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Les Vulves Assassines are true superheroes. Armed with guitars, synthesizers and good lyrics, they get the crowds dancing, fight against the extreme right and the patriarchy. A fact that infuriates some. After eleven years of getting by, children and a hundred concerts, despite threats and doubts, the musical and militant adventure continues!

With her book, The Useless Sex, the Italian journalist Orianna Falalci tried to understand whether there was a universel female condition. Sixty years on, I take up her conclusion to question the unhappiness that still seems to plague women. In a polarized thinking society, I start a journey around individual love and freedom struggles.

In their two-century struggle for racial equality, African Americans have made Christian music a primary means of expressing their distress, anger, and determination. Gospel Revolution tells this deeply religious and political story in music, without contradiction. 

Tomorrow, Mohammed Guerroumi will no longer be Jean-Pierre Guérin. After 54 years of legal battles, he regains the identity whoch have been erased by his guardian in order to assimiliate him as a Frenchman. Son of a harki, disowned by Algeria and by France, he realizes at the end of his crusade that his quest is not so much a legal affair as the hope of a reconciliation with its history.

Elodie is Breton and Malagasy, rural yet lokking like a city-dweller, an agro-industrialist but a bit green, and a top-level athlete. She shatters our clichés about farmers. This year, her parents will be retiring. She will have to make decisions on her own, to transform the famr into a project that reflects all the -sometimes contradictory- facets of her personnality.