*English audio* / Non fiction

Invisible Cities

Sarah uses the occasion of recent discoveries in the Upper Amazon to reflect on how we imagine “the wild,” weaving together imperial, scientific, and indigenous histories to explore how the natural world can resist our attempts to silence it.

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Motherhood

In a world where work shapes our lives and motherhood remains an invisible struggle, how do we decide when it’s time to give life? Through personal narratives and societal pressures, Jenny reflects on choices, sacrifices, and what truly shapes our desires.

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Non fiction 12 min.

The Sound That Persists

Traveling across Iowa, where vast cornfields seem to smother the wild, Richard reflects on what silence and loss can reveal. With his hearing altered by a gunshot, he explores how to listen anew to what we’ve nearly forgotten.

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The Usurped Struggle of the Farming World

They block highways, but who truly understands them? Farmers, caught between pastoral clichés and harsh realities, feed us while crying out that it’s killing them—their struggles erased by unions that fail to represent them. Aliosha, born on the Larzac plateau but now a city dweller, questions this distance, where the hum of tractors conceals what really matters.

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Fiction 11 min.

Dating Paul S. Stein

She thought she’d found the perfect partner: charismatic, passionate, and sharing her Jewish identity. But as their conversations turn into heated debates over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, their ideological differences come to light. Can their love withstand such irreconcilable worldviews?

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Non fiction 8 min.

We young French North African women are never forgiven of anything

How do you stay true to yourself without feeling that you’re betraying your loved ones?

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