Catalogue des films de « Thomas Balmès »

Pyangki est un petit moine bouddhiste de huit ans, solitaire et rêveur. Il vit avec sa mère dans un village isolé du Bouthan, à 4 000 mètres d’altitude. La route arrive en 2013 et, avec elle, l'électricité et la télévision. En...

Takuya is 18, with tousled hair and an athletic look. Driven by his father and sponsors, he leaves his hometown in Hokkaido to go to Tokyo and joins a sumo stable. There, he will share everything with the 10 other wrestlers : day-to-day life,...

Quatre pays… quatre bébés… de la naissance aux premiers pas. Ils s’appellent Ponijao, Bayarjargal, Mari et Hattie et vivent en Namibie, en Mongolie, au Japon et aux États-Unis. "Bébés" nous plonge simultanément au coeur de cultures...

"The one and only social responsibility of business is to make profits" was a guiding principle for Milton Friedman, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics. It is the principle that appears at the start of Thomas Balmès’ film, serving as an...

The filmmaker's previous film, "The Gospel according to the Papuans", showed the Huli warriors of Mundugya, a village in Papua New Guinea, being baptised under the influence of their old chief Ghini. The chief had been worried by the predictions...

The Huli tribe is one of the 900 tribes of Papua New Guinea. They live in one of the more remote parts of the island and saw the first Whites, Methodist missionnaries, arrive in 1955. Since then, these missionaries have had to compete with other...

How do Indians – who worship cows – look at Europe stuck in the mad cow crisis ? And what sort of picture can you get of Occidental progress when you are in India and simply watch TV ? To answer these questions, Thomas Balmès went to India...

The life of the Samburu warriors in their village of the North Kenya. Feasts, songs of women, and celebration of the circumcision, when young adults become warriors... But today, being a Samburu warrior also means wearing a blue helmet in the UN...