Auschwitz. The Memory Train

« Why go to Auschwitz?” “To illustrate what we learn at school” “Not to make the same mistakes” “To stand at the grave of Humanity”...
On Sunday 22nd October 2006 , 5.30pm, the Memory Train sets off. On board, 450 pupils from all over France. (...)

Ecovalley

Faces of a pioneering valley. In the Drôme valley, in the Vercors foothills, another world is taking shape. A world where mankind is a stakeholder in nature, where agriculture respects both the land and the farmers, where the economy is at mankind’s service, and not the other way around. (...)

Emergency service for child victims of sex offences

In hospitals, an emergency service is being set up to listen to children who are victims of sex offences. In 1999, the association 'The Child's Voice' opened, in the pediatric unit of a hospital in Béziers, the first medico-legal unit for child victims of sex offences. The idea is to provide (...)

English miners return to coal

His face blackened by coal, Jack Saunders, 19 years old, emerges into the bright daylight after spending 8 hours underground. We aren’t in Dickensian England but in the 21st century, where the coal industry is in full revival.

Eva Lanxmeer - Green District

For the past 15 years, Eva-Lanxmeer has been a model of a city in full transition. This eco-district was built from the end of the 1990s on in the town of Culembourg in the Netherlands and houses 1000 inhabitants in a quiet and green setting. Eco-houses with solar panels, shared gardens, an urban (...)

Families rejected from state housing

French families who have been expelled from HLM (French state housing blocks) survive in humble dwellings on the edge of cities, without electricity or running water. To ensure a decent life for their children, the parents do as many odd jobs as they can. Their priority: to preserve the family unit (...)

Irak , Afghanistan: Hiring Temp Workers for War in the Former Yugoslavia

Pristina, April 7, 2007. Next to the Victory Hotel – surmounted by a Statue of Liberty in tribute to the liberation of Kosovo by the US Army – every day, thirty or so Kosovars line up at the recruiting office of Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR).

L'eau source de vie ou source de profit ?

Le ballon d'eau est une technique peu coûteuse et écologique pour transporter l'eau potable. Les Turcs sont actuellement les seuls au monde à l'utiliser pour l'exportation de leurs ressources en eau vers Chypre. En parallèle, ils développent d'autres grands projets d'exportation d'eau en vrac (...)

Océaniques Anonymes

Avec Franck Cammas et son équipage à bord de Groupama 3.
Course en équipage autour du monde avec étapes, la Volvo Ocean Race, anciennement appelée Whitbread, est partie d'Alicante (Espagne) le 5 novembre 2011 pour sa onzième édition. Pendant (...)

Royal de Luxe à Berlin

Berlin a organisé de nombreux événements tout au long de l'année 2009 en commémoration des 20 ans de la  chute du mur. En octobre c'est la compagnie Royale de Luxe qui a pris possession des rues de Berlin avec ses Géants pour raconter, de manière (...)

The Netherlands settle on the water

Particularly vulnerable at risks linked to the water, the Netherlands begin anticipating climatic changes. Rather than to fight her, so much to tame this water with which the Dutchmen maintain ancient links. A revolution of mentalities represented by the appearance of the first floating houses. Meeting (...)

Therapy for pedophiles

At the Fresnes Detention Centre, the psychiatric hospitalisation unit (PHU) offers therapy for pedophiles in an effort to prevent recidivism. In a separate wing, the centre welcomes only those who are motivated to follow the treatment, based on group behavioural therapy. The program includes video (...)

Transhumance, dans les pas de Georges Ramin

In France, there are only a few shepherds left to perpetuate the tradition of true transhumance on foot. Georges Ramin is one of these irreducible people. For 38 years, he has been bringing down his herd of 1,200 ewes each year before the first snowfall. A tradition that allows the sheep to eat (...)