Non fiction

44 episodes

Non fiction 8 min.

The Pursuit of Happiness: How Has the Office Become Our Last Refuge?

For almost a year now, teleworking has become the rule around the world. A new norm that is shaking up relationships between colleagues and ending informal lunches and coffee breaks. For better or for worse?

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Non fiction 8 min.

This volcano I've known since birth

She is the little sister, the younger daughter, the little princess. The one people like to pamper and spoil. For Clarisse, her little sister represents violence. The one who, one day, started to make threats, to frighten. When she talks about her, it is often to say that "she is crazy". Yet, officially, she is not.

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Non fiction 8 min.

Dear Instagram, dear Facebook, I hereby tender my resignation…

To abide by the rules of the algorithm and produce always more, is it really leisure? If this hobby becomes a job, then Maud decides to quit.

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Non fiction 11 min.

On a never produced film by Stanley Kubrick

2001: A Space Odyssey and Eyes Wide Shut, the two Stanley Kubrick classics could never have existed without "This Virus from Space", the only film ever released by the American director.

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Non fiction 9 min.

Working ourselves clean : why are we so busy ?

When my father-in-law insists on going to the office when the whole world is in lockdown, my whole vision of work is questioned.

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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Whether we met at a bar or via the soon-to-be-outdated Minitel one sentence was recurrent: “Sorry, I am not into Asians”.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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