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Ancestral healing therapies resist all scientific progress and healers are overwhelmed by patients requests. By helping us mobilize our self-healing abilities, healers sometimes seem to work miracles. How does science account for such therapies? Can...
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Does voluntourism do more harm than good? Teaching English in Nepal, counting elephants in Botswana; paid volunteer missions abroad are very popular with young people. Many of them, full of enthusiasm, fall into the trap. Behind the supposedly...
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“130 Children” is the portrait of an exceptional family composed by Melba (65) and Víctor (70). A Costa Rican couple of humble origin, parents of 6 biological children and more than 130 adopted ones over the last 40 years. The film begins by showing...
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The documentary is set in the far north of Sweden and Norway, where a conflict over land and borders seem to be eternally ongoing. Simon and Beatrice Marainen and their three children are a part of an indigenous Sami semi-nomadic community of...
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One hour’s drive from Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital, all those leaving the “free West” towards Belarus, “the last dictatorship in Europe”, must pass through a strict border control. Crossing this border is a time consuming and almost absurd...
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On each side of the border between Lithuania and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, there is an ornithological station that studies the migration of the millions of birds crossing this border region. Today, for the first time, both ornithological...
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On the border between Serbia and Croatia, in an area where the bloody Yugoslav war still resonates, there is a pile of sand in the Danube that someone wants to turn into a new country. In 2015, the microstate called Liberland was founded by a Czech...
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A journey through the vocation of five shepherds who see how the profession they love come to an end. A travel over the course of a year that allows us to understand what has brought them there and where they are heading. A reflection on a lifestyle...
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Borderline is a collection of six documentary films set on six intriguing borders that surround and divide the European continent. By following the footsteps of people who encounter these frontiers on a daily basis, Borderline explores the...
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Geneva, the capital of human rights, is also the capital of oil trading. One third of the world's oil is traded from the shores of Lake Geneva. But this honeymoon between Geneva and black gold is not without its ups and downs. Gunvor, one of the...
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How and why does one become a jihadist? In September 2020, a radicalized man stabbed a young Portuguese man to death in a kebab shop in Morges, Switzerland. Last January, the man nicknamed "the Emir", a man of Bosnian origin who converted to Islam,...
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He had everything going for him: sumptuous mistresses, despite a sham marriage, the prestige of power over Spain, whose democratic transition he had ensured after Francos's military dictatorship. Would money have been his undoing? His passion for...
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While the world experienced one of the worst pandemics ever, the wild animals of the African Savannah suffered a genuine odyssey which was never told before. A television crew, trapped in the Masai Mara when the world locked down, was able to...
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By constructing an iron fence, right through the beautiful KUPA-region, Slovenia has made Croatia somewhat an unwilling buffer for the influx of the refugees coming from Bosnia, trying to reach Europe. Of cause of the fence, the usual way of life...
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How far can the greed of slum landlords go? This investigation into the living conditions of Filipino workers in Geneva reveals a sordid traffic in which an apartment can be rented by the room at exorbitant prices, sometimes to more than ten...
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From the 1980s until 2010, the NSA spied through a backdoor in the Solaris operating system that equipped hardware sold by Sun Microsystems to countless Swiss companies and universities. Was the American company, taken over by Oracle in 2009, a...
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