Jean-Pierre Bailly

In the heart of the Jura mountains, a call resounds through the forest. The silhouette of a Eurasian lynx creeps through the trees. A male is looking for its mate. Suddenly a call answers back. It is the beginning of the story of a lynx’s family we will follow over the seasons. While it is rare to come across this private feline, it is exceptional to discover its daily life in the wild.

After being missing for almost 80 years and despite the obstacles, the wolves are on their way back to their former territories. The documentary tells the great mystery of the dispersal of wolves: how the young wolves leave the territory where they were born and the way in which these adventurers set out to conquer new territories. For two years, Jean-Michel Bertrand conducted real research to try to understand the complex and erratic functioning of these young wolves, their encounters with their peers, and the opportunities to become a couple.

The adventures and exploits of Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867-1936), an intrepid scientist and explorer who laid the foundations of modern oceanography.

The octopus is a close cousin of the oyster and snail. And yet, even by human standards the multi-limbed creature is considered highly intelligent. From Spain to Vancouver Island to Capri, Italy, scientists are testing the brain-power of the mysterious and mythic octopus.

Sergei, de 16 años, es el hijo de Boris, el jefe del clan Batagi de criadores de renos. Galardonado con el título de pastor, con la manada más grande del clan, se une a la tribu Evenk por primera vez cuando comienzan su viaje de verano a través de los pastos de las montañas de Siberia. Como son la única fuente de ingresos de la tribu, estos renos son su orgullo y alegría y no se detendrán ante nada para protegerlos de su enemigo más amargo, el lobo.

Sunny, un huérfano adolescente, vive y trabaja con elefantes en los bosques de Tailandia. Su sueño es convertirse en un 'cornac', un conductor de elefantes, pero el problema es que pertenece a una tribu que no puede aspirar a ese puesto. Como la industria forestal cada vez está más mecanizada, Sunny y su amigo, otro 'cornac', son llevados a Bangkok donde un empresario sin escrúpulos los explota como una atracción turística.

Off The Road (directed by Laurence Petit-Jouvet): Peter Kowald on the road in the US, a road movie.

Auténticos tramperos como los de antes, tales como David Crockett, Jack London o Jeremiah Jonson, ya no existen en nuestros días. Todavía queda, sin embargo, una última alma que sigue viviendo según la antigua filosofía de los tramperos, conviviendo en armonía con la naturaleza. La ficción creada se basa en la vida de Norman (El Último trampero), tiene 50 años y vive con Kebaska, una india Nehanni. La película nos hace partícipes de la lucha y drama que supone su vida diaria, y también de las aventuras y los peligros en las que sus perros son los principales protagonistas.

German director Werner Schroeter invited his favourite opera singers to a 13th century abbey near Paris. There was no pre-planned action. There was no script, no continuity. On the other hand, there were precise constraints that provided the rules of the game: the setting, the Abbey of Royaumont, and the chosen participants. Each singer came accompanied by a person of his or her choice, and worked on an aria chosen by the director.

Nicolas Vanier undertook a 5,000-mile odyssey across frigid yet varied landscapes fom the mountains of Mongolia to Lake Baykal to the Siberian tundra. The adventure lasted 18 months, during wich Vanier and his team confronted some of the most hostile regions on the globe, finally reaching the Arctic ice cap. Throughout this amazing itinerary, only traditional mean of transportation were used to advance across the various types of difficult terrain encountered.

It is 1 p.m. on June 30, 1982, when Christophe Profit, 24, shows up at the foot of Les Drus with his pof bag, his climbing shoes and nothing else. He will try the west face of Les Drus in "solo", in the Mont Blanc massif by "Directe Américaine", 1100 meters of vertical and smooth rock. Christophe will achieve the feat of climbing the wall in free solo, without using a rope or any belaying technique. At 4:10 p.m., barely more than three hours after the start of his ascent, the new climbing star can embrace the Virgin of the Drus at the same time as the career of a high-level mountaineer. Three years later, on July 25, 1985, he climbed the north faces of the Matterhorn, the Eiger and the Jorasses in the same day. Awarded at many mountain film festivals, this great documentary is a magnificent testimony to one man's passion for climbing, the mountains and adventure.