Catalogue des films de « Catherine Tellier »

December 1995, Monrovia, Liberia. A child alone in the street, among the ruins of a town which has been pillaged and abandoned after six years of war. He is 11 years old and calls himself "Hitler the killer" : "it's my war name, the name I was...

The people from Sans-Souci tell about their love for their land, their willingness to stay whatever the cost, about their denial for an experiencing of a less noble misery than the one they live in their cabins, 500 meters up there. La Réunion,...

Ouessè, a village in Bénin, a radio set up by French-speaking countries but run by a local management committee and completely autonomous thanks to solar energy : the story of Radio Ouessè began and changed the life of the inhabitants in a...

"I'm eleven, my name is Hitler Killer. This is the fighting name they gave me in the bush. My real name is Abraham." In Liberia they are 6,000 to be like him, lawless, pitiless armed teenagers. Today Hitler-Abraham is a street-boy in Monrovia....

Empangeni, a small middle-class town in the Natal where ANC demonstrators accuse the IFP of massacring their members. The local representative of the ANC denounces police complicity. In Ndondwane, a small village of the Mthetwa reserve, a few...

Princess is a pretty little girl, happy and sometimes dreamy. At school she is a little the teacher's special care. She arrived in her class in the middle of the school year when she had one morning to leave suddenly her house on fire, abandoning...

Sibongile Zungu is a woman doctor. She lives as a member of the middle-class, as do the few coloured people who have managed to attain the living standards of the Whites. She also represents Zulu tradition : on her husband's death she fought to...

The Chaabanes are shepherds in the South of Tunisia. They travel through the Jeffara with their sheep and the Dahar with their camels. Three months here, two months there, a father, his son and two boys live on a zone of several hundred square...

The Chaabanes are nomad herdsmen in South Tunisia. Ever since they came from Saudi Arabia they have been going over the Jeffara with their sheep and the Dahar with their camels. Three months here, two months there, the father, son and the three...

The massacres in Rwanda ceased in August 1994. In four months one out of ten Rwandais had been killed. Hundreds of thousands of others took refuge in the refugee camps. Since then, millions of Rwandais are trying to forget that mass madness. The...