Paris, Charles de Gaulle airport, April 2011.Jacques and Safi have just been repatriated from Ivory Coast where the civil war rumbles. Jacques’s skin is deeply tanned by a long life under Africa’s sun as an expatriate...
Philippe Fournier, aka Paco, lives with his 6 and 7 year old sons, having decided not to give them back to their mother after she won custody of the children.
As children and then adolescents, Okyesa and Tsali Fournier must live...
Helen, Lili and Rose, 3 young jewish woman, met in Auschwitz where they were deported. Thanks to German-speaking Dutch Lili who was working in the camp kitchen, the 2 French girls survived.
After the liberation of the...
Hagar is beautiful enough
Enough for me
Enough for me
Gold rain falls over her house.
It is truly the sun of god.
In a world that does not appreciate artists, where sensitive souls don't stand a chance, a...
1943. Bill Rohan is 9, overjoyed that his school has been ruined by a stray Luftwaffe bomb, but saddened by the departure of his older sister, pregnant by a Canadian soldier and about to emigrate to the new world.
1952. Bill...
Metz, East of France, 1959.
Michel and Hélène Aubertin form a perfect couple. Michel is an ambitious notary and Hélène divides her time between charity work and raising their son Jacky. There is nothing unusual about them apart...
Not far from Timbuktu, now ruled by the religious fundamentalists, Kidane lives peacefully in the dunes with his wife Satima, his daughter Toya and Issan, their twelve-year-old shepherd.
In town, people suffer,...
During the last forty years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever changing humanity. He has witnessed the major events of our recent history ; international...
Benjamin is meant to be a great doctor, he’s certain of it. But his first experience as a junior doctor in the hospital ward where his father works doesn’t turn out the way he hoped it would. Responsibility is overwhelming, his...
September 16th 2011. The TV news networks, newspapers, blogs, websites and radio stations are all reporting on one story: star author Michel Houellebecq, winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt in 2010, has been abducted. Some...
