Catalogue des films de « Olivier Zuchuat »

On the edge of the Sahara, in Burkina Faso, the village of Kamsé is being destroyed by the effects of creeping desertification. To ensure the village’s survival, the villagers decided to embark on the planning of a perimeter. Armed with shovels...

Amidst the popular uprising against the Syrian regime that began in 2011, a group of former Lebanese detainees decides to break their long-held silence about the horrific years they spent imprisoned in Tadmor (Palmyra), one of the Assad regime's...

It took two years for Mehran Tamadon to persuade the four supporters of the Iranian regime to risk taking part in an experiment with him. Now he receives them as guests at his family’s country house to try out something that does not exist in...

Between 1947 and 1950, more than 80 000 Greek citizens were imprisoned on the isle of Makronisos (Greece) in reeducation camps created to fight the spread of communism. Among these exiles were a number of writers and poets, including Yannis Ritsos...

C’est une photo prise un an avant la chute du mur de Berlin. Une photo prise lors d’une rencontre clandestine au fond des bois, à la frontière de la Pologne et de la Tchécoslovaquie et qui rassemble des opposants tchécoslovaques et...

La chute du Mur de Berlin, le 9 novembre 1989, marque la fin du XXe siècle. Pendant trois décennies, le Mur a été l’emblème douloureux d’une ville mutilée, d’un pays déchiré, d’une Europe fracturée, d’un monde divisé. "Un mur...

April 2006. 13 000 members of the Dajo ethnic group have taken refuge on the plain of Gouroukoun in eastern Chad. They are all survivors of the Darfur conflict. Secluded in the camp they have constructed, they create their own way of life and...

De Tahiti à Brest, chez lui, Olivier de Kersauson nous emmène dans un voyage impressionniste. Il livre sans compromis ses multiples expériences humaines, maritimes et technologiques. À 64 ans, il a toujours ce regard aiguisé sur le monde et...

"Who pays its debts gets richer", says the proverb. Sometimes, the proverbs are wrong. The sub-Saharan countries have borrowed millions of dollars in the seventies as developmental aid. But some of them as Mali for instance have already reimbursed...

In Mali they are called the djelis. The West calls them griots. These are a caste of masters of the spoken word, of storytellers, musicians, go-betweens, or noble genealogists. It is said that when a griot dies, it's an entire library that...