Ex libris / Frederick Wiseman – 2018
Language: English – Subtitles: French
DVD (431)
Frederick Wiseman invests a grand institution of knowledge and reveals it as a place of apprenticeship, welcome and exchange.
The New York Public Library entices to reading, to deepen one’s knowledge and takes the needs of its readers at heart. Thanks to its 92 branches, the third biggest library in the world is shedding its light in three districts of the town and participates in the social cohesion of the different parts of this cosmopolitan and plural city.
How this unequalled place remains the emblem of an open culture accessible to all?
Des femmes et des hommes / Frédérique Bedos – 2018
Languages: English, French – Subtitles: English, French, German and Spanish
DVD ( 430)
Nowhere in the world, can we witness a true situation of sex equality, whether in the North or in the South, in Westernized towns or in far secluded villages. What is even worse, equality is declining.
In every culture, in every religion, in every level of education victims are still women, mothers, daughters, sisters.
Emmanuelle Bedos draws a very powerful picture of women today and draws our attention to what is truly at stakes behind the discrimination women have to endure everywhere in the world, from an historical, political and economic point of view.
My love affair with the brain: the life and science of Dr Marian Diamond / Catherine Ryan and Gary Weimberg – 2017
Language : English – Subtitles: French
DVD (432)
It’s the story of a woman who carries a human brain in a hat box. Dr Marian Diamond, one of the founders of modern neurosciences has fought her way as a woman in the scientific world, has inspired generations and changed more than one scientific paradigm in her sixty-year-old career.
Her course on YouTube counts one million seven hundred thousand views.
Regards sur nos assiettes / Pierre Beccu – 2017
Language: French Subtitles: English
DVD (429)
Six students in geography and food engineering investigate our food consumption. They trace up the food circuit from their own plates down to the soil, study its impacts on our choice as consumers and discover, quite spontaneously, the other side of the plate. From hypermarkets to local producers, answers vary.
Meanwhile, the words and actions of the pioneers of tomorrow’s agriculture outline our future lives.
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