff humour her,…
Energy Carol A cartoon about spirits: the spirits of energy past, present and future. Future energy takes Ebenezer on a tour of tomorrow's world. He comes back a shaken man. "There's still time," says Future Energy, "if you're willing to change". "I'll…
Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan poet, describes what it feels like to live in exile in Argentina, his works banned and his associates murdered by authorities. His sensitivty and humour make it a moving experience. At this time, Argentina was more liberal than Uruguay but facing terrible economic problems…
Warns the general public and workers about the dangers of asbestos and discusses many of the issues involved in deal with it. In particular, the programme reveals why the millions of tons of asbestos installed in our system-built housing, schools and hospitals in the sixties and seventies will continue…
Hundreds of black South Africans are known to have died from diseases caused by working with asbestos. Although blue asbestos is banned in England because it causes cancer and other diseases, it is still being mined and processed in South Africa, with very few precautions, and people actually make bricks…
Shows the mining of asbestos in Australia, where large companies take advantage of the lack of safety regulations to exploit mainly Aboriginal workers. Now the dangers of cancer caused by asbestos are well known, governments and multi-national companies should be taking action, but what happens is that…
