Non fiction

28 episodes

Non fiction 11 min.

Chimamanda was right

4 days in Reims to explore with French high school students their representations of Africa. The experience turns out to be progressively chilling for Ysiaka.

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Non fiction 9 min.

How Columbus ruined my birthday

Javier was born on the same day as the Mexican national holiday celebrating Christopher Columbus. An almost harmless date until statues started to be taken down.

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Non fiction 21 min.

L’Américain

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Non fiction 15 min.

The Color of Desire

Whether we met at a bar or via the soon-to-be-outdated Minitel one sentence was recurrent: “Sorry, I am not into Asians”. That's all I was to these people: “Asian” and apparently, this placed me on the bottom rung of the desirability ladder.

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Memory-City, Living-Memory

Justin wasn't born in Paris, but he feels right at home here. Blame it on the memories he's created there, perhaps?

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Non fiction 6 min.

Réunion Island: End of the world, end of the month—two sides of the same battle?

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Non fiction 13 min.

A word for that

Caelainn takes us on a lyrical journey through language and landscape, tracing her ancestral roots in Ireland.

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Jai Alai:The Joyful Game

Nicolas, proud of his Basque heritage, explores his identity quest through rock, meals at his abuela's, and political analysis.

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Non fiction 14 min.

Ingredients for belonging

From the rooftops of Kathmandu to the cornfields of the Midwest, Sarah and Wyatt explore what our food says about us.

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