SummaryWhat role does artistic creation play when it encounters a person, a story, a country? Rotha, a 53-year-old Franco-Cambodian filmmaker who lives between France and Cambodia, has always been passionate about artistic creation and artists. Like a protective older brother, he accompanies them, tries to...
SummaryIn the heart of Auvergne, the Puy de Dôme overlooks the volcanoes of the Chaîne des Puys. From the city of Clermont-Ferrand, you only have to look up to admire the tall silhouette of the dormant volcano. It stands there, like a lighthouse guiding travellers,...
SummaryThierry Courtadon sculpts grey lava stone that is specific to the Auvergne region and its chain of volcanoes. He comes from a family of stonemasons, but he is the first in his lineage to transform Volvic stone into something artistic, malleable and luminous. This unique,...
SummaryGermany, 1933. Hitler seizes power and forces German Jews into exile. Between 1933 and 1939, they flee Nazi persecution. How did the young Hannah Arendt and millions of German Jews flee their country to seek refuge in France? How did France, a land of welcome,...
SummaryOur daughter Noa was born into a family with roots in several countries: France, Russia and Cameroon. To share and bring this cultural complexity to life, her father and I are putting together a little puppet show for her birthday. We want her to feel...
SummaryAn archaeologist friend takes me to the other side of the Hauts-de-France region, a few metres below ground level. I discover that this region, which still dreams of industry, is teeming with objects and traces of long-forgotten ancestors. In the middle of this vast, amnesiac...
SummaryThe site of the famous Gallic chief Vercingetorix's only and fleeting victory over Julius Caesar's Roman legions, Gergovie is the subject of much speculation. The location of this battle on the slopes of a vast volcanic plateau south of Clermont-Ferrand has often been called into...
SummaryPascal, Gwenaël and their three daughters, Naïline, Lilwen and Olwéane, are travelling on the sailing boat Nansen for three years on a trip around the Atlantic, from Brittany to the Arctic, via Africa and the Amazon. During their stopovers, the teenage girls decide to meet...
SummaryIn 2019, a curious square shape measuring approximately 25 metres on each side appeared on geophysical surveys of the subsoil carried out at the La Peyrouse site in the Dordogne region of France. Archaeologist Eneko Hiriart, a researcher at the CNRS, led the investigation. Very...
