Mon, Feb 18, 2019
For one year, the director followed the students of a French course at the Voillaume d'Aulnay-sous-Bois high school in Seine-Saint-Denis, located in a priority education zone. The objective of their teacher Mathilde Levesque, author of "LOL is also a palindrome" and "Figures stylées": to teach teenagers to think freely, to argue, to have self-confidence. In her classes, she evokes the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, lyrical singing, sophrology and the art of eloquence. This documentary paints a portrait of these young people and focuses on their vision of life, their language and their dreams.
Mon, Jun 10, 2019
Thanks to the journey of its characters and by observing their daily lives, "The new key to the fields" answers essential questions: is the rapid disintegration of the countryside real, inexorable? Is this rural world a laboratory for inventing a new alternative way of life to the problems of the city? The new Clé des Champs offers an immersion in Puisaye. A territory that well represents the fabric that makes France. A territory where clichés about rurality are gradually covered by a different reality, often innovative and sometimes disturbing. Because it is undoubtedly in the countryside that things have changed the most in 20 years, in depth, but without a taste for the spectacular. Women, for example, have become major players in local life, often occupying positions of political responsibility. A commitment that is striking and particularly visible in the villages where energies swarm and come together to move the lines. A universe where personal commitment expresses the will to face challenges in order to solve them.
Mon, Oct 21, 2019
The Fessenheim nuclear power plant will stop all activity in 2020 with the shutdown of the first reactor in February and the second in June. The ultramodern flagship of nuclear energy when it was built in 1977, became a symbol of danger. But the oldest of French nuclear power plants employs 850 employees from EDF and 350 employees from subcontracting companies. It also ensures the municipality of Fessenheim, a prosperity out of the ordinary. For forty years, the inhabitants of the village oppose a silent reserve in the face of fiery national polemics. From the mayor Claude to the union leader Jean-Luc, to the concierge Jennifer and the environmental activist Gabriel, all are worried about their future, fearing to be abandoned. Before the time of reconversion, the negotiations remain difficult between the commune and the french State.