Terre de Liens is a community movement that sees land as a communal asset. For two years Luba Vink and Aurélien Lévêque followed these activists as they attempt to move industrial farming towards ecological and traditional methods. Their documentary Changement de propriétaire focuses on the economic models that the association has invented and perfected since it began.

During the transformation of the Bois-le-Prêtre Tower in Paris by architects Lacaton & Vassal, Guillaume Meigneux recorded the desires, anxieties, hopes, enthusiasms and reluctance of local inhabitants on the subject of this renovation scheme intended to improve their daily lives. The film’s colourful testimonials and images of a range of interiors contradict the prejudice that associates high-rise estates with anonymity and uniformity: the building emerges as a true living environment that forms a setting for relationships with others and with the city at large.

From the area around Mopti, famed for their skills as fishermen, the Bozos now extract the river sand to meet the growing need for concrete in Bamako. This film follows the fortunes of Gala Sabé and depicts an uprooted generation unable to return to its traditional lifestyle and uncertain about its future.

This film was made on the coast of Tunisia and Morocco, where each year thousands of migrants risk their lives trying to reach Europe. Based on testimonials from survivors, fishermen and policemen, it pays tribute to all those who never arrived: those who drowned or died of thirst in the desert. These powerful images bring us brutally face to face with the tragic absurdity of the situation and appeal to us to take action.

The “Nan Shui Bei Diao” —literally South Water North Transfer— is the largest water transfer project in the world, taking place between southern and northern China. Following the development of this colossal project, this film maps out a land of engineers where cement covers the plains, rivers overflow, deserts become forests… and little by little voices are heard calling for justice and freedom of speech. While matter decomposes and people become increasingly alarmed, an unnatural science fiction landscape emerges.

On the road in Sicily, Benoit Felici films buildings left unfinished over the past forty years, where Nature has gradually taken over. Some are abandoned and stand oddly in the landscape; others have been renovated. Little by little, the filmmaker reflects the poetry of these modern ruins and shows the local people who have learned to lived alongside them.