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A 25 X 3 min. series, featuring existential questions with entertainment ! Why do we live ? Why should we be good ? Why do we speak ? What’s the use for love ? Why one needs courage ?In this series as in our lifes, children ask questions. Here, in Morocco, Nepal, Bolivia, Belgium, Congo, Cambodia, Senegal, Romania, Uruguay, Argentina... they think over one question together, with their own philosophy. And it is striking with a refreshing world common sense !

Set in the gray period before the Nuremberg trial, Ashcan unveils the story of the secret prison where US Army authority detained main Nazi leaders, in Luxembourg: Goering, Doenitz, Keitel, Rosenberg, Ley, Frank, Streicher, Seyss-Inquart, Lutz von Krosigk, von Papen ... The allies needed to figure out the Nazi regime functionning. 

Through the tragic fate of a human rights defender in Ukraine, his claim for asylum in France and his alleged death, the director wonders. Between police investigation and psychological thriller, she invites to understand a mysterious man with multiple identities, always ready to disappear to be reborn elsewhere.

A respectful ode to the female orgasm in Rwanda, guided by Vestine, a radio deejay with a mission, Sacred water discovers rwandan sexuality in search of the water that gushes out the female body. It reveals with spontaneity the mystery of female bliss and immerses into a modern Rwanda rediscovering its heritage in the most intimate way : female pleasure, while confronting the occidental viewer on intimacy.

On the beaches of Qeshm Island (southern Iran), Mohammad, Hassan and Ahmad, three traditional moshta (‘trap’) fishermen are striving to preserve their outdated way of fishing, surrounded by plants, harbors, trawlers and ferries, and not giving up. The film opens a window on rural Iran entrapped between traditions and modernity.

Laosan, a young family man, spends all his time smoking opium. For his community, lost in the heart of the Laotian jungle, opium farming is the only way to survive. But opium is also the poison that puts men to sleep and kills their desires, leaving up women to deal with realities.

The director returns to Greece, which she left at the sudden death, while shooting his last film, of Theo Angelopoulos - she was his assistant. A country facing social violence, a general impoverishment and the collapse of a whole system of values. The film, in the form of a letter, however alternates fragments of utopia and hope with carefully chosen films excerpts of the greek director.

Emmanuel Botalatala, the Minister of Garbage of Kinshasa, enters the last portion of his life. Having sacrificed everything for his art, turning trash into beauty, he stubbornly carries on with his work and secure his legacy for future generations, promoting a culture center in the slums, and passing on his skills to his apprentice.

In a EU countryside refugee center, children come from Afghanistan, Eritrea, Iraq or Syria, they all fled war, persecution or poverty. They have few information on the reasons of their departure but an anguish never leaves them. The director has met them over a year, unveiling their condition and their extraordinary force of adaptation - wether they will be authorized to stay or not – they seize the day.

1991 – Burundi. They were six African street children, the Director was a young European filmmaker. He promised them to keep on filming them through lifetime until death would separate them, they made four films together, this one being the sum of all of them. Today, the survivors are forty-years-old. Each of them grew old, in his very own way… What gives value to a human’s life? 

In a permaculture schooling farm and within a beehive-like bunch, we meet those who have engaged in a new philosophy of providing food and taste, and initiate in listening to nature and act on the future. Confronting industrial farming with its excesses, permaculture replaces annual crops and seeds with  a perenial  agriculture, nurishing the earth as much as using it.