In northern Benin, each year from October to January, DRAMANE and ZACHARI, drivers of rattling trucks survive only to the rhythm of the cotton harvest. Like them, hundreds of drivers are trying to profit from this white gold which represents nearly 40% of BENINs exports to rich countries. But in this very poor country, the cultivation of cotton dramatically impoverishes the soils of the countryside… Because the immaculate flower requires astronomical quantities of water to grow… water which in Benin is sorely lacking for the inhabitants who walk for kilometers on foot to find some… In this painful context, ZACHARI fights to load the meager cotton crops with a rolling wreck… DRAMAN he is seven days a week stuck behind the wheel of a huge truck, a «TITAN». He rushes to the ground, ignoring the pedestrians to deliver the port of COTONOU as quickly as possible. Even if his meager salary forces him to live on a small business, he is not the most miserable like those they meet on the road: The farmers and their children who work only to survive, the women who break stones under the blazing sun or the dockworkers who are paid twenty cents to carry a 200 kilogram bale of cotton.
Encircled by one of the world’s largest enclosed lagoons, the 101st French department is a real cultural crossroads between Africa, the Indian Ocean and Europe. This film by Pierre Brouwers is the true-to-life portrait of an island where little villages live in pace with age-old customs, where nature reveals a surprise package of flora and fauna. A guaranteed change of scenery… — Follow us on social media:
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Europe has to be the most beautiful place in the world! From the countless medieval cities, to the jaw dropping landscapes of the Alps, Europe has it all! Ive spent the last few years traveling Europe and I want to show you my favorite places! This video was months in the making and im so excited to finally share it with you! Where is your favorite place in Europe?
Imagine you are flying above the African savannah, swimming under Antarctic ice, climbing up Amazon trees and diving the Marianna abyss.
Imagine you can suddenly see in the night, hear ultra-sounds, decode radar waves and detect electric fields.
1,2,3… you are a lion or else a dolphin, a bear or a vulture!
Using the latest technologies of image treatment and stock footage from Saint Thomas Productions’ extensive film library, this wildlife series presents an insider’s view of the predators’ life and senses. Both spectacular and entertaining, the series gives a modern outlook on nature and its most spectacular ambassadors: predators.
Each episode depicts a predator and its hunting techniques in its natural habitat. Following the principles of a food chain, the programmes jump from one animal to the next, from hunter to prey.
Poles
Mirages are shaping over the immaculate ice shelf. Close up shot of a bear inhaling the frozen air. From the bear’s point of view, we understand that… he is smelling a seal. This odour is that of a young ringed seal hidden under a thin layer of snow. A few steps and paw swipes to clear the animal and uncover a young ringed seal snack. Under the ice shelf, protected from bears by several meters of frozen ice, belugas- the white whales- are hunting halibut. In their tridimensional environment, individuals can communicate the good hunting spots while kilometres apart. The chattering of these ghost hunters is continuous. At the South Pole, leopard seals hunt in silence. But they are nonetheless excellent tacticians. Their hunt is based on their excellent sight, experience and a perfect knowledge of their prey’s calendar. When do the parent penguins go off to feed at sea, when do they return, when are the young going to take their first bath and where exactly will they get into the water? The answers to these questions are all part of the leopard seal’s hunting culture. We follow his adventures under the surface of ice-covered bays. When his hunting season comes to an end at fall, the Northern spring wakes the polar bear which goes off to hunt. Our year in the lives of Pole predators comes to a close.
Author(s): Frédéric Bernadicou et Julien Naar
Director(s): Frédéric Bernadicou et Julien Naar
Year: 2006
Producer(s): Saint Thomas Productions
Running time: 2x52mn
Format: Digital Beta Super 16 mm
Distributor(s): Saint Thomas Productions — Follow us on social media:
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Borneo has one of the last primary forests in Southeast Asia. A treasure that makes the fortune of forestry operations. Loggers and drivers come from all over Indonesia to seek the best wages in the country, slaughtering with all their might. Dangerous work carried out under extreme conditions. Massive deforestation has disfigured the region to the point of endangering the wildlife and indigenous peoples who live there. Borneo, the fourth largest island in the world, has become the symbol of this unequal struggle against the big companies which exploit its wealth to the detriment of its inhabitants, its fauna and its flora.
The Almendro Tree must be the most impressive of all the jungle giants in Costa Ricas rainforest. From root to top, this unique tree offers habitats, shelter and nourishment to an incredible number of creatures. Whenever an Almendro goes down, almost the entire community goes down with it, demonstrating the fragility of interdependent systems. A dramatic example of this principle is the Great Green Macaw. Wherever the tree disappears, the parrot no longer is found.
Experience our planets natural beauty and examine how climate change impacts all living creatures in this ambitious documentary of spectacular scope.
In this episode: Examine the fragile interdependence that exists between forests wide variety of residents, including bald eagles, hunting dogs and Siberian tigers.
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Follow the story of 65 millions years of evolution around a volcanic hotspot in the Indian Ocean. — Follow us on social media:
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Hace unos 12.000 años, el ser humano pasó de llevar una vida nómada como cazador y recolector a una vida sedentaria como agricultor. En esa época, en la Edad de Piedra, se erigieron impresionantes construcciones. ¿Cómo vivían y construían nuestros antepasados?
La segunda parte del reportaje nos conduce a sitios arqueológicos extraordinarios en Escocia, Bretaña, Austria, Malta, Turquía y Jordania. Al observar gigantescos círculos de piedra, templos y complejos de tumbas de la Edad de Piedra no sólo se plantea la pregunta de porqué se invirtió tanto esfuerzo, sino también de cómo pudieron nuestros antepasados, con las posibilidades técnicas de entonces, erigir construcciones como el cairn de Barnenez o el círculo de piedra de las islas Orcadas. ¿Cuántas personas se necesitaron para transportar piedras macizas de 20 toneladas? Un equipo dirigido por el arqueólogo experimental Wolfgang Lobisser realiza una prueba con un trineo de madera y un bloque de piedra de dos toneladas. El Neolítico fue una era bastante pacífica, al menos hasta el momento no se han encontrado pruebas de conflictos bélicos. Las invasiones y los saqueos que exterminaban pueblos enteros recién pueden detectarse en la Edad de Bronce, aunque antes ya se habían establecido las bases de muchos conflictos. Además de las obras de arte de gran significado espiritual, en el período neolítico se desarrollaron las primeras mercancías para el comercio. «El hombre neolítico fue el primero en crear una gran dependencia a los bienes materiales», dice Marion Benz de la Universidad de Friburgo, y muestra los anillos de piedra arenisca que los investigadores encontraron en grandes cantidades en el poblado neolítico Baja, en Jordania. Necesitamos conocer la historia para entender nuestro presente. Las explosiones demográficas, el consumismo y las megaciudades son, en última instancia, el legado de la era neolítica, cuando comenzó la vida sedentaria.
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