North Korea, the great illusion

May 19, 2015.

52 minutes. A documentary by Michaël Sztanke and Julien Alric.

In 2012, after two years of negociations, Michaël Sztanke and Julien Alric secured a visa to get into North Korea. From this first trip they only brought back official footages. They were never allowed to film what laid behind Pyongyang’s showcase. Two …

Romeo and Juliet in Jordan

Arte Reportage, April 25, 2015.

22 minutes. A report by François-Xavier Tregan and Julien Alric.

Shakespeare shows up between Homs and Amman: a Syrian Romeo, living as a refugee in Jordan, declares his love to a Juliet locked in the besieged Syrian city of Homs….

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Syria: wresting control of Kobani from IS group

Reporters, January 30, 2015. 

12 minutes. A report by Massoud Ahmad, Michael Sztanke and Olivier Marzin.

After long months of fierce fighting in Northern Syria, the Kurdish town of Kobani has been recaptured from Islamic State group jihadists. Here are the final hours of the siege of Kobani.…

Norway: give us your trash!

Arte Reportage, December 6, 2014.

12 minutes. A report by Séverine Bardon and Franck Vrignon.

Norway produces more than 10 tons of waste every year. The country favours recycling and reusing, and everything that can’t be dealt with this way, everything that, in most countries, would end up in a landfill, is used to produce energy. …

Cambodia, a traumatized nation

Arte Reportage, June 7, 2014.

12 minutes. A report by Séverine Bardon and Vincent Reynaud.

In Cambodia, the trials of Khmer Rouge leaders revived memories many had hidden deep into their mind. Thirty years after the fall of Pol Pot’s regime, one third of the Cambodian population still suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder.

Psychological reconstruction has …

Venezuela: chronicles of a divided country

Arte reportage, May 24, 2014.

26 minutes. A report by Pascale Mariani, Juan Orozco, Felipe Camacho and Catalina Lobo-Guerrero.

One year after the death of President Hugo Chavez, Venezuela seems to be on the verge of a nervous breakdown. The profound division between the opponents and the partisans of Nicolas Maduro, the new President and …

In Prijedor, survivors fight to keep memory alive

Revisited, April 20, 2014.

15 minutes. Séverine Bardon and Sébastien Lafargue’s report.

In Bosnia-Herzegovina, the discovery of the Prijedor mass grave has revived the trauma of a war that local authorities work hard to ignore. Physical traces of the conflict have been carefully erased: the Omarska detention camp is once again a mine (operated by …

The takeoff of an afghan woman

Arte Reportage, 8th of march, 2014.

12 minutes. A report by Feurat Alani and Yvon Le Gall.

25 years after the soviet troops withdrawal, Kaboul gets ready to live without the Americans and their allies. The NATO military coalition is going to leave Afghanistan with a feeling of dissatisfaction. They leave behind them a bruised …

Khmer Americans: return to sender

Arte Reportage, March 15th, 2014.

12 minutes. Séverine Bardon and Vincent Reynaud’s report.

Their parents had fled to the US to escape the bloody Khmer Rouge regime. They consider themselves as Americans, deported to Cambodia. Since 2002, the United States expel to Phnom Penh youngster with Cambodian origins, who committed crimes on American territory. Since …

Indonesia, a giant arrising

Un Oeil sur la Planète, february 17, 2014.

18 minutes. Séverine Bardon and Vincent Reynaud’s report.

Indonesia has seen an amazing economic growth over the past years. With 250 million citizens, the market has become crucial for multinationals. It’s estimated that the PIB from the country will increase up to six times from now to …