Rio + 20 : a man and the crabs [in development]

A documentary directed by Ze Peixoto.

This doc­u­men­tary is not avil­i­able in English

Piedras [in development]

A documentary directed by Adrien Lecouturier.

This doc­u­men­tary is not avil­i­able in English

Making a Killing [in developement]

A documentary directed by Yves Billon.

From Man­i­fest Des­tiny to Afghanistan, the film his­tor­i­cally explores the sym­bi­otic rela­tion­ship between the rise of Amer­i­can cap­i­tal­ism and the rise of America’s global mil­i­tary pres­ence. Many of the repeated uses of Amer­i­can mil­i­tary force in open­ing up and secur­ing for­eign ter­ri­to­ries for Amer­i­can cap­i­tal­ists and entre­pre­neurs are recalled.

Night Flight, Daily Route [in development]

A documentary directed by Marc Mopty.

This doc­u­men­tary is not avil­i­able in English

Where is Evaristo? [in developpement]

A documentary directed by Ronan Julou, Sébastien Saugues.

Ama­zon Indi­ans often appear to us as “time­less”, as vic­tims sac­ri­ficed on the altar of moder­nity. This is a cliché that is being chal­lenged by the unique career of the Jivaro Indian, the his­toric leader of the Amerindian protest move­ment: Evaristo Nugkuag.

Today Ama­zo­nia has become the world sym­bol of a threat­ened envi­ron­men­tal and cul­tural diver­sity. On this sub­ject, the media –and thus, the gen­eral pub­lic– show great pes­simism: the dis­ap­pear­ance of Amerindian peo­ples as well as the extinc­tion of a lot of nat­ural species appears to be just as unfor­tu­nate and unavoid­able. The events that occurred recently in Peru­vian Ama­zo­nia seem to con­firm, even to the point of car­i­ca­ture, the tragic lot of these indige­nous peo­ples: in 2009, the gov­ern­ment passed a series of gov­ern­ment decrees allow­ing Ama­zon­ian lands to be sold on a very large scale. Indian resis­tance, embod­ied by the Jivaro peo­ple, was crushed in blood. The Peru­vian and inter­na­tional media cov­ered this bloody con­flict, some con­fin­ing them­selves to pre­sent­ing the Amerindi­ans as “the time­less vic­tims of glob­al­iza­tion”, while oth­ers, blinded by the rep­u­ta­tion of these Jivaros, for­mer  head shrinkers,  pre­ferred to  insist on the sup­posed ‘return to their war­riors’ instinct’.

An arti­cle pub­lished in ‘El Com­er­cio’, the main Peru­vian daily, jarred in this cli­mate of gen­eral incom­pre­hen­sion. Writ­ten by a Peru­vian lawyer, Vir­ginia Bus­ta­mante, the arti­cle revealed the exis­tence of a very struc­tured move­ment uni­fy­ing all the peo­ples of the Ama­zon Basin that for decades had been char­ac­ter­ized by their paci­fism. Above all, this arti­cle reminded us of the out­stand­ing career of a Jivaro Indian, Evaristo Nugkuag, founder and his­tor­i­cal leader of the move­ment whose absence in these tragic cir­cum­stances was so dis­qui­et­ing that in the head­line the lawyer launched an appeal: “Where’s Evaristo?”

Les Plein des Energies

A documentary directed by Catherine Tissier, Moira Chappedelaine-Vautier, Robert Genoud.

This doc­u­men­tary is not avail­able in English

Kapitan Diwalwal: In the city of cursed gold

A documentary directed by Philippe Couture.

Lost in the moun­tains of Min­danao, the rebel­lious province of the South Philip­pines, DIWALWAL is, accord­ing to the highly respected Black­smith Insti­tute, one the top twenty actual worst eco­log­i­cal dis­as­ters of the planet.

On top of a moun­tain sur­rounded by a jun­gle infested by tree active guer­ril­las, two Mus­lims and one com­mu­nist, Franco Tito is fight­ing alone with his colt 45, local politi­cians and multinationals.

What seems to be at first a local polit­i­cal con­flict hap­pen to be a social, eco­nom­i­cal and san­i­tary inter­na­tional emer­gency which’s con­se­quences are accu­mu­lat­ing in the envi­ron­ment and oceans for even­tu­ally creep­ing back, through the food chain, in everybody’s plate everywhere.

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Ceuta, sweet prison

A documentary directed by Jonathan Millet, Loïc H. Rechi.

Ceuta, a Span­ish enclave located at the north of Morocco, is sep­a­rated from the Old Con­ti­nent by a wall put up by means of sub­ven­tions of mil­lions of Euros com­ing from the Euro­pean Union. This enor­mous yet unknown bor­der is meant to stop the migrants from Africa and Asia to arrive to the dreamed El Dorado of the North.

Babaji

A documentary directed by Gildas Billet.

Yogi Shra­van Nath is a Nath-Yogi, one of those Shiv­aist sad­hus who undergo tantric stud­ies from their sect, Gorak­nath. I met this Yogi in Omkaresh­war, and he accepted to ini­ti­ate me and to take me as a dis­ci­ple in order for me to fol­low him to the famous Kumbha-mela, an enor­mous gath­er­ing of ascetics that come from every cor­ner of India. This pil­grim­age, which takes place every 12 years and is a very impor­tant part of the life of a sadhu, is our start­ing point for an extra­or­di­nary experience.

We will fol­low our guru in his encounter with the ascetics that are con­sid­ered saints. Through dif­fer­ent places and events in the North of India, we will dive in the uni­verse of mys­tics to find out if their only aim is to access the mokhsa, which is the final release, and what are the means of reach­ing it.

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