Cargo Culte

Partner : CNC (Centre National du Cinéma et de l'image animée)
Directed by Gwenlaouen LE GOUIL, Régis CROIZER, Amandine STELLETA, Gaël MOCAER

In the footsteps of the great naturalists of the 19th century, hundreds of scientists from around the world have explored during three months the slopes of Mount Wilhelm in Papua New Guinea in...

Directed by David THOMSON, Gwenlaouen LE GOUIL, Hamdi TLILI, Nicolas BAUDRY D'ASSON

Since the revolution, the Salafi-jihadist movement is attracting more and more people in Tunisia. Today, tens of thousands of young people claim to belong to Ansar al Sharia (supporters of Sharia)...

Partner : CNC (Centre National du Cinéma et de l'image animée)
Directed by Gwenlaouen LE GOUIL, Lucie PEYTERMANN, Jean-Laurent BODINIER, Eric CHEVALIER

It's a revolution in Pakistan. This Islamic Republic which regularly flouts human rights comes only now to recognize the rights of the "Hijra". They represent more than 800 000 eunuchs,...

Directed by Jean-Laurent BODINIER, Régis CROIZER, Michel PIGNARD

 

Mike Horn is a crazy explorer, a sailor of the extreme, one of the last adventurers in the world.  He reached the North Pole by swiming and skiing. He realized a world tour by following Equator...

Directed by Jean-Laurent BODINIER, Gwenlaouen LE GOUIL, Sophie BOUILLON, Michel PIGNARD

Kent - 33 years old - is a child of Cap Town. In love with his city, he wants us to discover it by skateboard which is his favorite form of transport.
Every weekends, he and his friends find...

Directed by Gwenlaouen LE GOUIL, Sophie BOUILLON, Michel PIGNARD 

Threatened, the African penguin seems to be destined to disappear. But, this is not counting on the determination of a young French researcher who decided to save the species.

Indeed, South Africa...

Directed by Jean-Laurent BODINIER, Mathieu DESPIAU, Nicolas BAUDRY D’ASSON

There was a time when Angola's prison, in Louisiana, was one of the most violent in the country ...
But it was before that an idea disrupts the daily life of this State Penitentiary.
Every Sunday in...

Directed by Jean-Laurent BODINIER, Mathieu DESPIAU, Michel PIGNARD

October 8th, 2012, they come from all over the United States and they won't miss it for the world. They are 2000 men and women got together for a historic rendez-vous, bloody, explosive and dusty.

Directed by Jean-Laurent BODINIER, Cindy BARNES

This is probably the only city in the world to worship a bat and make it the emblem of the city. A giant sculpture sits at the entrance of the Congress Avenue Bridge. In 1980, Austin's city has...

Partner : CNC (Centre National du Cinéma et de l'image animée)
Directed by Brice LAMBERT, Guillaume CLERE 

An interactive immersion inside the gothic movement
Inspired by the wedocumentary "I Goth My World" :
http://igothmyworld.arte.tv/fr/

The gothic subculture, a world wide movement, celebrates his...

Directed by Zoé DE BUSSIERRE, Arnaud KEHON, Florence LOZACH

 

Amid rows of women weaving silk sons as thin as baby's hair, a Japonese wanders and stops to admire a work or give advice.

His name is  M. Morimoto. He arrived in Cambodia in the 80s for only...

Directed by Zoé DE BUSSIERRE, Arnaud KEHON, Florence LOZACH

Every weekend, the Kun Khmer or Cambodian kick boxing, ignites the country. Fights are broadcasted live on television and followed by millions of Cambodians and as much bettors.

The fighter who...

Directed by Zoé DE BUSSIERRE, Arnaud KEHON, Florence LOZACH

 

People living in remote villages in nothern Cambodia have recovered a social life thanks to the norry. 

The norry is an improvised train capable of travelling 50 kilometers per day and...

Directed by Jean-Laurent BODINIER, Maxime LIOGIER, Eric CHEVALIER 

 

Have you ever heard of Hemchinlai people? They have one foot in the Black Sea and the head in the Kashkari mountains. The rumor says they have long noses, they speak loudly, they are happy. The...

 Directed by Jean-Laurent BODINIER, Maxime LIOGIER, Eric CHEVALIER

 

Throughout history, Mydiat gained its title as the Money capital. A case of ochre gave them a fortune of treasure ... A refuge for the community of jewelers. The knowledge of shaping silver...

Directed by Jean-Laurent BODINIER, Maxime LIOGIER, Eric CHEVALIER 

 

In a Turkish village in the XXI Century, imagine you’re in the Ancient Thrace around the year 1350. Admist all the young fighters, soldiers of the Sultan Suleyman Pasha, stands 12 year old...

Partner : CNC (Centre National du Cinéma et de l'image animée)
Directed by Régis CROIZER, Gwen LE GOUIL, Arnaud KEHON

In the Heart of the Karoo desert in South Africa, a young French man is fighting to save the cheetahs from disparition. Damien Vergnaud already saved a couple of them and dreams of their freedom....

Directed by Zoé DE BUSSIERRE, Jean-Laurent BODINIER

 

Sylvia and David, Jacques and Isabelle, are couples. They are both living a love idyll, but there's a dark spot on the board. The baby the 2 couples are dreaming of does not come. Their last...

Directed by Véronique VEBER, Florence LOZACH, Jorge BERROA

They are between 20 and 30 years old and have only known Castro at the state's power. Fidel of course, for six years, and his brother, Raul Castro. Our team went to meet these young Cubans who try...

Directed by Jean-Laurent BODINIER, Régis CROIZER, Cindy BARNES, Gwen LE GOUIL

 

The old Sea Museum in Biarritz, has received a huge makeover.

The spotlights are focused on the pharaonic work undertaken by the region : EUR 20 million to transform this old museum in a...

Directed by Regis CROIZER, Arnaud KEHON, Zoé De BUSSIERE, Marc DE LANGENHAGEN, Cindy BARNES, Marc WOUDENBERG

 

With its 300 winter sport resorts, France has the most extensive network of ski area in the world.

In snowboard, skis, or snowshoes, each winter, hundreds of thousands of people pounce on ski...

Directed by Jean-laurent BODINIER, Régis CROIZER, Gwen LE GOUIL, Michel PIGNARD

 

A helicopter on standby 7 days a week…. A coast swept by powerful currents ... 35 000 tourists and a beach classified as dangerous.

That sums up the scenario proposed by the rescuers of the...

Directed by Zoé De BUSSIERE, Gwen LE GOUIL, Nicolas BAUDRY D'ASSON

 

Darwin, a city of 120,000 inhabitants in northern Australia, has two characteristics; having the most storms and having the highest rate of saltwater crocodiles in the world.

Yet for the last...

Directed by Gwen LE GOUIL, Jean - Laurent BODINIER

 

After experiencing all the best surf spots on the planet like Hawaii, Bali and California. They finally chose Britain as their home port. Surfing together since childhood Ronan Chatain- former...

Selected at the International Festival FIGRA 2012

Directed by Pierre MONEGIER, Dominique MAROTEL, Arnaud KEHON

 

Northeast India is one of the best hidden secrets of Indian growth. Tens of thousands of children are working in conditions near of slavery in coal mines. They are between 9 and 15 years-old...

Directed by Jean-Laurent Bodinier, Max Liogier, Michel Pignard

 

Yellowknife is a city at the end of the world, a rallying point for adventurers who came to make their fortune in gold or diamonds. This trip is the end for some, but it was the promise of a...

Partners :centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)

Directed by Regis CROIZER, Arnaud KÉHON, Cindy BARNES, Ema

 

Each year, over 5 million French people choose the TGV (Great Speed Train) to go on vacation. These days, train stations are over populated in chaos. For the people who work there, the tension...

Directed by Jean-Laurent BODINIER, Stephane LOPEZ, Michel PIGNARD

 

The Golden Gate bridge, Alcatraz Prison plus the viewsit offers on the city is what makes San Francisco Bay legendary.

For over a 100 years, members of two historic clubs swim across the Bay...

Directed by Jean-laurent BODINIER, Stephane LOPEZ, Michel PIGNARD

 

In the aerostatic’s temple of Albuquerque (New Mexico), during ten days of every year more than 600 balloons of all colours and shapes fly into the sky at the same time. This is the largest...

Directed by Jean-laurent BODINIER, Stephane LOPEZ, Michel PIGNARD

 

Broadcasted on live televion, the grand final of the Rodeo Waco championship is not to be missed. Attracting a massive audience the tension runs high.

Ivan is the only French competitor to...

Selected at the Festival International de Films "Pêcheurs du Monde" 2012

Directed by Gwen LE GOUIL, Sophie BOUILLON, Nicolas BAUDRY D'ASSON

 

At the beginning of the 2000s, a new drug appeared in the shanty town of Cape Town, the tik : a cheap methamphetamine sold in crystal form. This extremely powerful stimulant can be smoked as...

Directed by Eventhia LACHAUD, Gwen LE GOUIL, Michel PIGNARD

Is repression the only solution to fight drugs ? This is doubtful. We would rather sometimes  look at what happens to our neighbors.

Here is the case of Portugal, considered by the United...

Directed by Gwen LE GOUIL, Zoe DE BUSSIERRE, Jean-Laurent BODINIER

 

It was two weeks before Khadafi’s fall... The opposition dissidents of Khadafi just came to take over the oil terminal at Ras Lanouf. It was time for joy and this « coalescing » army hoped to...

Directed by Emanuele MARZARI, Regis CROIZER, Eric CHEVALIER

 

Lampedusa, the southernmost italian island, located 113 km off the coast of Tunisia.

As soon as the Ben Ali regime fell, a wave of illegal immigration swept the outpost of Europe. Within...

Selected at the International Festival FIGRA 2012

Directed by Zoe DE BUSSIERRE, Regis CROIZER and Nicolas BAUDRY D'ASSON

 

While the South African leader's death is becoming a sadly evident, the country prepares to host the largest funeral in decades. Hundreds of thousands, even millions of people could make the...

Directed by  Zoé DE BUSSIERE, Marie-Emilie CATIER, Nicolas BAUDRY D'ASSON

 

The case unleashed the fury of the Italian media.

On August 26, Sarah Scazzi, a 15 year old doll faced girl disappears. Her grieving familly squatting the media. On « Coup de Theatre »...

Partner : centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)

Directed by Francis CARDONA, Julien FOUCHET, Zoe DE BUSSIERRE and Nicolas BAILLARGEOT

 

They all share the same trauma, from the hand of a husband, a neighbor or a rejected lover who stole their faces with a jet of acid over jealousy or rejection. A tragedy that affects thousands...

Directed by Reza NOURMAMODE, Patrick VANIER, Marie DROUET

 

Arriving with the Jesuits in the seventeenth century, baroque music has found fertile ground in Bolivia. The missionaries, fans of Vivaldi, Bach and Rameau, transmitted the art to Amazonian...

Directed by Guillaume COUDERC, David LEMARCHAND, Hoan N’GUYEN MANH, Gwen LE GOUIL, Michel PIGNARD

 

Grey of Gabon, Barbary apes or boa constrictors, nearly 2 million households are home to an exotic pet.

But the "NAC" rarely stay with their owners. Many are abandoned as soon as they...

Directed by Jean-Laurent BODINIER, Max LIOGIER, Michel PIGNARD

 

Anthony Folio is the Snow King.

Each year, this retired Canadian carves out of the Slave Lake, a palace of ice. A technical achievement realized with a handful of neighbors. All residents...

Directed by Jean-Laurent BODINIER, Max LIOGIER, Michel PIGNARD

 

Paradoxically, it is in the depth of winter, in the North-Western territories that the activity is reaching its full swing. Lakes and rivers becoming real highways after the invention of "ice...

Directed by Jean-Laurent BODINIER, Max LIOGIER, Michel PIGNARD

 

Suddenly the dark and starry sky became bright, fluorescent and pastel.

James Bugsley assures that in Yellowknife, Canada, the Northern Lights are most spectacular. In winter, the amateur...

Directed by Zoe De BUSSIERE, Gwen Le GOUIL, Xavier PUYPEROUX

At the beginning of April 2010, South Africa lost one of the main figures to his troubled past, Eugene Terre Blanche.With him, the world could believe that racist ideology would disappear. His...

Directed by Jo Grall, Virginia Cuore, John  Pitiau

 

Fighting against the Burmese junta for years, the Shan are one of the major armed ethnic groups opposed to the Rangoon government.

Their headquarters are located in one of the summits of the...

Directed by Zoe De BUSSIERE, Gwen Le GOUIL, Vincent GAUBERT

 

Since the end of apartheid in 1991, South Africa has set up the "Black Economic Empowerment", a positive discrimination in favor of blacks. Now, many of them are among the middle and upper...

Directed by Fabrice LAUNAY, Carole ISOUX, Marie DROUET

 

For nearly two months, the red shirts blocked Bangkok city center to ensure that there will be a new election. On the 10th of April, the army responded with fire. The consequences were 26...

Partner : centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)

Directed by Zoe DE BUSSIERRE, Maxime LIOGIER, Jean-Laurent BODINIER

 

An aria of Bizet escapes from an old hangar in a popular district of Kinshasa. The scene is surreal; 220 amateur musicians, between 2 and 55 years old. Preforming night after night, despite...

Directed by Zoé De BUSSIERE, Jean-Laurent BODINIER, Gwen Le GOUIL

 

Tired of seeing minors at increasingly younger ages integrating into criminal gangs? The Paris prosecutor's office decided to set up a new process, parental mandatory training. These are...

Directed by Anne POIRET, Gwen Le GOUIL, Vincent GAUBERT

 

During the war, the actors of Baghdad never stopped believing in the preforming art, pursuing their education whatever the cost. Today, they have new hopes to spend their lives as fulltime...

Directed by  Anne POIRET, Gwen Le GOUIL, Eric CHEVALIER

 

The reconstruction of Iraq is a huge market, in which a handful of French companies are contending. One of them - a family company from Cantal - won the contract to build a bridge in Sadr...

 

Directed by Gwen Le GOUIL et Jean-Laurent BODINIER

 

"Eloisa cartons" is located in a former pizzeria in the city's most notorious Buenos Aires. This is a special form of publishing born in 2008. All items that they sell - novels, poetry, plays...

Directed by Gwen LE GOUIL, Jean-Laurent BODINIER

 

Clinging to their hostile mountains, without electricity or wood-free, Kolla Indians rediscovering the virtues of Tata Inti, the sun god of their ancestors, the Incas. His energy is...

Directed by Jean-Laurent BODINIER, Gwen LE GOUIL

 

For the South African Venda tribe, the 20,000 year old Lake Fundudzi is the cause of the world. But this sacred place has almost disappeared, choked with sediment due to uncontrolled...

Directed by Jean-Laurent BODINIER, Gwen Le GOUIL

 

This is a small town inhabited exclusively by Afrikaners.No Black or Metis are allowed to reside there. With 600 inhabitants, Orania has its own currency and flag. As required by the South...

Directed by Gwen LE GOUIL, Jean-Laurent BODINIER

 

Just across the border, Musina a former mining town in South Africa has become a vast supermarket for Zimbabwean traders. Flour, oil, sugar, gasoline ... they find food inaccessible or simply...

Directed by Gwen LE GOUIL et Jean-Laurent BODINIER

 

While the Pakistani army dislodge the Taliban from the Swat Valley, the jihadists replicate on the humanitarian front. Armed with pots and ladles, activists of the charity "Falah-e-Insaniat"...

Directed by Jean-Laurent BODINIER, Gwen LE GOUIL, Julien FOUCHET, Vincent BUCHY

 

In 2001, Julie and her brother took over the plant cutting in Haute-Savoie family as they couldn’t find enough workers. But during the chop of the last Christmas tree, they had to announce...

Directed by Gwen LE GOUIL, Jean-Laurent BODINIER

 

Since they are no longer "protected" by apartheid, the unskilled whites are the new pariahs of South Africa. With the policy of affirmative action, jobs and housing reserved for them are now to...

Directed by Gwen LE GOUIL, Julien FOUCHET, Jerome BODENES

 

Initially, it was a simple dispute about a child’s care. Six years later, on the floor of Caen, a suspected kidnapping  project. The father would have paid money to the Legionaries of...

Directed by Fabrice LAUNAY, Gwen LE GOUIL, Michel PIGNARD

 

After twenty-six years of war, the Sri Lankan government launched the final assault against the LTTE, now they are retreating behind a handkerchief. Caught in the middle, 200,000 civilians live...

Directed by Gwen LE GOUIL, Jean-Laurent BODINIER

 

Despite 40,000 infected people and morgues saturated with dead bodies, no one dares ask the President of Zimbabwe, the dictator denies the cholera epidemic. In power for almost thirty years,...

Partner : centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)

Directed by Anne POIRET, Stephane LOPEZ, Vincent GAUBERT

 

It is an oasis of silence and peace in the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict ... The Hattie Friedland School in West Jerusalem home to over a hundred deaf students - Jews, Christians...

Directed by Gwen LE GOUIL, Anne VIGNA, Jean-Laurent BODINIER

 

Fifteen daily murders, four hundred police officers killed in a year and a half ... In northern Mexico, drug cartels are waging a battle without a thank you for the traffic control to the...

Directed by Gwen LE GOUIL

 

Despite the successes of the army against the Taliban, the rise of Islamism in Pakistan continues. The Jamaat-e-Islami - the country's oldest party, ostensibly to implement the introduction...

Directed by Jean-Laurent BODINIER, Stéphane LOPEZ, Michel PIGNARD

 

Parked and isolated, the Lakota Sioux have gradually sunk into misery. At Pine Ridge, unemployment affects 85% of the population, the suicide rate is three times the national average and life...

Directed by Anne POIRET Stéphane LOPEZ, Nicolas BAILLARGEOT, Jerome BODENES

 

Due to the shortage of doctors in the Hexagon, a lucrative trade is emerging. Specialised agencies are being introduced to mediate the shortage, targeting hospital fortunes. Their headhunters...

Directed by Gwen LE GOUIL, Jean-Laurent BODINIER

 

Every day, buses are unloading U.S. shipments of illegal border crossers in Tijuana. Many of these "prisoners" fail in the "Tierra de nadie", the "Earth people", a huge empty lot wedged...

Directed by Jean-Laurent BODINIER, Gwen LE GOUIL, Anne VIGNA

 

The fight against obesity has become a priority in Mexico: 45 million citizens are concerned. Prevention programs are held in schools, but the fight also means police offering a reward of...

Directed by Gwen LE GOUIL, Jean-Laurent BODINIER

 

This is an unprecedented international investigation that led to the arrest of Vico, a 32 year old Canadian charged with pedophilia. Hundreds of photos show abuse of young Asian children. We...

Directed by Gwen LE GOUIL, Jean-Laurent BODINIER

 

Over the resumption of violence and civil war, hundreds of thousands of Somali civilians continue to flee the capital. Some crowded into camps, others try the perilous crossing of the Gulf of...

Directed by Gwen LE GOUIL, Yuri MALDAVSKI, Christophe ROQUE

 

They are on alert 24/7, 365 days a year and have a swarm of helicopters and ships to intervene in the Ushant traffic separation scheme, the largest French maritime highway. Report alongside the...

Directed by Gwen LE GOUIL, Jean-Laurent BODINIER

 

Burma, Fall 2007. The junta suppressed in blood, the revolt initiated by monks requires a new climate of terreur. Pourtant from Rangoon to Mandalay, some try to break the wall of silence and...