FALLEN FROM THE SKY

FR | 2020 | 52' | HD | French, English (sub.) | By Matteo Meglioli | Chickens Chicots | Broadcaster: France Télévisions

 

Through an extreme sport, parachuting, three modern heroines, Mégane, Paméla and Shiame, claim their freedom and explore the limits of our society. Lieutenant 1st Regiment, world champion free fall and mother of immigrant family, they all have a different reason to jump. But are passion and leisure the last spaces where women still have to claim their right to equality?

HiNE TAI'A, chronicles of a fishermen family

FR | 2018 | 52' | HD | French (sub.), English (sub.) | By Thomas Delorme & Virginie Tetoofa Dude Presse | Broadcaster: France Télévisions

 

Nestled under the coconut trees of Tahiti, the village of Tautira is home to a unique fishing family. The young Tetuara is one of the few women on the island who fishes big-game. Making her father proud and earning the respect of the entire community, she is the pillar of a family which depends on the product of her fishing. With her young sister, they perpetuate the practice of a tough traditional profession, respectful of nature, incorporating certain evolutions of the modern world.

THE SHEPHERDESS OF THE GLACIERS

FR | 2015 | 43'/74' | HD | English (sub.), French (sub.) | By Stanzin Dorjai Gya & Christiane Mordelet | Les Films de la Découverte | Broadcasters: ZDF, ARTE

 

Far away from any civilization, on the dry Himalayan plateaus (up to 18,300 feet altitude), Tsering the shepherd devotes her whole life to her 300 hundred sheep and Pashmînâ goats, that she cherishes like a mother. She grazes them under the threat of wild animals. The new generations refusing this hard lonely work, it makes those images even more rare and moving. A life far from the western world luxury industries to which the cashmere wool is destined.