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At birth, is a girl as likely to become as rich as a boy? Statistics testify to the financial inferiority of women in today's developed societies. Although they are supposed to be autonomous and independent, surveys reveal invisible mechanisms at every stage of their lives, which are reinforced by institutional practices inherited from the past and contribute to their impoverishment.

What is this curse that prevents women from earning as much money as men? From a very early age, little girls are conditioned by the prejudices and preconceptions of the past. They get less pocket money than their brothers, who demand more... An approach that is set to remain different over the years. Girls are better at school, they do better in higher education, but they often end up choosing less lucrative careers. Is their "natural" attraction to nursing professions real or artificial? When they choose "better paid" careers, they come up against the so-called "glass ceiling". Added to this is the "motherhood penalty". Discrimination against women in the workplace is thus relayed into the private life, where unpaid domestic work gradually organizes the impoverishment of women... a long-identified plague that continues to ruin women's lives. In many countries worldwide, institutions sometimes drive the nail in, reinforcing the advantage acquired by men. Awareness is growing, and women are realizing that they must take their financial destiny into their own hands... or else they could lose their independence.

At birth, is a girl as likely to become as rich as a boy? Statistics testify to the financial inferiority of women in today's developed societies. Although they are supposed to be autonomous and independent, surveys reveal invisible mechanisms at every stage of their lives, which are reinforced by institutional practices inherited from the past and contribute to their impoverishment.

What is this curse that prevents women from earning as much money as men? From a very early age, little girls are conditioned by the prejudices and preconceptions of the past. They get less pocket money than their brothers, who demand more... An approach that is set to remain different over the years. Girls are better at school, they do better in higher education, but they often end up choosing less lucrative careers. Is their "natural" attraction to nursing professions real or artificial? When they choose "better paid" careers, they come up against the so-called "glass ceiling". Added to this is the "motherhood penalty". Discrimination against women in the workplace is thus relayed into the private life, where unpaid domestic work gradually organizes the impoverishment of women... a long-identified sea serpent that continues to ruin women's lives. In France, Germany and the U.S., institutions sometimes drive the nail in, reinforcing the advantage acquired by men. Awareness is growing, and women are realizing that they must take their financial destiny into their own hands... or else they could lose their independence.

At birth, is a girl as likely to become as rich as a boy? Statistics testify to the financial inferiority of women in today's developed societies. Although they are supposed to be autonomous and independent, surveys reveal invisible mechanisms at every stage of their lives, which are reinforced by institutional practices inherited from the past and contribute to their impoverishment.

What is this curse that prevents women from earning as much money as men? From a very early age, little girls are conditioned by the prejudices and preconceptions of the past. They get less pocket money than their brothers, who demand more... An approach that is set to remain different over the years. Girls are better at school, they do better in higher education, but they often end up choosing less lucrative careers. Is their "natural" attraction to nursing professions real or artificial? When they choose "better paid" careers, they come up against the so-called "glass ceiling". Added to this is the "motherhood penalty". Discrimination against women in the workplace is thus relayed into the private life, where unpaid domestic work gradually organizes the impoverishment of women... a long-identified sea serpent that continues to ruin women's lives. In France, Germany and the U.S., institutions sometimes drive the nail in, reinforcing the advantage acquired by men. Awareness is growing, and women are realizing that they must take their financial destiny into their own hands... or else they could lose their independence.

From Trump to Bolsonaro, populism has been a method of conquering power. For the first time, this film sheds light on the hackers and people in power orchestrating chaos.

In recent years, populist movements have been mobilizing public opinion and gaining traction thanks to information technology. Donald Trump in the United States; Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil; Viktor Orban in Hungary; Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines, etc... And populists are on the verge of taking power in many other countries.
Populism is above all a method of conquering and retaining power. It is a set of techniques whose main feature is opportunism: they refuse to take sides, neither left nor right. Populists claim their exclusive capacity to represent the “real people” thanks to a more direct relationship with voters; to the detriment of corrupt and discredited elites.
For the first time, this investigative documentary is shedding a light on the ones orchestrating this chaos and their methods. For this disorder has its thinkers who, thanks to trial and error, are developing a kind of “populism manual” on the networks. In the shadow of political figures, these hackers of democracy are the real threat. They are computer scientists, opinion pollsters, specialists in Big Data. And they are the new occult advisors to the political world.
There is an urgent need to understand the phenomenon and examine the tools of resistance that can be mobilized.

The film takes us to Hamburg, Berlin, Paris, Istanbul, London, Toulouse, Lyon and other cities, and recounts how towns and cities are being built and transformed, and what space is being left in them for citizens.

Public spaces, the spaces we live our collective lives in, are becoming privatised and marginalised, and run the risk of disappearing altogether. This investigation examines the excesses of the new tools of urbanism, and explores the citizen, political and artistic reactions that are endeavouring to oppose them, in France and in Europe. 

Albert Londres Prize 2016 in the Audiovisual Press category, this film is a chilling investigation into the invisible weapon of Bashar al-Assad’s regime: the kidnapping, torture and murder of tens of thousands of Syrians. 
 

Images of the first peaceful protests of March 2011 have become a vague, almost fanciful memory. The Syria of 2015 has sunk into civil war and absolute chaos. Chaos caused by the over-mediatised brutality of the self proclaimed Islamic State. Chaos, also and above all, caused by the invisible and little known weapon of Bashar al-Assad’s regime: the kidnapping, torture and murder, since 2011, of tens of thousands of Syrians – up to 200,000 of them, depending on the source.
 
 
Countless disappearances reveal the relentless death machine secretly set up by Damascus: teenagers are rounded up in their schools, protesters are sent in trucks to unknown destinations, and passers-by are arbitrarily arrested. For the first time, families in exile, survivors, but also accomplices of the Alawite regime, lay bare the strategy the Syrian dictatorship uses in order to remain in power at all costs. According to Munir al-Hariri, who served the Assads until November 2012, “the objective is not murder, but to prove the State’s strength and tyranny. The objective is to kill some to teach a lesson to others”. 

2016: Albert Londres Prize 2016 in the Audiovisual Press category (Londres, United-Kingdom)

The deeply moving testimony of a now-repentant woman, who was a former member of one of Guatemala's worst gangs.

Alma is 26 years old. She spent five years in the service of one of Guatemala's most violent gangs. Condemned to death by her former brothers in arms for wanting to leave the "Mara", she narrowly escaped their murder attempt, and is now confined to a wheelchair. She tells the camera the tale of her initiation and the most horrible crimes she was involved in, on behalf of her "clique". A poignant and uncompromising exposure of a female criminal in search of redemption.

2013 : First Prize Interactive Documentary at the World Press Photo Contest (Amsterdam - The Netherlands); Sheffield Innovation Award 2013 - Sheffield Doc/Fest (Sheffield - Great-Britain); Grimme Online Award - Grimme Institut (Marl - Germany). 2012 : IDFA DocLab Award for Digital Documentary Storytelling 2012 (Amsterdam - The Netherlands)