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By promising to colonize the cosmos, the space industry is fueling dangerous illusions that accelerate the destruction of the only habitable planet we know of: Earth. Scientists, climate activists, and Indigenous peoples are speaking out against this new vision of space exploration, and calling for space to remain the shared domain of all humanity. What are the consequences of this new space conquest? Are we really on the path to becoming a multi-planetary civilization, or is this just a fantasy shaped by our cultural and historical narratives? And if it is all just a lie, who stands to win and who stands to lose?

By the end of the century, humanity will become an interplanetary civilization, with millions living in autonomous colonies on the Moon, Mars, and massive orbiting space stations, while pioneers journey toward distant stars. Once pure science fiction, these ambitions are now promoted by wealthy entrepreneurs, governments, and powerful networks who see space as both humanity’s next frontier and a lucrative solution to Earth’s limited resources. This vision fuels the booming “New Space” industry, driven by dreams of astronomical profits and fears about our planet’s future.
But for a growing number of space professionals, these projects are nothing more than dangerous illusions. Human biology is deeply tied to Earth’s atmosphere, gravity, and magnetic field, while space remains a hostile and deadly environment. Even in the face of climate catastrophe, overpopulation, and resource depletion, Earth is far more hospitable than any other place in the solar system. There is no Planet B, they insist. Instead of chasing fantasies of distant colonization, humanity should focus on making Earth livable again.
Yet in pursuit of these illusions, the New Space industry contributes to its own doomsday narratives by damaging the atmosphere, disrupting astronomy with satellite pollution, and threatening ecosystems and communities near launch sites.
Resistance is growing. Activists, astronomers, and scientists are working to reframe space exploration within a broader cultural, ecological, and scientific context, and to remind us that, ultimately, we are just a tiny speck in the vast universe whose survival depends on caring for the one fragile planet we already call home.
 

Algorithms and data are the new weapons in the war that is being waged between the world's major powers. This film reveals what lies behind TikTok's extrodinary rise. 

For several months, investigations carried out by journalists and information gathered by various intelligence services have shown that TikTok allows the Chinese government to access hundreds of millions of data from American and European users. This data is fundamental when it comes to conducting influence or cognitive wars and can be a real weapon in the event of an armed conflict. A war of narratives is thus being waged: banning TikTok means preserving the liberal order embodied by the United States in the face of the Chinese Communist Party, which would use artificial intelligence to undermine democracies. This emerging doctrine within public opinion, crystallizing around TikTok, is just the tip of the iceberg. Algorithms and data have become strategic assets for governments. Having control over them is essential in an increasingly polarized world.

From the Hawaiian archipelago to Easter Island, from New Caledonia to Wallis and Futuna, and across Polynesia, this documentary sets out to explore the natural treasures of Oceania, which must be protected now more than ever. With spectacular cinematography, it offers an immersive journey to discover a one-of-a-kind natural environment and meet the ocean's protectors.

Since the dawn of time, Oceanians have maintained a sacred bond with the ocean. But every day, global warming, rising sea levels, overfishing and plastic contamination are endangering an entire continent. Regeneration of the wilderness in French Polynesia, waste reduction, protecting the humpback whale, coral salvage and mangrove restoration programs: on the front line of these challenges, the Pacific islands populations are mobilizing and finding solutions by working on a daily basis to help us better understand the ocean, so we can better care for and protect it.

Everyone knows Dracula, but who knows that behind the vampire lies a 15th century Romanian prince? A notoriously bloodthirsty monster who served as a pivot between the Christian West and the Muslim East. To the point of being manipulated? Recent research takes us back to the origins of globalization, in a story that, from France to Italy, from Turkey to Austria and from England all the  way to Romania, echoes our contemporary concerns.

PFAS are forever chemicals found in many everyday items, including Teflon which can be found in non-stick pans. These 'perennial pollutants' are carcinogenic and contaminate the air, drinking water and human organisms around the world. An investigation between Europe and the US highlighting the scale of this disaster and the emergency for collective European action against this global threat. 

It is the PFAS that prevent computers from catching fire when they are running. They form a water film capable of resisting fire in fire-fighting foams. The same ones we find in the ultra-resistant packaging of our food. No continent, no group of humans escapes them. In the US, 20 years ago, the courts forced PFAS-producing industries to pay for damage caused by their products. The lawyer who defends these industrialists promises them a scandal worse than tobacco and asbestos combined. But in Europe, civil society and public authorities are only now becoming aware of how big the problem actually is. In France, in response to the scandal, an ambitious law has just been passed in record time: it provides for a ban on certain PFAS and introduces the polluter pays principle for future industrial discharges of PFAS. But will this tax be enough to clean up the drinking water and soil that have already been contaminated for decades? According to researchers, every human being on the planet has PFAS running through their veins without knowing or being aware of the threat it poses. There are solutions that we need to implement so that we can continue drinking water from the tap or just breathe the air that is around us. The ambition of this film is both to give an idea of the global scale of this disaster, and to say that it is time for Europeans to oppose it together, rather than each country acting on its own.

The documentary explores the Dahieh doctrine, which Israel uses in Lebanon, justifying the use of disproportionate force against civilians to weaken popular support for Hezbollah. This approach is based on the idea that the militias, hiding among civilians, are thus, responsible for everything that happens to the population.

On Friday, September 27, 2024, the UN General Assembly held its breath. Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in New York to deliver a speech. The French and the Americans had just submitted a proposal for a 21-day ceasefire. Urged on by Emmanuel Macron, Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati travelled all the way from Beirut to negotiate the details of the agreement... but as soon as the Israeli Prime Minister started addressing the audience, hopes of reaching an agreement were shattered: Benjamin Netanyahu instead called for escalation in a fiery speech, much more addressed to his country’s public opinion than to the diplomats in the room - indeed, most of the Arab representatives preferred to leave the room. As soon as he had finished his speech with the words “We shall overcome” in Hebrew, Israeli Prime Minister went into a small room to make a phone call. A photo shows him giving the order to strike Hezbollah's headquarters, where Hassan Nasrallah was stationed.

With exclusive footage of Agence France-Presse (AFP) journalists reporting from Gaza, this film is a unique insider's account of a conflict that most of the international media have been prevented to access freely. It tells the story of these journalists who, risking their lives, continue to report the news under rocket fire, while also ensuring their own survival and that of their loved ones.

Gaza reporters Mai Yaghi, Adel Zaanun, Mohammed Abed, Mahmud Hams and Yahya Hassuna have covered numerous wars on behalf of AFP. But the current conflict in Gaza is unlike any other. During almost seven months, they were constantly torn between their mission to inform the world, the struggle for survival and the fear of becoming a target.  From their exile in the UK, Qatar, Egypt, Belgium or France, they look back at the darkest months of their existence.

The story of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas is always portrayed the same: the explorer travelling in a caravel, planting the Christian cross one knee on the ground and meeting with a new people. By following Caribbean, European and American researchers as they investigate the remains that were left behind by Indigenous peoples, this archaeological and scientific the documentary sets out to destroy the myths that have persisted to this day. From Puerto Rico to Cuba, from Martinique all the way to French Guiana, this investigation takes us on an adventure to appreciate exceptional landscapes and make incredible discoveries following in the footsteps of the pre-Columbian Indigenous Caribbeans.

When Christopher Columbus landed on an island in the Bahamas in October 1492, he didn't just discover a new world, he also met a whole new people. He called them “Indians” and perceived some of them as “good savages” and others as “ferocious cannibals”. This documentary tells the story of how two different worlds met, and it does so through the eyes of the people of the West Indies. Rock paintings, ritual objects, bones and pottery shards tell a new narrative, quite different from the one that was passed down by European settlers. So, who were the pre-Columbian people of the West Indies? How did they meet the Europeans? And finally, did they really disappear, as is often claimed? To answer these questions, we will be unveiling archaeological sites and presenting new scientific experiments to try and learn more about this fascinating civilization.

The nuclear era, revived today by Vladimir Putin, began in Los Alamos under Robert Oppenheimer, who developed the atomic bomb for the Manhattan Project. After Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Oppenheimer opposed the hydrogen bomb and was accused of disloyalty in 1954, leading to his downfall. This film, using interviews and declassified FBI files, examines his complex legacy and enduring remorse.

Accused of disloyalty in 1954, he was removed from decision-making. downfall.  Oppenheimer was then led to The “father of the atomic bomb” was one of the most surveiled men in the world. Using interviews, wiretaps and declassified FBI documents, the film explores the complex portrait of a man haunted by his remorse and the legacy he left behind.

In the 4th century, when the Roman Empire, weakened by barbarian invasions, was at its lowest, Constantine the Great decided to create a Christian Empire, and positioned his new capital, Constantinople, on Greek territory. The Eastern Roman Empire would go down in history as the Byzantine Empire, named after the colony, Byzantium, on which Constantinople was founded.

From 330, the date of Constantinople's foundation, to 1453, the date of the city's capture by the Ottomans, over a thousand years of conquests, ups and downs, were written the history of Byzantium, at once Roman, Christian and Greek, neither entirely Eastern nor entirely Western, straddling Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

Why does Vizier Weni the Elder, who lived some 4,300 years ago, have two tombs? And why did he refuse to be buried next to Pepi I Meryre, the divine figure who opened the gates to eternal life for him? As Egyptologists make the discovery of one of his tombs, they investigate this enigmatic figure and an era that was both a golden age for ancient Egypt and the beginning of its decline.

Recent discoveries suggest that profound political and religious changes were at work in Egypt during the time when the vizier became one of Egypt’s highest officials under Pepi I Meryre. Egyptologists from the Franco-Swiss archaeological mission to Saqqara are attempting to uncover important and magnificent remains from this golden age of Egyptian civilization, with their sights set on a mysterious tomb they believe to be that of Weni the Elder, a great figure and vizier during the reign of Pepi I Meryre. However, he already had his own tomb, which was discovered in 1860 by Auguste Mariette and his team, in the necropolis of Abydos, 400 km away from Saqqara, where he held high office until his death. It was here that his monumental biography was found, engraved in a three-meter-long limestone block: a famous biography which, when compared to inscribed blocks that were unearthed at Saqqara, led Philippe Collombert to think that it could be Weni the Elder.
 

Jellyfish blooms happening around the world are increasingly making headlines in the international media. This is due to the damage they cause to tourism, fishing and our health. How are animals made up of over 98% water, with no shell, skeleton or brain, capable of such massive expansion?

Although this is a normal stage in the life cycle of these gelatinous animals, we have to admit that blooms have become much more frequent and massive in recent decades. We're even witnessing jellyfish populations appearing in more and more regions where fish have been replaced by them, such as off the coast of Namibia, in the Black Sea, in the Sea of Japan and in certain areas of the Baltic Sea. What causes this? Why has the role of jellyfish in the ocean been underestimated, even though they outlived the dinosaurs? Are jellyfish on their way to dominating the oceans as they once did? What if they were to be the only ones left?