AUTARCIES

AUTARCIES

Director : DAMIEN ARTERO | FULL HD | Duration : 30′ | FR/EN | 2014

‘They’ have chosen to renegotiate the ‘system’. To reinvent the structure and bonds between men. To focus on quality over quantity, to feed on the fruit of their labor, to rebuild a society which respects nature. ‘They’ are men and women who live in ecovillages. They invent their future, shape other lifestyles, and it works. We are a couple traveling on a tandem with our children. We want to learn how these ecovillages function, understand their technics, witness how they deal with daily life. More

THE LORD OF THE ANDES

THE LORD OF THE ANDES

Director : CÉSAR GALINDO | FULL HD | Duration : 60′ | FR | 2014

Inspired by “the aini” (traditional collective work) the Cooperative ”Los Andes” was created in the Peruvian Andes in 2001. The Cooperative was born in the village of Cotarusi. Before the Cooperative started, farmers were never able to get any loans at all. The Cooperative started off with 100 members and has by today increased their membership by 60,000. More

THE SONIC SPLENDOR OF RAJASTHAN

THE SONIC SPLENDOR OF RAJASTHAN

Director : PATRICK KERSALÉ | FULL HD | INDIA | Duration : 26′ | 2013

The traditional musical culture of Rajasthan originally developed in the crux of Hinduism and later, in the shadow of Indo- Muslim, is of a surprisingly rich and rare beauty. Musical instruments and dance poses have not failed to inspire artists when they decorate temples and palaces. More

AKOUNA FARMA, MESSENGER OF THE KINGDOM

AKOUNA FARMA, MESSENGER OF THE KINGDOM

Director : PATRICK KERSALÉ | FULL HD | Duration : 26′ | BURKINA FASO | 2012

Akouna Farma is a traditional singer-songwriter. He lives in the last small kingdom of Burkina Faso: the gan kingdom. Handicapped by his blindness, he did not learn to read or write. Its knowledge, its creation, pass through orality. He moves alone with his harp on long distances through the bush trails to go and liven parties and ceremonies. More

CAMEROON ON THE WAY TO SCHOOL

CAMEROON ON THE WAY TO SCHOOL

Director : MEHDI KAHTANE | FULL HD | Duration : 52′ | 2012

More than 66 million school-aged girls do not attend primary nor secondary school worldwide. In the Briqueterie, a disadvantaged district of Cameroon’s capital city Yaoundé, 52% of them do not attend school. These girls are Haoussa, a community from Northern Cameroon, the same community the terrorist group Boko Haram comes from. Its name means ‘Western education is a sin’. Especially for girls… More

ANGKOR : STILL ALIVE

ANGKOR : STILL ALIVE

Director : PATRICK KERSALÉ | FULL HD | Duration : 52′ | FR | 2011

From India to Bali through Nepal and the historic Indochina, Patrick Kersalé is following the Hinduist and Buddhist expansion. He tracked every living trace of tangible or intangible resurgence from the walls of Angkor, including musical instruments and religious practices for about 15 years. More

NO MAN ICELAND

NO MAN ICELAND

Director : DAMIEN ARTERO | FULL HD | Duration : 52′ | 2011

A wild and uncompromising environment… A fascinating population which mixes discretion or shyness with pride and stubborness… A ride across those baren, savage lands on a bike, with a baby in towe… The dreams and fantasies of the icelandic folk, their fairies, elves and other hidden creature… Lire la suite

YÖRÜK

YÖRÜK

Director : FRANÇOIS BERNARD & MATHIEU VOUZELAUD | FULL HD | Duration : 55′ | 2011

This documentary traces the journey of Francis Bernard, a high school teacher from La Rochelle to Turkey in search of the nomadic people the ‘Yörük’. Francis finds his old friend ‘Esref’ Yörük shepherd himself at the preparing for what will certainly be for him and his family, the last true transhumance, in the rules of Yörük tradition of nomads. More