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21 Nov 2013

Journey through an Invisible War

A film by Paul Moreira

There is an invisible war going on in the West Bank. Theocratic Israeli settlers are waging a daily war on their Palestinian neighbors. They harass them, attack their houses, destroy their olive trees, move their livestock. They do all they can to turn their life into a nightmare. How come all these ever more numerous videos had no echo in traditional media? This investigation reveals what’s...

28 Oct 2013

Drones: Obama’s dirty war?

A film by Benoit Bringer and Jean-Baptiste Renaud

If you want to know how a leading a war can be compatible with a Nobel Peace Prize, ask President Obama. According to the US government, unmanned drones are the perfect weapon to pursue the “War on Terror”. Of surgical precision and preventing risk to American life, drones are the way to make it “clean”. Under the Obama administration, the use of drone strikes has exploded. Faced with...

9 Oct 2013

Mossad: Killers of the State

A film by Laurent Richard and Jean-Baptiste Renaud

Mossad’s Kidon unit has none but one objective: to kill the enemies of Israel. Active all over the world, this unit of 50 elite agents obeys only one man: the Israeli Prime Minister. What are their assassination techniques? How do they choose their targets? How do they operate in Iran, Jordan and Europe? Did they poison Yasser Arafat? And what are the diplomatic consequences of their...

21 Sep 2013

Underhand Tactics: Food Globalisation

A film by Wandrille Lanos

Who’s paying the real price for the cheap food in our supermarkets? What is the social cost of discount food? We investigate the conditions under which some of our common staples - bananas, vegetables and fish - are produced. In Italy - at the heart of democratic and "human right compliant" European Union - illegal workers from sub-Saharan Africa live in appalling conditions, working long...

15 Sep 2013

Underhand Tactics: Football Business

A film by Martin Boudot

Worldwide, most popular football is an annual 400 billion euro industry. The “mercato” trades multi-million euro footballers’ transfers between famous clubs. But within these overhyped sports news, much more discreet people play a decisive and very lucrative role: footballers’ agents. This investigation reveals the hidden mechanisms of this huge market. The role of these influent...

11 Jun 2013

Underhand Tactics: The Untaxables

A film by Edouard Perrin

Companies like Apple, Google and Starbucks have been heavily criticized for seemingly mastering the art of tax dodging. They make billions in profits and pay virtually nothing back to the state. How do they do it? Why did it take so long for politicians to start addressing the issue? After months of investigation, we uncovered confidential documents revealing how Amazon avoids paying tax....

26 May 2013

Fraud in the vineyards

A film by Jean-Louis Perez

This documentary brings the French wine industry into focus. This emblematic product brought France 10 billion euros of export revenue in 2012 alone. But wine producers are now facing a strong competition from "new world" wines as well as their European neighbours. As their competitors gain an ever larger market share, some producers are tempted to break the rules. In the Languedoc region in the...

14 May 2013

A counter-history of Internet

A documentary written by Julien Goetz & Jean-Marc Manach, directed by Sylvain Bergère

A look back at the emergence of Internet freedom defence movements that have sprung up in reaction to growing regulation of the Web by governments and multinationals. Internet was created by hippies while being funded by the military! This improbable culture shock gave birth to an area of freedom that was impossible to censor or control. Yet for years, that is precisely what a certain number of...

17 Apr 2013

Big tobacco, young targets

A film by Paul Moreira, with Pedro Brito Da Fonseca

  In the 21st century, tobacco will continue to kill 8 million people each year. More than the dead of all the wars, nuclear attacks and the deadliest diseases malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS, put together. To reach such a commercial success, tobacco companies have used every trick in the book to sell their deadly product; blatant or illegal, furtive or camouflaged advertising,...

8 Mar 2013

Alyaa: The naked revolutionary

A film written by Patrick Vallélian and Sid Ahmed Hammouche, directed by Pierre Toury

Alyaa Elmahdy, a 20-year-old Egyptian woman, faces death threats in her country. She had no other choice but to flee. She found refuge in Sweden. Her crime? Posing naked on her blog to denounce the hypocrisy surrounding women’s bodies in the Arab world. The photography is neither pornography nor eroticism. But a militant act. The act of a woman who is in charge of her sexuality in a sexist...

1 Jan 2013

China’s Dissident Artists

An investigation by Martin Boudot and Leona Liu
on an original idea of Paul Moreira

In China, a handful of artists are standing up to the regime, openly criticizing the government and finding ways around censorship to raise public awareness. In a country where the press is state-controlled, they have become the voice of free speech. And a headache for the Chinese government. But their subversive actions can be dangerous. In the past two years, nearly 200 dissident artists...

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