Sylvain Tesson

Pierre, a famous explorer and writer, travels regularly through the world. Someday, climbing a hotel frontage while drunk, he falls from high and into a deep coma. When he awakes, he has difficulties walking but, against everyone's advices, he decides to walk through France, following forgotten pathways...

The medium that gives voice to those who have no voice is radio. In northern Iraq, seven young journalists, Muslims, Christians and Yezidis, are giving their microphones to those who want peace. They work for Radio Al-Salam, a station free from political and religious influences. In total freedom, voices are raised on the airwaves and bring back the link within a nation.

En el corazón de las tierras altas del Tíbet, el fotógrafo Vincent Munier guía al escritor Sylvain Tesson durante su búsqueda del leopardo de las nieves. Lo inicia en el delicado arte de la observación, en la interpretación de las huellas y en la paciencia necesaria para localizar a los animales. Mientras recorren las cumbres habitadas por presencias invisibles, los dos hombres entablan un diálogo sobre cuál es nuestro lugar entre los seres vivos y celebran la belleza del mundo.

Writer Sylvain Tesson accompanies the French High Moutain Military Group in their Patagonia expedition. United by the same love of moutaineering, they want to pay tribute to the Aéropostale’s heroes – Mermoz, Saint-Exupéry and Guillaumet – climbing the Fitz Roy range’s and jumping from one of its summits.

French author Sylvain Tesson pays tribute to the heroes of the Russian Revolution as he crosses the Pamir mountain range in Tajikistan, which boasts a multitude of peaks at more than 7,000m. They will have the occasion to look back on some of the major figures and events of the Revolution. Lenin Peak, Revolution Peak, Karl Marx Peak, and also the October Glacier and the Soviet Officer range – all names which evoke the Revolution in these remarkable yet little-known locations. He is accompanied by two friends, author and lover of all things Russian, Cédric Gras, and the former Soviet mountaineering instructor, Nicolay Taran. Along the way, the author and his traveling companions observe the traces left by the former USSR on daily life here, and they listen to the memories of the populations who live in the Pamirs, whether Kyrgyz nomads on the high plateaus or Ismailis in the valleys. For Sylvain Tesson, the journey will serve as a source of inspiration for his future writing.

Documentary about Sylvain Tesson's life.

At the shores of the glacial Lake Baikal, Sylvain Tesson, the Parisian adventurer, spent half a year in a weather-battered cabin, alone against the all-powerful elements of nature. Could that be the recipe for happiness?

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of "March of the Penguins".