Catalogue des films de « Bernard Surugue »

Brown Bullhead Fish, the forefather of mankind, and Bama the Crocodile, the executioner for the master of water, tell people along the Niger River about their current problems. They mention the consequences of draught and human activity on the...

The fight against river blindness, onchocerciasis, has started in 1974 in seven West-African countries. Today, the battle against this social and economical plague spreads over the entire African continent. Blackflies, the vectors of this...

"La Visita" est le nom donné au gigantesque raz-de-marée qui s'est produit en Équateur et en Colombie en 1906. En effet, au cours du XXe siècle, l'Équateur et la Colombie ont subi des raz-de-marée dévastateurs et quatre très grands...

This film was shot in Brazil in the states of Bahia, Manaus and Rio Grande where every day, migrant families, homeless and without work, try to settle in search of a better future. Along with them, diseases connected with the environment and...

Jean Rouch’s return to Niger to meet again with his African friends, and the play by Aeschylus "The Persians", provide him with an opportunity to tell about his Dionysiac viewpoint about the world and Songhai mythology. Lam, the now deceased...

The 131 million inhabitants of 11 West African countries will enter the thrid millennium with a fabulous heritage : 25 million hectares of fertile land freed of a redoutable scourge, onchocerciasis or river blindness. This unprecedented success is...

40 % of the world's population is threatened by malaria, disease of poverty, and it kills 4,000 people daily : most of these are children. This film, made in the Benin, in Brazil and in the Vietnam shows us the environmental, economics and social...

On the coast of Mauritania, ocean blue and desert gold come together. For Mauritanians confronted to drought, the sea and its richness have become a unique opportunity for development. But how can they take advantage of these exceptional resources...

In the Ivory Coast, a group of researchers has just brought under control the reproduction cycle of a catfish called the "machoiron" which is living in lagoons and whose flesh is very much appreciated. This method paves the way for the future...